[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 40, Volume 31]

[Revised as of July 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 40CFR1508.14]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

               CHAPTER V--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

PART 1508_TERMINOLOGY AND INDEX--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  1508.14  Human environment.



    Human environment shall be interpreted comprehensively to include 

the natural and physical environment and the relationship of people with 

that environment. (See the definition of ``effects'' (Sec.  1508.8).) 

This means that economic or social effects are not intended by 

themselves to require preparation of an environmental impact statement. 

When an environmental impact statement is prepared and economic or 

social and natural or physical environmental effects are interrelated, 

then the environmental impact statement will discuss all of these 

effects on the human environment.