[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: 40CFR1508.23]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

               CHAPTER V--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

PART 1508_TERMINOLOGY AND INDEX--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  1508.23  Proposal.



    Proposal exists at that stage in the development of an action when 

an agency subject to the Act has a goal and is actively preparing to 

make a decision on one or more alternative means of accomplishing that 

goal and the effects can be meaningfully evaluated. Preparation of an 

environmental impact statement on a proposal should be timed (Sec.  

1502.5) so that the final statement may be completed in time for the 

statement to be included in any recommendation or report on the 

proposal. A proposal may exist in fact as well as by agency declaration 

that one exists.