[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: 40CFR1508.4]



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                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT

 

               CHAPTER V--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

 

PART 1508_TERMINOLOGY AND INDEX--Table of Contents

 

Sec.  1508.4  Categorical exclusion.



    Categorical exclusion means a category of actions which do not 

individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human 

environment and which have been found to have no such effect in 

procedures adopted by a Federal agency in implementation of these 

regulations (Sec.  1507.3) and for which, therefore, neither an 

environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is 

required. An agency may decide in its procedures or otherwise, to 

prepare environmental assessments for the reasons stated in Sec.  1508.9 

even though it is not required to do so. Any procedures under this 

section shall provide for extraordinary circumstances in which a 

normally excluded action may have a significant environmental effect.