[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 15, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 15CFR930.37]

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                  TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND FOREIGN TRADE
 
CHAPTER IX--NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT 
                               OF COMMERCE
 
PART 930_FEDERAL CONSISTENCY WITH APPROVED COASTAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart C_Consistency for Federal Agency Activities
 
Sec.  930.37  Consistency determinations and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements.

    A Federal agency may use its NEPA documents as a vehicle for its 
consistency determination or negative determination under this subpart. 
However, a Federal agency's federal consistency

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obligations under the Act are independent of those required under NEPA 
and are not necessarily fulfilled by the submission of a NEPA document. 
State agencies shall not require Federal agencies to submit NEPA 
documents as information required pursuant to Sec.  930.39. If a Federal 
agency includes its consistency determination or negative determination 
in a NEPA document, the Federal agency shall ensure that the NEPA 
document includes the information and adheres to the timeframes required 
by this subpart. Federal agencies and State agencies should mutually 
agree on how to best coordinate the requirements of NEPA and the Act.

[65 FR 77154, Dec. 8, 2000, as amended at 71 FR 827, Jan. 5, 2006]