[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 15]
[Revised as of January 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR3407.1]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XXXIV--COOPERATIVE STATE RESEARCH, EDUCATION, AND EXTENSION 
                   SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3407_IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 3407.1  Background and purpose.

    (a) The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended 
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) establishes national policies and goals for the 
protection of the human environment. Section 102(2) of NEPA directs all 
Federal agencies to give appropriate consideration to the environmental 
consequences of proposed actions in their decisionmaking and to prepare 
detailed environmental statements on major Federal actions significantly 
affecting the quality of the human environment.

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    (b) The purpose of this regulation is to supplement the regulations 
for implementation of NEPA established by the Council on Environmental 
Quality (CEQ) and codified at 40 CFR parts 1500-1508, as adopted by USDA 
in 7 CFR part 1b.
    (c) Unless otherwise noted, parenthetical citations throughout this 
part refer to the CEQ regulations.