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LSO briefs committee on NEPA changes; members ask for one-page summary of Speed Act and regulatory shifts
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LSO staff reviewed NEPA history and recent rulemaking; committee members requested a one-page summary of the Speed Act/CEQ and agency rule changes and discussed litigation pressures and categorical exclusions.
The Select Federal Natural Resource Management Committee received a detailed memorandum on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and recent federal regulatory changes Wednesday, and committee members asked legislative staff for a one-page summary of ongoing federal proposals intended to speed NEPA reviews.
Talise Hansen, LSO staff attorney, summarized NEPA’s legal history and recent regulatory shifts. Hansen said NEPA was enacted in 1970 as a procedural law requiring federal agencies to analyze environmental effects of major federal actions and to prepare either an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement when effects may be significant. She summarized changes to CEQ and agency procedures since 2017, noting the Trump administration’s 2020 CEQ rules, subsequent rollbacks and adjustments under the…
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