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A Functional Approach to Risks and Uncertainties Under NEPA


A Functional Approach to Risks and Uncertainties Under NEPA

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) mandates that federal agencies evaluate the environmental impacts of their proposed actions.

A Functional Approach to Risks and Uncertainties Under NEPA

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) mandates that federal agencies evaluate the environmental impacts of their proposed actions. This re-.

A Functional Approach to Risks and Uncertainties Under NEPA

Considerable controversy exists regarding how agencies should address such risks and uncertainties. Current NEPA law adopts a largely ad hoc approach that lacks ...

Monitoring: The missing piece: A critique of NEPA monitoring

While NEPA legislation recommends monitoring of project activities, this activity is not mandated, and in those situations where it has been incorporated, the ...

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Full-Text Articles in Law. Federal Environmental Review Requirements Other Than Nepa ... A Functional Approach To Risks And Uncertainties Under Nepa, Todd ...

Confronting Uncertainty under NEPA - Search eLibrary :: SSRN

Quantifying risks with confidence is often difficult. For the past thirty years, agencies and courts have struggled with the treatment of ...

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) at the NRC.

Passed by the U.S. Congress in 1969 and signed into law in January 1970 by President Nixon, it established (1) a national environmental policy ...

NEPA and Transportation Decisionmaking Questions and Answers ...

The resources subject to a cumulative impact assessment should be determined on a case-by-case basis early in the NEPA process, generally as part of early ...

The Risk in Discretion: Substantive NEPA's Significance

Aagaard, A Functional Approach to Risks and Uncertainties Under NEPA, 1. MICH. J. ENVTL. & ADMIN. L. 87, 95–102 (2012); Mattix & Becker, supra note 92, at ...

The 'No-Alternative Scenario' in the Alternative Analysis of NEPA

A Functional Approach to Risks and Uncertainties Under NEPA. Mich. J. Envtl ... The Overlooked Role of the National Environmental Policy Act in.

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Environmental Law Forum, March 29, 2012. A Functional Approach to Risks and Uncertainties under NEPA, Environmental Law and Policy. Program Speaker Series ...

Recommendations for the Preparation of Environmental ...

Accident analyses in NEPA documents should estimate the magnitude of risk (for ... • Use a bounding approach when many uncertainties prevent a more realistic ...

NEPA and Scientific Uncertainty: Using the Precautionary Principle ...

This Note investigates the issues and ramifications of scientific uncertainty in NEPA litigation and suggests a method of resolution that stays true to the ...

Collaboration in NEPA - National Environmental Policy Act

This approach has been used successfully in many NEPA processes. In the ... committee in relation to the function the committee is to perform. 3 ...

National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations ...

... in effect would still result in a functional NEPA review process. This approach to severability is the same as the approach that CEQ took ...

The 'No-Alternative Scenario' in the Alternative Analysis of NEPA

It is most often incomplete and there is a need to review the standards of impact assessment procedures that help preserve environmental integrity among ...

nepaand uncertainty in low-risk, high-impact scenarios:nuclear ...

NEPAAND UNCERTAINTY IN LOW-RISK,. HIGH-IMPACT SCENARIOS:NUCLEAR ENERGY ... NEPA has not actually provided clear guidance on how to approach situations ...

DOI Adaptive Management Technical Guide

An adaptive approach provides a framework for making good decisions in the face of critical uncertainties, and a formal process for reducing uncertainties so ...

Report - Considering Cumulative Effects Under NEPA

The diversity of proposed federal actions and the environments in which they occur make it difficult to develop or recommend a single method or approach to ...

National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations ...

It establishes a framework for agencies to ground decisions in sound science and recognizes that the public may have important ideas and ...