CEQ Proposes Comprehensive Changes to NEPA Regulations

National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations ...

On June 29, 2021, CEQ issued an interim final rule to amend the requirement in 40 CFR 1507.3(b) (2020) that agencies propose changes to existing ...

CEQ NEPA Rulemaking - National Environmental Policy Act

CEQ promulgated its NEPA regulations in 1978, with typographical amendments in 1979 and amendments to one provision in 1986. CEQ revised these regulations in ...

National Environmental Policy Act Implementing Regulations ...

This proposed rule would update the regulations to address how agencies should implement NEPA consistent with the amendments made by the FRA. B.

Key Changes in CEQ's Phase 2 Regulations Implementing NEPA

On May 1, 2024, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published its long-awaited final Phase 2 rule, revising the agency's ...

CEQ Finalizes NEPA Phase Two Rulemaking - Perkins Coie

In the Final Rule, CEQ adopted its proposal to codify agency NEPA practice with respect to studying climate change-related effects.

Council on Environmental Quality Substantially Rewrites NEPA ...

The Phase II regulations result in a comprehensive overhaul of NEPA. The CEQ has made fundamental changes to the process for compliance, scope ...

Phase 2 Revisions to U.S. National Environmental Policy Act ...

Expanded NEPA review, which CEQ anticipates will ensure more fully informed decision-making with regard to reasonably foreseeable environmental ...

NEPA Modernization – The White House

On July 15, 2020, CEQ announced its final rule modernizing its regulations to streamline the development of infrastructure projects and promote better decision ...

CEQ Completes NEPA Overhaul with Final Phase 2 Regulations

Under the new rules, agencies will need to evaluate the climate change and environmental justice impacts of their proposed actions, and take ...

CEQ Proposes Extensive Re-write of NEPA Regulations - Baker Botts

CEQ Proposes Extensive Re-write of NEPA Regulations: Biden Administration Seeks to Rollback Trump-Era Changes, Spotlight Climate and EJ Concerns ...

Biden Administration Adopts Comprehensive NEPA Regulations

On May 4, 2024, CEQ published its “Phase 2 Rule,” at 89 Fed. Reg. 35,442. This final rule makes several important changes, including: - “Action- ...

Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Reforms to Modernize ...

In 2022, CEQ finalized a targeted rule that restored three basic elements of the NEPA regulations, including a reaffirmation that federal ...

Council on Environmental Quality Proposes Phase Two Revision to ...

The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has proposed further amendments to its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing regulations.

The White House Continues to Advance NEPA Reform with CEQ's ...

This proposed rulemaking by CEQ is Phase 2 of the agency's amendments to NEPA regulations. CEQ issued a Phase 1 final rule on 20 April 2022 ...

Council on Environmental Quality Publishes Phase 2 NEPA Rule

On May 1, 2024, the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published its Bipartisan Permitting Reform Implementation Rule (Rule) ...

CEQ Finalizes "Phase 2" Revisions to NEPA Implementing ...

The Council on Environmental Quality (“CEQ”) is tasked with issuing National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) regulations to guide federal ...

White House Council on Environmental Quality Proposes “Phase 2 ...

As CEQ frames it, the proposed rule aims to promote efficiency and regulatory certainty, full and fair public involvement, and sound decision ...

CEQ Proposes Comprehensive Changes to NEPA Regulations

Next Steps. CEQ announced that it will be will be accepting comments for 60 days—until March 10, 2020. Upon close of the comment period, CEQ ...

CEQ Adopts Phase Two NEPA Regulations to Implement Permitting ...

The CEQ received approximately 540 unique substantive comments on the Phase Two Rule Proposal and made some responsive changes in the Phase Two ...

Special Environmental Assessment July 2023

10. CEQ is now proposing additional changes to better align the regulations with CEQ's extensive experience implementing NEPA; CEQ's perspective on how NEPA can ...