Benefits of Site-wide NEPA Review

This guidance memorandum describes potential benefits of conducting a site-wide NEPA review.

Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance

December 15, 1994

This guidance memorandum describes potential benefits of conducting a site-wide NEPA review (environmental impact statement or environmental assessment). Site-wide reviews can aid the Department of Energy (DOE) in meeting its goals to streamline the NEPA process, to make that process more useful to decision makers and the public, and to reduce the time and cost required to prepare NEPA documents.

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    The purpose of this guidance memorandum is to describe potential benefits of conducting a site-wide NEPA review (environmental impact statement or environmental assessment). I believe that this information will help program and field offices prepare their annual NEPA planning summaries and their overall NEPA compliance strategies. Site-wide reviews can aid the Department of Energy (DOE) in meeting its goals to streamline the NEPA process, to make that process more useful to decision makers and the public, and to reduce the time and cost required to prepare NEPA documents