NEPA giản quy định Các nhà phê bình có đôi khi cho rằng Đạo luật chính sách môi trường quốc gia (NEPA) là một quá trình không hiệu quả. Không hiệu quả không phải là bản địa để NEPA. Ngược lại, nguyên nhân gốc rễ của bất kỳ không hiệu quả nằm chủ yếu với các phương pháp tiếp cận được sử dụng và thiếu, hoặc không áp dụng, các công cụ hiệu quả, kỹ thuật, và cách tiếp cận để thực hiện các yêu cầu NEPA. Trong việc soạn thảo các quy định NEPA (Quy định), Hội đồng Chất lượng. | 3 NEPA Streamlining Provisions Critics have sometimes charged that the National Environmental Policy Act NEPA is an inefficient process. Inefficiency is not indigenous to NEPA. To the contrary the root causes of any inefficiency lie principally with the approaches used and lack of or failure to adopt effective tools techniques and approaches for implementing NEPA s requirements. In drafting the NEPA regulations Regulations the Council on Environmental Quality CEQ placed considerable emphasis on providing direction and methods for promoting efficiency see Chapter 2 . Yet experience clearly indicates that much of this direction often goes unheeded. In the zest to prepare bullet-proof documents insufficient attention is often given to guidance pertaining to efficiency. This chapter presents a systematic description of CEQ requirements which provides direction for efficiently implementing the NEPA process. Of special interest is a streamlining procedure interim action provision described toward the end of this chapter which allows some actions to proceed in advance of completing NEPA. MANAGING ANALYZING AND PREPARING NEPA DOCUMENTS Regulatory direction for streamlining NEPA is categorized in the following three tables Table efficiency in managing NEPA Table efficiency in performing the environmental analysis Table efficiency in preparing environmental assessments EAs and environmental impact statements EISs The primary source of regulatory direction on promoting efficiency is contained in sections reducing paperwork and reducing delay . Inspection of Table indicates many of these efficiency themes recur throughout the Regulations. Two of the most notable efficiency citations are to Implement procedures to make the NEPA process more useful to decisionmakers and the public to reduce paperwork and the accumulation of extraneous background data and to emphasize real environmental issues and alternatives. Environmental impact statements .
