43 U.S.C. § 2006: Environmental impact…

Summary

Federal agencies that must prepare an environmental impact statement under section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) for a proposed crude oil transportation system must use, as much as is practical and allowed by NEPA, relevant data, studies, and findings already prepared by other Federal or State agencies. All such environmental impact statements had to be finished, put out for public review and comment, updated if needed, and sent to the President and the Council on Environmental Quality by December 1, 1978. If an EIS was filed under section 2004(2) of this title, those steps could be done up to 60 days after December 1, 1978. After the Council on Environmental Quality receives one of these EISs, it must promptly send the President a report with the Council’s opinion on the statement and related environmental matters.

Title 43, §2006

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(a)Preparation of environmental impact statements

Any Federal agency required under section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332) to issue an environmental impact statement concerning a proposed crude oil transportation system eligible for consideration under this chapter shall, in preparing such statement, utilize, to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with such Act [42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.], appropriate data, analyses, conclusions, findings, and decisions regarding environmental impacts developed or made by any other Federal or State agency.

(b)Filing of environmental impact statements

On or before December 1, 1978, all environmental impact statements concerning proposed crude oil transportation systems eligible for consideration under this chapter and required under section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [42 U.S.C. 4332] shall be completed, made available for public review and comment, revised to the extent appropriate in light of such comment, and submitted to the President and the Council on Environmental Quality; except that in the case of any environmental impact statement concerning any crude oil transportation system which is eligible for consideration and which was filed under section 2004(2) of this title, such actions may be taken not later than 60 days after December 1, 1978.

(c)Report of Council on Environmental Quality

Promptly after receiving an environmental impact statement referred to in subsection (b) for a crude oil transportation system, the Council on Environmental Quality shall submit to the President a report on the Council’s opinion concerning such statement and concerning other matters related to the environmental impact of such system.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Such Act, referred to in subsec. (a), means the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, Pub. L. 91–190, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 852, which is classified generally to chapter 55 (§ 4321 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 4321 of Title 42 and Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Definitions The definition of “State agency” in section 2602 of Title 16, Conservation, applies to this section.

§2006 Environmental Impact Statements