Chapter 6: NEPA Analysis

 Section 6.2: Purpose and Need

• 40 CFR 1502.13
   
• 40 CFR 1508.9(b)
   
• Examples of Purpose and Need Statements
   
• Examples of Combined and Separated Purpose and Need Statements
   
• 40 CFR 1508.15

 Section 6.3: Scoping

• 40 CFR 1501.7
   
• 40 CFR 1501.7(a)(2)

 Section 6.4: Issues

• 40 CFR 1501.7(a)(3)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.1
   
• 40 CFR 1502.2(b)
     
• 40 CFR 1500.1(b)
   
• Examples of Issues Identified for Analysis
   
• Example of How Issues Not Analyzed Can Be Treated in a NEPA Document

 Section 6.5 Proposed Action

• 40 CFR 1508.23
   
• Example Descriptions of Proposed Actions
   
• 40 CFR 1502.14(b)
     
• 40 CFR 1508.25(a)(1)
   
• 40 CFR 1508.25(a)(i,ii,iii)
   
• 40 CFR 1508.25(b)
   
• 40 CFR 1508.25(c)
   
• 40 CFR 1508.25
   
• 40 CFR 1500.1(c)
   
• 40 CFR 1508.18
   
• 40 CFR 1508.23
   
• 40 CFR 1508.7
   
• 40 CFR 1508.25(a)(2)
   
• 40 CFR 1508.25(a)(3)

 Section 6.6: Alternatives Development

• 40 CFR 1502.14
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 1b
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 2a
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 2b
   
• Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (PDF) (See Sections 101 and 104)
   
• Health Forests Restoration Act Interim Field Guide (PDF)
    
• 40 CFR 1502.14(d)
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 3
   
• Examples of No Action Alternatives
   
• 40 CFR 1502.14
   
• Examples of Alternatives Considered but Eliminated from Detailed Analysis

 Section 6.7: Affected Environment and Use of Relevant Data

• 40 CFR 1508.14
   
• 40 CFR 1502.22
   
• 40 CFR 1502.15
   
• 40 CFR 1502.22(b)

 Section 6.8: Environmental Effects

• 40 CFR 1500.4(c)
   
• 40 CFR 1500.4(g)
   
• 40 CFR 1500.5(d)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.16
   
• 40 CFR  1508.8
   
• 40 CFR 1508.25(c)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.16(c)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.1
   
• Examples of How IBLA Has Dealt with the Concept of "Hard Look"
   
• 40 CFR 1502.24
   
• 40 CFR 1502.22
   
• Examples of Reasonably Foreseeable Development Scenarios 
   
• 40 CFR 1508.8
   
• 40 CFR 1508.8(a)
   
• 40 CFR 1508.8(b)
   
• Examples of Direct and Indirect Effects
   
• 40 CFR 1508.7
   
• CEQ, "Considering Cumulative Effects Under the National Environment Policy Act" (External Website)
   
• List of "Principles of Cumulative Effects Analysis"
   
• "Steps in Cumulative Effects Analysis to be Addressed in Each Component of Environmental Impact Assessment"
   
• CEQ Guidance on the Consideration of Past Actions in Cumulative Effects Analysis (PDF)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.22
   
• Example of Cumulative Effects Analysis
   
• 40 CFR 1508.20
   
• 40 CFR 1505.2(c)
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 19b
   
• BLM Handbook of Socio-Economic Mitigation

 Section 6.9: Public Involvement and Responding to Comments

• 40 CFR 1506.6(a)
    
• 40 CFR 1506.6(c)
   
• 455 DM 1
   
• 40 CFR 1506.6
   
• 40 CFR 1503.4
   
• 516 DM 4.19(A) and (B) (Superseded)
   
• Examples of Substantive Comments
   
• Examples of Responses to Substantive Comments
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 29a
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 29b