Chapter 9: Preparing an Environmental Impact Statement 

Section 9.1: Preparing to Write an EIS

• BLM Land Use Planning Handbook H-1601-1 (PDF)
   
• Examples of a non-LUP Prep Plan and an LUP or EIS Prep Plan
   
• 40 CFR 1506.6(b)
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 34a
   
• Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972 (FACA) (PDF)
   
• 40 CFR 1508.22
   
• Examples of an NOI
   
• Example of an NOI That Also Includes a Call for Nominations for Oil and Gas
   
• 40 CFR 1501.7
   
• Example of a Scoping Report

Section 9.2: EIS Format

• 40 CFR 1502.11
   
• Example of a Dear Reader Letter
   
• 40 CFR 1502.12
   
• 40 CFR 1502.16(c)
   
• 40 CFR 1506.2(d)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.25(b)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.25
   
• 40 CFR 1506.2(b)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.14
   
• 40 CFR 1502.14(a)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.14(d)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.14(f)
   
• 516 DM 11.5
   
• 40 CFR 1502.14(e)
   
• NEPA Sec. 102(2)(C)(iii) (External Website)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.14(c)
   
• 43 CFR 1610.4-7
   
• 516 DM 4.10(b)(3) (Superseded)
    
• Fort Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 4c
   
• 40 CFR 1506.2(b)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.16
   
• 40 CFR 1508.25(c)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.16
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 19b
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 19a
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 5b
   
• Copy of H-8120-1 (Tribal Consultation Under Cultural Resources) (PDF)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.10(h)
   
• 40 CFR 1502.17
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 26a/26b

Section 9.3: Issuing the Draft EIS

• 40 CFR 1506.6(b)
   
• BLM Land Use Planning Handbook H-1601-1 (PDF)
   
• 40 CFR 1503.1
   
• Sample NOAs for Draft and Final EISs
   
• 516 DM 4.26 (Superseded)
   
• Standard Distribution of EISs to Other Interior and Federal Agencies
   
• 40 CFR 1505.5(f)
   
• 455 DM 1

Section 9.4: The Final EIS

• 40 CFR 1503.4
   
• Examples of Abbreviated EISs

Section 9.5: Supplements to Draft and Final EISs

• 40 CFR 1502.9 (c)
   
• 516 DM 4.5(B) (Superseded)
   
• 40 CFR 1506.6(f)

Section 9.6: Issuing the Final EIS

• 40 CFR 1506.6(b)
   
• BLM Land Use Planning Handbook H-1601-1 (PDF)
   
• 516 DM 4.19(A) (Superseded)

Section 9.7: Issuing the Record of Decision

• 40 CFR 1505.2
   
• E.O.11988 (PDF)
   
• E.O.11990 (PDF)
   
• 40 CFR 1506.1
   
• 40 CFR 1506.10(b)
   
• 40 CFR 1506.6(b)
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 34a
   
• 40 CFR 1506.10(b)(2)
   
• Example of a ROD
   
• 40 CFR 1505.2(a)
   
• 40 CFR 1505.2(b)
   
• Forty Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ's NEPA Regulations, Question 6a