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Figure 6.3 Decision flowchart
for environmental impact
statements at the National
Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
GRC NEPA DOCUMENTATION PROCESS
Project/Program/Action/Activity
Initiation
Conceptual/Study
Phase
Prepare NEPA Checklist, Form C-150
Perform
Environmental
Analysis/
Prepare REC
File Checklist/REC
for Record
Significant
Impact(s)
No Impact and/
or CatEx Applies
Possible
Significant Impact(s)
Impacts mitigated/
Further Define
Environmental
Requirements
File Checklist/REC
for Record
Categorically
Excluded
Significant Impact(s)
Possible
Detailed Drawing
and
Definition Phase
Prepare Draft
Environmental
Impact
Statement
Prepare
Draft Environmental
Assessment
Significant
Impact(s)
No Significant Impact
Prepare FONSI
NASA HQ/Intergovernmental/Public
Review Process
Comments
No
Comments
Prepare Response to Comments and
Final EA/EIS
Publish FONSI/ROD
Implementation Phase
Proceed with Project
key advocates for the need for a national environmental policy, Lynton Caldwell,
is said to have referred to this as the federal agencies using EIS to “make an
environmental silk purse from a mission-oriented sow's ear!” 31
The courts have ruled clearly and strongly that federal agencies must take
NEPA seriously. Some of the aspects of the “give and take” and evolution of
federal agencies' growing commitment to environmental protection were the
acceptance of the need for sound science in assessing environmental conditions
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