Agencies Sign MOU To Streamline NEPA Reviews For Infrastructure Projects

摘要

The White House has released a long-awaited memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by EPA and 11 other agencies that seeks to limit National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews to two years and to assign a "lead agency" to each review in order to give it greater authority than in the past to direct the analysis.The April 9 MOU, follows up on a list of actions the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released last September to "enhance and modernize the NEPA review process," as well as an Aug. 15 executive order on streamlining NEPA.