August 2, 2023
On July 31, the Council on Environmental Quality released a proposed rule to implement Phase 2 of revisions to the National Environmental Policy Act implementing regulations. The proposal makes wide-ranging changes to the rules for federal agencies conducting the environmental review and permitting process.
Disappointingly, the proposed rule reverses critical streamlining provisions of the ABC-supported 2020 NEPA rule, including by doing the following:
On the other hand, the proposed rule would enact much-needed reforms supported by ABC in the Fiscal Responsibility Act, including:
The rule follows the Phase 1 final rule issued in April 2022, which began the process of undoing key aspects of the ABC-supported 2020 NEPA revisions.
ABC staff are continuing to review the proposal and plan to submit comments by the deadline of Sept. 29.
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