Today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and a coalition of partners filed a lawsuit challenging new National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) regulations issued earlier this month. Signed into law on January 1, 1970, Congress established NEPA to ensure that federal agencies consider...
Editor's Note: Comments are no longer being accepted on the new rules for NEPA. You can read the National Trust's comments which were submitted March 10 . In January, the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the nation’s foremost environmental protection law, marked its 50 th ...
Editor's Note : With the closure of this comment period, the National Trust submitted the following letter on the proposed CEQ Regulations. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) recently published an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register, requesting...
A special National Park Service Supplement to Preservation News (a National Trust publication) published in 1986. #ForumJournal #JournalEnhancedContent #NEPA #Legal
NHPA20thretrospective.pdf
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321-4375, provides a significant opportunity to affect U.S. Government decision making that could harm the environment – including both natural and physical resources such as sacred, cultural and historic sites National Environmental...
A collection of statutes and regulations have been adopted at the federal level which address government activities and policies regarding historic and archeological resources. Federal Preservation Laws A collection of statutes and regulations have been adopted at the federal level which...
Primary federal law requiring consideration of potential impacts of major federal actions on the environment, including historic and cultural resources. Source: Miller, Julia H. A Layperson’s Guide to Historic Preservation Law: A Survey of Federal, State, and Local Laws Governing Historic...
Legislation that has passed both houses of Congress and has been signed by the president or passed over his veto, thus becoming law. Source : Montgomery, Susan West. A Blueprint for Lobbying . Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2002. #NHPA #election #Lobbying ...
In 2010, the National Trust for Historic Preservation commissioned a detailed study by Leslie Barras, a lawyer and consultant on issues relating to environmental and historic preservation advocacy and compliance. The report, entitled Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act: Back...
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Section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act #Legal #NEPA
NEPA-Section-102.pdf