Receiving and Responding to Public and Agency Comments
This standard operating procedure provides guidance on the public and agency comment process for the environmental review process.
General Content
Legacy ID
171
Show Effective Date
Off
Significant Regulatory Guidance
No
Scoping
This standard operating procedure provides guidance on scoping—an early and open process for determining the scope of issues to be addressed and for identifying the significant issues related to a proposed action.
Annotated Outline
This standard operating procedure provides guidance on the development of annotated outlines, which can be used to create the framework for the environmental document.
Review and Distribution of Environmental Assessments
This standard operating procedure provides guidance for the review and processing of environmental assessments for actions in which the significance of environmental impacts is not clearly established.
Managing Content, Review, and Distribution of Environmental Impact Statements
This standard operating procedure provides guidance on the drafting and processing of environmental impact statements required for This standard operating procedure provides any action that significantly affects the quality of the human (including natural) environment. This SOP also...
Notice of Intent
This standard operating procedure provides guidance on the preparation of a notice of intent (NOI), which announces that FTA and other lead agencies intend to prepare an environmental impact statement.
Alternatives
This standard operating procedure provides guidance on the identification, development, and evaluation of alternatives in the environmental review process.
Purpose and Need
This standard operating procedure provides guidance on the purpose and need statements, which provide the rationale and justification for undertaking a major Federal action and forms the basis for the range of alternatives to be studied in the environmental document.
Early Scoping
This standard operating procedure provides guidance on early scoping, an optional step in the public planning and environmental processes that precedes formal NEPA scoping.
Determining Class of Action
This standard operating procedure provides guidance for the earliest phase of the environmental review process for FTA projects.