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General NEPA News
U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Impact Statements and Environmental Assessments Status Chart (06/16/2010)
U.S. Department of Energy Schedules of Key Environmental Impact Statements (06/14/2010)
Guidance on EIS Review and Recovery Act Loan Guarantee Applications (06/2010)
Lessons Learned Cumulative Index (06/02/2010)
June 2010 Lessons Learned Quarterly Report (06/2010)
Guidance on DOE’s categorical exclusion (CX) online posting policy has been revised (Question 12) to state that CX determinations should remain online for at least three years. Implementation Guidance for the DOE Policy on Documentation and online Posting of Categorical Exclusion Determinations: NEPA Process Transparency and Openness (Rev. 1 -- 5/25/2010)
Council on Environmental Quality Memorandum for Heads of Federal Departments and Agencies--Emergencies and the National Environmental Policy Act (05/12/2010)
Categorical Exclusions
CX Determination Database (05/27/2010)
Raw Dataset -- CX Database (05/27/2010)
Latest Notices
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and To Conduct Public Scoping Meetings, and Notice of Floodplains and Wetlands Involvement; Champlain Hudson Power Express, Inc. (DOE/EIS-0447) (06/18/10)
Notice of Extension of Public Comment Period for the Proposed Keystone XL Pipeline Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Notice of Additional Public Comment Meetings (DOE/EIS-0433) (06/11/2010)
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement and Potential Floodplain and Wetlands Involvement for the American Electric Power Service Corporations Mountaineer Commercial Scale Carbon Capture and Storage Project, Mason County, WV , (DOE/EIS-0445) (06/07/2010)
Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for Texas Clean Energy Project, Ector County, TX (DOE/EIS-0444) (06/02/2010)
EPA Notice of Availability of the Deer Creek Station Energy Facility Project Final Environmental Impact Statement, Brookings County, SD (DOE/EIS-0415) (05/ 2010)
EPA Notice of Availability of the Whistling Ridge Energy Project Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Skamania County, WA (DOE/EIS-0419)(05/2010)
EPA Notice of Availability of the Kemper County IGCC Final Environmental Impact Statement, Kemper County, MS (DOE/EIS-0409) (05/21/2010)
Notice of Availability of the Rocky Flats Surface Water Configuration Draft Environmental Assessment (04/30/2010)
Latest Documents
Draft Environmental Assessment of the University of Delaware Lewes Campus onsite Wind Energy Project (06/2010)
Final Environmental Assessment for Department of Energy Loan Guarantee to Red River Environmental Products, LLC for Construction and Start-Up of an Activated Carbon Manufacturing in Red River Parish, Louisiana (06/2010)
Finding of No Significant Impact for Department of Energy Loan Guarantee to Kahuku Wind Power, LLC for Construction of the Kahuku Wind Power Facility in Kahuku, O'Ahu, Hawaii (05/27/2010)
Finding of Significant Impact for the Environmental Assessment for the U.S. Receipt and Storage of Gap Material-Plutonium (05/26/2010)
Final Environmental Assessment Addressing the Conveyance and Transfer of the Two Land Tracts Pursuant to Public Law 111-11, Section 13005 (05/2010)
Final Environmental Assessment for Compact Power, Inc. Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative Application, Holland, Michigan (05/2010)
Kemper County IGCC Final Environmental Impact Statement (05/2010)
Environmental Assessment for Closure of Nonradioactive Dangerous Waste Landfill (NRDWL) & Solid Waste Landfill (SWL), Hanford Site, Richland, Washington (05/2010)
Environmental Assessment for Blue Mountain Geothermal Development Project, Humboldt and Pershing Counties, Nevada (12/2007) (DOE adopted BLM’s EA and issued a Finding of No Significant Impact on 4/26/10)
Draft for Pre-Approval Environmental Assessment for Parker-Planet Tap 69-kV Transmission Line Rebuild, Upgrade, and Right-of-Way Action (05/2010)
Final Environmental Assessment for Department of Energy Loan Guarantee for Abengoa Solar's Solana Concentrating Solar Power Facility near Gila Bend, Arizona (05/2010)
