Regulation: EPA floats proposal to update NEPA rules

EPA is advancing a draft proposal to overhaul its procedures for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in order to align them with the overarching NEPA streamlining rule issued earlier this year by the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). EPA undertakes few NEPA reviews of its own -- only for certain Clean Water Act permits and grants -- and most often is tasked with assessing other agencies’ work. The title of the draft plan, sent to the...