Lead Agency Environmental Review.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) The Agency designated as the lead agency for the purposes of this grant program, will fulfill and agree to be responsible for complying with lead agency requirements for: (1) National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) as outlined in 40 CFR 1501.5, Lead agencies; (2) National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) Section 106 review process as outlined in 36 CFR part 800.2(a)(2) Lead Federal agency; and (3) Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act as outlined in 50 CFR 402.07, Designation of lead agency. (b) All environmental findings and determinations made by the lead agency represent those of the cooperating agencies and will be completed in accordance with the procedures outlined in this section. (c) RUS will, to the extent possible and in accordance with 40 CFR 1506.2 and 7 CFR part 1970, participate with DEC, IHS, and ANTHC to cooperatively or jointly prepare environmental review documents so that one document will comply with all applicable laws. (d) For projects administered by DEC and ANTHC, RUS agrees to participate as a cooperating agency in accordance with 40 CFR 1501.6 and 7 CFR part 1970, and relies upon those agencies' procedures for implementing NEPA as further described below. (e) The lead agency will indicate that RUS is a cooperating agency in all NEPA-related notices published for the proposed action. (f) A construction grant may not be approved until all environmental findings and determinations have been made according to the following: (1) (2) (3) (g) RUS wil

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 1784.23