FSA environmental policy.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 7

(a) FSA will: (1) Use all practical means to protect and, where possible, improve the quality of the human environment and avoid or minimize any adverse environmental effects of FSA actions; (2) Ensure protection of basic resources, including important farmlands and forestlands, prime rangelands, wetlands, floodplains, and other protected resources. Consistent with Departmental Regulations and related Executive Orders, it is FSA policy not to approve or fund proposed actions that, as a result of their identifiable impacts, direct, indirect, or cumulative, would lead to or accommodate either the conversion of these land uses or encroachment upon them. (3) Ensure that the requirements of NEPA and other State and national environmental policies designed to protect and manage impacts on the human environment are addressed: (i) As required by 40 CFR 1501.2, at the earliest feasible stage in the planning of any FSA action, (ii) Concurrently and in a coordinated manner, (iii) During all stages of the decision making process, (iv) Using professional and scientific integrity in their discussions and analyses, identifying applicable methodologies, and explaining the use of the best available information, and (v) In consultation with all interested parties, including Federal, State, and Tribal governments; (4) As appropriate, make environmental review available to the public through various means, which can include, but are not limited to: Posting on the National FSA Web site or a State

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 7:§ 799.2