[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR8.1]

[Page 139-140]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
               CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
 
PART 8_ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF NONGOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITIES IN 
ANTARCTICA--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 8.1  Purpose.




Sec.
8.1 Purpose.
8.2 Applicability and effect.
8.3 Definitions.
8.4 Preparation of environmental documents, generally.
8.5 Submission of environmental documents.
8.6 Preliminary environmental review.
8.7 Initial environmental evaluation.
8.8 Comprehensive environmental evaluation.
8.9 Measures to assess and verify environmental impacts.
8.10 Cases of emergency.
8.11 Prohibited acts, enforcement and penalties.
8.12 Coordination of reviews from other Parties.

    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 2401 et seq., as amended, 16 U.S.C. 2403a.

    Source: 66 FR 63468, Dec. 6, 2001, unless otherwise noted.


    (a) This part is issued pursuant to the Antarctic Science, Tourism, 
and Conservation Act of 1996. As provided in that Act, this part 
implements the requirements of Article 8 and Annex I to the Protocol on 
Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 and provides 
for:
    (1) The environmental impact assessment of nongovernmental 
activities, including tourism, for which the United States is required 
to give advance notice under paragraph 5 of Article VII of the Antarctic 
Treaty of 1959; and
    (2) Coordination of the review of information regarding 
environmental impact assessment received by the United

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States from other Parties under the Protocol.
    (b) The procedures in this part are designed to: ensure that 
nongovernmental operators identify and assess the potential impacts of 
their proposed activities, including tourism, on the Antarctic 
environment; that operators consider these impacts in deciding whether 
or how to proceed with proposed activities; and that operators provide 
environmental documentation pursuant to the Act and Annex I of the 
Protocol. These procedures are consistent with and implement the 
environmental impact assessment provisions of Article 8 and Annex I to 
the Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty.