National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and ECR
Collaboration in NEPA: A Handbook for NEPA Practitioners
[543kb PDF, 104 pages] This handbook presents the results of research and consultations by the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
concerning the consideration of collaboration in analyses prepared under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). It is intended
for those within Federal agencies responsible for conducting NEPA reviews. It provides advice and guidance on how to engage and
collaborate with other agencies and non-federal stakeholders at various stages within NEPA process.
The handbook is the result of recommendations of the Task Force on Modernizing NEPA to the President's Council on Environmental
Quality (CEQ) issued in 2003 to encourage more effective collaboration in NEPA. It is also consistent with the recommendations of the
National Environmental Conflict Resolution Advisory Committee to the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (2005). An
interagency work group was charged by CEQ to develop and draft the handbook.
A Citizen's Guide to the NEPA - Having Your Voice Heard
The newly available guide explains the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and how it is implemented, as well as how people
outside the Federal government - individual citizens, private sector permit applicants, members of organized groups, and
representatives of Tribal, State, or local governments - can better participate in the Federal environmental impact
assessment process.
http://www.fedcenter.gov/_kd/go.cfm?destination=ShowItem&Item_ID=9044
Modernizing NEPA Implementation September 2003
This report presents the results of research and consultations by the National Environmental Policy Task Force concerning the
implementation of the environmental impact analysis requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/ntf/report/pdftoc.html
National ECR Advisory Committee Report
This report was produced by the National Environmental Conflict Resolution Advisory Committee (Committee), a federal advisory committee
chartered by the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (U.S. Institute) of the Udall Foundation. The U.S.
Institute serves as an independent, impartial federal institution to assist all parties in resolving environmental, natural resources,
and public lands conflicts where a federal agency is involved.
In 2000, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators asked the U.S. Institute to investigate "strategies for using collaboration, consensus
building, and dispute resolution to achieve the substantive goals" of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321,
et seq.) ("NEPA") and "resolve environmental policy issues..." The U.S. Institute conducted initial analytical work in response to the
Senators' inquiry, then, in 2002, created the Committee. The Committee was chartered to provide advice on future program
directives-specifically how to address its statutory mandate to assist the federal government in implementing Section 101 of NEPA
(42 U.S.C. 4331).1
The Committee conducted numerous analyses to develop objective information useful in advising the U.S. Institute on how to further
promote resolution of environmental conflicts involving federal agencies and to help the federal government implement Section 101 of
NEPA.
The U.S. Institute currently has a limited supply of printed copies of the full NECRAC Final Report. It also has a limited number of
printed summary reports that include the full report on CD. To request a printed report or CD, please e-mail your request to
usiecr@ecr.gov.
Click on the following link for an: Introduction to NECRAC Report.
Reports