U.S. Department of Energy
National Environmental Policy Act Compliance Guide

Preface

This National Environmental Policy Act Compliance Guide is a three-volume compendium of electronic files of laws, executive orders, regulations, policies, guidance, and other information. The NEPA Compliance Guide was prepared by the Department of Energy (DOE) to assist its NEPA practitioners.

The NEPA Compliance Guide contains:  

Volume 1        General NEPA References
Part 1. Laws
Part 2. Executive Orders Concerning Environmental Matters
Part 3. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Regulations
Part 4. CEQ Guidance
Part 5. Policies from Other Federal Agencies

Volume 2       Department of Energy NEPA Regulations and Guidance
Part 1. Regulations, Orders, and Policy
Part 2. Guidance on NEPA Document Preparation
Part 3. Guidance on Site-wide NEPA Reviews
Part 4. Guidance on Public Participation
Part 5. Guidance on Other Aspects of the NEPA Process

Volume 3        Related Environmental Review Requirements
This volume provides regulations for environmental review and consultation requirements – concerning Air Quality, Biota, Cultural Resources, and Land use and Special Land and Water Designations – that should to the fullest extent possible be conducted concurrently with and integrated with the NEPA process.

The Department of Energy has published the NEPA Compliance Guide on compact disk and posted on the DOE NEPA Web site at www.eh.doe.gov/nepa/tools/guidance/preface.html. This preface links to:

Printer-friendly Table of Contents:  This “Companion to Compact Disk” is a pdf file of this preface and the detailed contents of the three volumes.

Content Documents:  This detailed table of contents provides hyperlinks to the cited documents.

To request additional copies of the NEPA Compliance Guide disk, send complete mailing address to askNEPA@eh.doe.gov.