NEPA Related Resources

General NEPA Information

• The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
• A Citizen’s Guide to the NEPA: Having your Voice Heard [PDF - 931 KB]

  This guide is designed to help citizens and organizations concerned about the environmental consequences of federal decision making to participate effectively in federal agency environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

• Collaboration in NEPA: A handbook for NEPA practitioners [PDF - 541 KB]

  This handbook introduces the NEPA practitioner and other interested parties to collaboration, outlines general principles, presents useful steps, and provides information on collaboration methods.

• Other NEPA Web sites

  This is the Council on Environmental Quality’s compilation of federal agency Web sites referencing NEPA.

Health in NEPA

• Bhatia R, Wernham A. Integrating human health into environmental impact assessment: an unrealized opportunity for environmental health and justice. Environ Health Perspect 2008;116:991–1000.

  The paper reviews the purpose and procedures of the environmental impact assessment process, current regulatory requirements for health effects analysis, and potential barriers to and opportunities for improving integration of human health concerns within the environmental impact assessment process.

• Public Health Impact Assessment in NEPA (CDC fact sheet) [PDF - 420 KB]

  This fact sheet describes CDC’s Review and Commenting Program, as part of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

• San Francisco Department of Public Health

  This site provides an overview of integrating health into environmental impact assessment, sample public health comment letters on environmental impact reports, San Francisco environmental impact reports with integrated public health analysis, and various other resources.

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