Current Developments

• CEQ Modernization Efforts
• NEPA's 40th Anniversary
• New Agency NEPA Procedures
• EIS Filings

CEQ Publications

• Citizens Guide to NEPA
• Collaboration Handbook
• NEPA & Environmental Management Systems
• Cumulative Effects
• Incorporating Biodiversity
• Modernizing NEPA Implementation
• NEPA Effectiveness Study

Welcome

Signed into law by President Richard Nixon on January 1, 1970, NEPA set forth a bold new vision for America. Acknowledging the decades of environmental neglect that had significantly degraded the nation's landscape and damaged the human environment, the law was established to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
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The Council on Environmental Quality

Congress established the Council on Environmental Quality within the Executive Office of the President as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). In enacting NEPA, Congress recognized that nearly all federal activities affect the environment in some way and mandated that before federal agencies make decisions, they must consider the effects of their actions on the quality of the human environment.
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Success Stories and NEPA Benefits

Other NEPA Information

• Environmental Impact Data
• Environmental Impact Statements
• Environmental Justice and NEPA
• NEPA Non-Governmental Organizations
• International Environmental Impact Assessment
• NEPA Training
• Alternative Arrangements
• Former Referrals
• Tribal Information
  • CEQ Guidance and Executive Orders Related to Native Americans
  • Department of Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs