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title: "40 CFR §1506.10"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/section-1506.10"

title_number: "40"

volume_number: "37"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "U"

subchapter_subject: "AIR POLLUTION CONTROLS"

part_code: "1506"

part_subject: "OTHER REQUIREMENTS OF NEPA"

subpart_code: "A"

subpart_subject: "Overview and Applicability"

section_number: "1506.10"

section_subject: "Timing of agency action."

cfr_reference: "40 CFR 1506.10"

title_name: "Title 40"

title_subject: "Protection of Environment"

parts_covered: "Part 1060 to End"

revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"

publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"

contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"

publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"

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(a)The Environmental Protection Agency shall publish a notice in the Federal Register each week of the environmental impact statements filed during the preceding week. The minimum time periods set forth in this section shall be calculated from the date of publication of this notice.

(b)No decision on the proposed action shall be made or recorded under § 1505.2 by a Federal agency until the later of the following dates:

(1)Ninety (90) days after publication of the notice described above in paragraph (a) of this section for a draft environmental impact statement.

(2)Thirty (30) days after publication of the notice described above in paragraph (a) of this section for a final environmental impact statement.

(c)If the final environmental impact statement is filed within ninety (90) days after a draft environmental impact statement is filed with the Environmental Protection Agency, the minimum thirty (30) day period and the minimum ninety (90) day period may run concurrently. However, subject to paragraph (d) of this section agencies shall allow not less than 45 days for comments on draft statements.

(d)The lead agency may extend prescribed periods. The Environmental Protection Agency may upon a showing by the lead agency of compelling reasons of national policy reduce the prescribed periods and may upon a showing by any other Federal agency of compelling reasons of national policy also extend prescribed periods, but only after consultation with the lead agency. (Also see § 1507.3(d).) Failure to file timely comments shall not be a sufficient reason for extending a period. If the lead agency does not concur with the extension of time, EPA may not extend it for more than 30 days. When the Environmental Protection Agency reduces or extends any period of time it shall notify the Council.

§1506.10 - Timing of agency action.