[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 77 (Thursday, April 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21210-21211]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-9893]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Notice of Availability of a Draft Agency Handbook on the National 
Environmental Policy Act

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability of a draft agency handbook on the 
National Environmental Policy Act.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Council on Environmental Quality's Regulations 
for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of the National 
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Section 1507.3, the Bureau of 
Reclamation has prepared a handbook to provide basic guidance to its 
employees on NEPA issues. Comments on the document will be accepted.

DATES: A 60-day public review period commences with the publication of 
this notice. Comments must be submitted to Reclamation at the addresses 
provided below no later than June 19, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the NEPA Handbook should be addressed to 
the Bureau of Reclamation, Office of Policy, Attention: Dr. Darrell 
Cauley, Manager--Environmental and Planning Coordination, D-5100, 
Denver Federal Center, PO Box 25007, Denver, CO 80225-0007.
    Our practice is to make comments, including names and home 
addresses of respondents, available for public review. Individual 
respondents may request that we withhold their home address from public 
disclosure, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. There 
also may be circumstances in which we would withhold a respondent's 
identity from public disclosure, as allowable by law. If you wish us to 
withhold your name and/or address, you must state this prominently at 
the beginning of your comment. We will make all submissions from 
organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying 
themselves

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as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, 
available for public disclosure in their entirety.
    The entire document is available at http://www.usbr.gov/nepa on the 
Internet. Copies of the NEPA Handbook may also be requested from 
Theresa Taylor at the above address or via the INTERNET at 
[email protected] or by calling (303) 445-2826.
    Copies of the NEPA Handbook are available for public inspection and 
review at the following locations:
     Bureau of Reclamation, Reclamation Service Center Library, 
Building 67, Room 167, Denver Federal Center, 6th and Kipling, Denver, 
Colorado 80225; telephone: (303) 445-2072
     Natural Resources Library, U.S. Department of the 
Interior, 1849 C Street NW, Main Interior Building, Washington, DC 
20240-0001

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theresa Taylor, Bureau of Reclamation, 
Office of Policy, at (303) 445-2826.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NEPA Handbook was developed to assist 
Reclamation employees who are required to comply with the National 
Environmental Policy Act and various other environmental laws as part 
of their daily work. The document was first published in 1991. After 
Reclamation was reorganized in 1994 to reflect a decentralization of 
decision making and authority, the NEPA Handbook needed major revisions 
to reflect the reorganization and to update the content. The handbook 
was extensively revised and has gone through various stages of reviews 
both internally and with the Council on Environmental Quality. At the 
commencement of the public review, comments received will be considered 
as part of a final revision of the handbook.

    Dated: April 13, 2000.
Elizabeth Cordova-Harrison,
Deputy Director, Office of Policy.
[FR Doc. 00-9893 Filed 4-19-00; 8:45 am]
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