MNRG - 2005 Cumulative Impacts Conference
Resources for Cumulative Impact Analysis - NEPA Web links
The following sites are the most comprehensive, helpful, and useful for NEPA, environment, regulatory, and governmental (Federal, state, local, and Tribal) information and links.
FirstGov
Links for almost anything you would need for Federal, state, and local government, tribal governments, the three branches of the Federal government, and supporting organizations, as well as your needs as an agency employee. It has sections for citizens, business and non-profit organizations, Federal employees, and government to government. "A-Z index of agencies" is an extremely comprehensive database, including links to the home pages of Federal agencies, states, Tribal governments, US territories, various commissions and committees, the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Library of Congress (including a link to "Thomas," see below), the overarching link for state and local governments by state, the Supreme Court (which includes links to opinions, oral arguments, briefs, and calendar). The site also has agency cross-portals alphabetically. This should be your first source.
Library of Congress
The website for the Library of Congress. From this site, you can access everything having to do with the legislative branch, including recent bills, the Congressional Record, votes, House and Senate committees and directories, various Congressional internet services, and links to the Code of Federal Regulations and the U.S. Code for laws. It also has links for State and local government home pages.
Council on Environmental Quality
www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/
Comprehensive site for links to all issues related to CEQ, the President's
environmental initiatives, and environmental agencies. This
is a White House based site, and has links to the NEPA task force, the "Final
Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility,
and Integrity of Information Disseminated by the Council on Environmental
Quality," Freedom of Information Act regulations, and links to Department
of Interior, Department of Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, National
Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of State, Department
of Agriculture, and Department of Justice. It also links to NEPAnet,
described below, which is particularly helpful.
NEPA Net CEQ Task Force
ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/nepanet.htm
This site focuses on NEPA. It has NEPA and the CEQ implementing regulations, all the CEQ guidance memos, CEQ studies and reports, Federal NEPA contacts by name and e-mail, state information, including which ones have "little NEPAs", and points of contact and pertinent state associations. It also has Tribal web sites and links to treaties and Tribal codes and constitutions. It has Federal agency NEPA web sites and identifies each agency's NEPA regulations/procedures by at least their CFR; some are even linked. Most interesting is a page that links to " environmental impact analysis data links" (including models and databases) which are annotated as to their content and helpfulness. There are numerous databases for agriculture, endangered species, energy, hydrologic, meteorologic, pollution prevention, socioeconomic, spatial, wetlands state and regional, and international, as well as links to hot list pages and search tools.
NEPA Blog
which has updates on recent NEPA-pertinent news and actions, including EPA comments on draft and final EISs and EPA-published NOIs. It also links to court decisions and recent and major NEPA cases, the Federal register, and NEPAnet.