2010-07-16 Policy: Public Involvement in the Environmental Assessment Process (archived)

DOE NEPA Program History

Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance

January 24, 2018
minute read time

This Deputy Secretary of Energy Memorandum for Heads of Departmental Elements, to foster transparency and participation in DOE’s NEPA process, established a policy of making draft EAs available for public review, whenever possible, concurrent with host state/tribal review. The policy stated that “when an Office makes a draft EA available for public review, in addition to its usual manner of [making it available], the Office shall make sure that the draft EA is posted on the Department's NEPA website … before the start of the public review period.” The policy was retired after its provisions were incorporated into DOE O 451.1B, Change 3 (2012 01 19).