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Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 12/16/1999

Emergency Watershed Protection Program

The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announces the availability of the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS), in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) for the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program. The draft PEIS assesses the potential environmental impacts of alternatives for administration of the EWP Program, which provides funding and assistance to localities requesting EWP assistance to address watershed impairments, caused by a natural disaster, which pose an immediate threat to life and property. The original PEIS for the EWP Program was prepared in 1975. NRCS has conducted a comprehensive review of the program that has resulted in changes to improve the environmental, economic, and technical soundness of activities conducted under the program. This draft PEIS supports management decisions on how best to revise the EWP Program to continue to effectively and efficiently meet EWP statutory requirements. It analyzes a range of reasonable alternatives to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and regulations while minimizing, to the greatest extent practicable, any potential adverse

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