Sentences with phrase «categorical exclusion»

He later argues that the rule's rationale «that the Montana Constitution requires categorical exclusion of religious entities from SB 410's tax credit program is in error because the tax credit envisioned by SB 410 is not a direct or indirect appropriation by the state to a religious entity.»

In addition, the Department has issued new guidance regarding the application of categorical exclusions for multi-modal projects.

For more information, also see the Department's existing NEPA implementing procedures, DOT Order 5610.1 C, and administrative record regarding the proposed new categorical exclusions.

Unfortunately, before the MMS got around to granting wind such categorical exclusions, there was that oily matter in the Gulf of Mexico.

(Sec. 1310) Revises requirements for application of categorical exclusions for multimodal projects, including acceleration of decisionmaking in environmental reviews.

Despite these reports, in 2009, the MMS granted BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling operation a «categorical exclusion» from all environmental reviews under the US National Environmental Policy Act.

In addition to the foregoing requirements, project sponsors must have circulated a draft EIS by the time it submits an application, unless the project has received either a FONSI or a Categorical Exclusion.

One DOT agency can now use the categorical exclusions of another DOT agency for these projects.

Categorical exclusions (CEs) are actions which meet the definition contained in 40 CFR 1508.4, and, based on past experience with similar actions, do not involve significant environmental impacts.

The White House in February sent out draft guidance to the Department of Interior and other government agencies urging them to reassess how they dispense «categorical exclusions» that allow many projects, including the Deepwater Horizon's ill - fated drilling effort, to avoid having to undertake detailed environmental impact reports required under the National Environmental Policy Act.

In the catastrophe's wake, it was discovered that one of the corners cut on behalf of BP was the granting of a categorical exclusion.

One of the most important suggested solutions for an improved offshore wind approval process is the granting to developers of a «categorical exclusion» from certain environmental study obligations on the grounds that such studies have been conducted time and again and new ones would only yield the same results.

«Because of the fact that BP got one of these categorical exclusions for the Deepwater Horizon operation, proposing now that offshore wind should be eligible for some categorical exclusions for certain activities [would be] bad timing,» Lanard said.

The New York Times recently shed light on yet another important aspect of gas drilling leases, that U.S. Department of Agriculture rural housing loans are being routinely granted on properties with oil and gas leases using a so - called «categorical exclusion» from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), although such exclusions are only supposed to apply to properties without environmental risks.

Goswami points to the Court's identification of the key values behind s. 2 (b) in Canadian Broadcasting Corp v Canada (AG), the search for truth, facilitating social or political participation, and individual self - fulfillment, and provides some examples of how algorithms can indeed meet these values to demonstrate that a categorical exclusion is unlikely to be warranted.