Review of Non-Interior Actions

Requirements for Submitting Non-Interior Environmental Documents for Department of the Interior Review

The Office of Environmental Policy and Compliance (OEPC) provides guidance and resources to Interior bureaus and offices on reviewing non-Interior actions through it’s Environmental Memoranda series, along with other guidance documents.  The following documents provide information on the Department’s review of external agencies’ environmental documents.

Overall Guidance on Reviewing Non-Interior Actions

• ERM 10-1:  Electronic Distribution of Environmental Review Assignments
• ERM 10-2:  Procedures for Reviewing Project and Environmental Reports Prepared by or for Non-Federal Agencies
• ERM 10-10:  Improving Environmental Review Assignment Comments

License Proceedings through the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

• ERM 10-6:  Evaluating Alternative Conditions and Prescriptions in Hydroelectric Power Licensing or Relicensing Proceedings Before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• ERM 10-5:  Departmental Participation in Hydroelectric Power Licensing by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• ERM 10-3:  Interventions in Proceedings of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• Resource Agency Hearings and Alternatives Development Procedures in Hydropower Licenses: Final Rules, Published November 23, 2016

Section 4(f) of the Department of Transportation Act

• ERM 10-7:  Environmental Review Memorandum
• Handbook on Departmental Review of Section 4(f) Evaluations

Referrals to the Council on Environmental Quality

• ERM 10-8:  Guidance on Referrals to CEQ of Proposed Federal Actions Found to be Environmentally Unsatisfactory