Is BPA required to evaluate the environmental impact of building a new transmission line before a decision is made to build it?
Yes. We are required to follow procedures established in the National Environmental Policy Act. NEPA is a federal law that requires all federal agencies to consider the potential environmental impacts of their proposed actions. NEPA promotes better agency decisions by ensuring that high quality environmental information is available to agency officials and the public before the agency decides whether and how to undertake a federal action. Through the NEPA process, all interested parties have an opportunity to learn about BPA’s proposed actions and to provide timely information and comments to the agency. To implement NEPA, all federal agencies follow procedures issued by the President’s Council on Environmental Quality in the Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508). BPA is an agency of the Department of Energy and follows DOE’s implementing procedures (found in 10 CFR Part 1021) online at http://www.gc.energy.gov/NEPA/documents/nepa1021_rev.pdf. You can read more about the
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