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Concurrent Air Quality Analysis Under the National Environmental Policy Act and Transportation/Air Quality Conformity

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  • Shaheen, Susan
  • Guensler, Randall
  • Mar, Francisca

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This paper addresses the direct and indirect relationships between the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the new conformity requirements. This paper concludes that NEPA and transportation/air quality conformity processes should be concurrent. The need for concurrent determinations is supported by five arguments: 1) the legislative history of conformity indicates that project conformity determinations be made during the NEPA process; 2) general NEPA requirements specify coordination between environmental processes; 3) the level of technical detail required for conformity analyses meets or exceeds the level already required for NEPA; 4) unless conformity is taken into account, alternatives and mitigation measures generated during the NEPA analytical process may later result in a negative conformity determination; and 5) public comment periods, unless coordinated, would run consecutively rather than concurrently, potentially delaying project implementation.

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  • Shaheen, Susan & Guensler, Randall & Mar, Francisca, 1995. "Concurrent Air Quality Analysis Under the National Environmental Policy Act and Transportation/Air Quality Conformity," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt4d07m3z0, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
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    1. Shaheen, S. & Young, T. & Sperling, D. & Jordan, D. & Horan, T., 1998. "Identification And Prioritization Of Environmentally Beneficial Intelligent Transportation Technologies," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt4hc6q5cf, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.

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