National Institute of Standards and Technology

Compiled reference National Institute of Standards and Technology's Categorical Exclusions

Categorical Exclusion

V. Research

Exclusion Text

V-2.* Outdoor research activities conducted in compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, and requirements. Examples include tyles of reserach, development, testing, and evaluation activities conducted outdoors where no new ground disturbance occurs and no sensitive resources (e.g., threatened or endangered species, archaeological sites, Tribal resources, wetlands, and waterbodies) are present, such as radar testing, radio noise measurements, and public safety communications research.

Provenance

Agency: National Institute of Standards and Technology (DOC-NIST)
Dataset: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Source provenance: Compiled reference
Source type: legacy seed
Identifier: 5b621f11-c21a-5801-bb06-42c33ea4585d
Identity status: bootstrap (publisher declaration, not independently verified)
Identity issuer: Environmental Review Exchange prototype bootstrap; pending CEQ confirmation
Legacy identifiers: NIST--1-5-16
Fetched at: 1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 (not an agency verification date)
Catalog scope: agency; publisher declares complete: false

Source legal reference

CEQ-compiled compendium of Federal categorical exclusions (historical, non-authoritative baseline)

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