Department of State
Compiled reference Department of State's Categorical Exclusions (opens in new tab)Categorical Exclusion
Department of State (DOS)
(b) Actions categorically excluded from the requirement to prepare environmental impact statements. Categorical exclusion, as defined in §1508.4 of the CEQ Regulations, provides for exclusion from environmental review of specified actions which have as a class been found to have no significant impact on the quality of the human environment. Neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is ordinarily required for such actions. Departmental actions categorically excluded from the requirements of these regulations include the following:
Exclusion Text
(2) Provision of consular services—visas, passports and citizenship, and special consular services, such as issuing or reviewing passports and visas, taking legal depositions, notarizing absentee ballots and other documents and delivering retirement checks, social security payments and veterans benefits;
Extraordinary circumstances
- (b) Actions categorically excluded from the requirement to prepare environmental impact statements. Categorical exclusion, as defined in §1508.4 of the CEQ Regulations, provides for exclusion from environmental review of specified actions which have as a class been found to have no significant impact on the quality of the human environment. Neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is ordinarily required for such actions. Departmental actions categorically excluded from the requirements of these regulations include the following:
Provenance
- Agency: Department of State (DOS)
- Dataset: Department of State
- Source provenance: Compiled reference
- Source type: legacy seed
- Identifier:
b4757968-ac5c-55a2-b6cc-d2d828ebbaff - Identity status: bootstrap (publisher declaration, not independently verified)
- Identity issuer: Environmental Review Exchange prototype bootstrap; pending CEQ confirmation
- Legacy identifiers: DOS---1-2
- 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)
Disclaimer
This CE Explorer tool is not an authoritative source and creates no rights or obligations. Review the relevant agency's NEPA procedures before applying a categorical exclusion.
When using the CE Explorer Tool, Federal agencies and stakeholders should review the relevant agency's NEPA procedures for information about how to apply the CE, including any limitations or potential extraordinary circumstances, and to ensure that a CE is current and applicable to a given proposed action. To adopt and use another agency's categorical exclusion, an agency must follow the steps described in section 109 of NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4336c.
