Categorical Exclusion

(c) List of No REC Determination Form Required (NR) FBI CATEXs.

(3) No extraordinary circumstances exist that would cause the normally excluded proposed action to have significant environmental effects. Extraordinary circumstances are assumed to exist when the proposed action is likely to involve any of the following circumstances:
(i) An adverse effect on public health or safety;
(ii) An adverse effect on federally listed endangered or threatened species, marine mammals, or critical habitat;
(iii) An adverse effect on archaeological resources or resources listed or determined to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places;
(iv) An adverse effect on an environmentally sensitive area, including floodplains, wetlands, streams, critical migration corridors, and wildlife refuges;
(v) A material violation of a Federal, state, or local environmental law by the FBI;
(vi) An effect on the quality of the human or natural environment that is likely to be highly scientifically controversial or uncertain, or likely to involve unique or unknown environmental risks;
(vii) Establishment of precedents or decisions in principle for future actions that have the potential for significant impacts (e.g., master plans, Integrated Natural Resource Management Plans, Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plans);
(viii) Significantly greater scope or size than normally experienced for a particular category of action;
(ix) Potential for substantial degradation of already existing poor environmental conditions. Also, initiation of a potentially substantial environmental degrading influence, activity, or effect in areas not already substantially modified; or
(x) A connection to other actions with individually insignificant, but cumulatively significant, impacts.

Exclusion Text

(NR13) Maintenance of facilities, equipment, and grounds. Examples include interior utility work, road maintenance, window washing, lawn mowing, trash collecting, facility cleaning, and snow removal.

Extraordinary circumstances

• (3) No extraordinary circumstances exist that would cause the normally excluded proposed action to have significant environmental effects. Extraordinary circumstances are assumed to exist when the proposed action is likely to involve any of the following circumstances:
  (i) An adverse effect on public health or safety;
  (ii) An adverse effect on federally listed endangered or threatened species, marine mammals, or critical habitat;
  (iii) An adverse effect on archaeological resources or resources listed or determined to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places;
  (iv) An adverse effect on an environmentally sensitive area, including floodplains, wetlands, streams, critical migration corridors, and wildlife refuges;
  (v) A material violation of a Federal, state, or local environmental law by the FBI;
  (vi) An effect on the quality of the human or natural environment that is likely to be highly scientifically controversial or uncertain, or likely to involve unique or unknown environmental risks;
  (vii) Establishment of precedents or decisions in principle for future actions that have the potential for significant impacts (e.g., master plans, Integrated Natural Resource Management Plans, Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plans);
  (viii) Significantly greater scope or size than normally experienced for a particular category of action;
  (ix) Potential for substantial degradation of already existing poor environmental conditions. Also, initiation of a potentially substantial environmental degrading influence, activity, or effect in areas not already substantially modified; or
  (x) A connection to other actions with individually insignificant, but cumulatively significant, impacts.