National Institute of Standards and Technology
National Institute of Standards and Technology's Categorical Exclusions (opens in new tab)Categorical Exclusion
I. Administrative Activities
Exclusion Text
I-1. Preparation, modification, and issuance of policy directives, rules, regulations, procedures, guidelines, guidance documents, bulletins, and informational publications that are of an administrative, financial, legal, technical, or procedural nature, and for which the environmental effects are too broad, speculative, or conjectural to lend themselves to meaningful analysis and will be, in whole or part, subject later to the NEPA process, either collectively or on a case-by-case basis.
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