Department of Agriculture
Compiled reference Department of Agriculture's Categorical Exclusions (opens in new tab)Categorical Exclusion
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
The following categorical exclusions do not require NEPA documentation.
Exclusion Text
(USDA-20c-USFS) Rules, regulations, or policies to establish service-wide administrative procedures, program processes, or instructions. Examples include, but are not limited to: (i) Adjusting special use or recreation fees using an existing formula; (ii) Proposing a technical or scientific method or procedure for screening effects of emissions on air quality related values in Class I wildernesses; (iii) Proposing a policy to defer payments on certain permits or contracts to reduce the risk of default; (iv) Proposing changes in contract terms and conditions or terms and conditions of special use authorizations; (v) Establishing a service-wide process for responding to offers to exchange land and for agreeing on land values; and (vi) Establishing procedures for amending or revising forest land and resource management plans.
Provenance
- Agency: Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- Dataset: Department of Agriculture
- Source provenance: Compiled reference
- Source type: legacy seed
- Identifier:
08ccc808-9f1f-5a85-a150-767f02f33a7e - Identity status: bootstrap (publisher declaration, not independently verified)
- Identity issuer: Environmental Review Exchange prototype bootstrap; pending CEQ confirmation
- Legacy identifiers: USDA--1-1-20
- 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.
