Office of Environmental Quality Reauthorization Act of 1992

Summary

Amends the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to modify provisions regarding the content of environmental impact statements. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on a strategy for achieving certain environmental policy goals under such Act. Directs the Council on Environmental Quality to promulgate regulations implementing such Act for all Federal agencies, including independent regulatory commissions. Requires the Council to establish guidelines for Federal agencies to review and report to the Council on a statistically significant sample of environmental impact statements prepared by such agencies in which measures were specified to mitigate adverse environmental effects. Requires Federal agencies to examine the accuracy and effectiveness of projected adverse impacts and their mitigation. Directs the President to include a summary of the results of such reviews in his annual report to the Congress. Requires the Council, no later than one year after enactment of this Act, to issue regulations to require Federal agencies, in their environmental impact statements, to: (1) ensure consideration of the effects of their actions on the environment of the global commons outside the jurisdiction of any nation; and (2) ensure the formal assessment of such effects on the environment within the jurisdiction of other nations. Amends the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 through 1996 for the operations of the Office of Environmental Quality and the Council on Environmental Quality.

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• Reported in House (text)

  Reported in House · EN

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• Introduced in House (text)

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• Reported to House with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 9 June 1992

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 5 March 1991

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