A bill to authorize appropriations for the Office of Environmental Quality, for fiscal years 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, and 1993, and for other purposes.

Summary

Amends the National Environmental Policy Act to include extraterritorial actions, with specified exceptions, within the category of Federal actions which affect the quality of the human environment and require the submission of environmental impact statements. Modifies provisions regarding the content of such 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 for the mitigation of adverse environmental effects, including impacts on fish and wildlife populations and habitat, that were predicted to result from the action. Requires each review to assess the implementation of mitigation measures and the accuracy and effectiveness of predicted adverse impacts and their mitigation. Directs the Council to include a summary of the results of such reviews in its annual report to the Congress. Amends the Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 to authorize appropriations for FY 1989 through 1993 for the operations of the Office of Environmental Quality and the Council on Environmental Quality.

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• Reported to Senate (text)

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• Introduced in Senate (text)

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 28 June 1990

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 1 June 1989

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