...announcement of intent to prepare a NEPA document and the intention of a scoping process, which must be an early and open process for determining the scope...addressed and for identifying the significant issues relating to the process, with appropriate public notice and enough information available on the proposal...

...Interim Travel Restrictions EA Scoping (40 CFR 1501.7) is an important part of the environmental analysis process for determining the scope of issues to be addressed and for identifying the environmental issues related to a proposed action. Scoping letters detailing the proposed action were...

...analysis of the effects of the proposed project on the environment. (c) Scoping It is a process of determining the scope of issues to be addressed and for identifying the significant issues relating to proposed action. It is important to identify these issues for further study and analysis....

...taken, the key steps in the EIS process include the following: • Conduct Scoping Meeting — an early, open process for determining the scope of issues to...for identifying the significant issues related to the proposed action. • Prepare purpose and need — for the project. • Develop alternatives —...

...guidance. Thus the regulations relating to scoping are very simple. They state that "there shall te an early and open process for determining the scope of issues to be addressed" which "shall be termed scoping," but they lay down few specific requirements. (Section 1501.7). They...

...statement. A copy of this reply shall be submitted to the Council. Sec. 1501.7 Scoping There shall be an early and open process for determining the scope...the significant issues related to a proposed action. This process shall be termed scoping. As soon as practicable after its decision to prepare an environmental...

...Lead agencies are required to undertake "an early and open process for determining the scope of the issues to be addressed and for identifying the significant issues related to the proposed action". According to Beanland and Duinker, scoping may be defined as a "very early exercise...

...the NEPA process with other planning at the earliest possible time . . . (§ 1501.2) There shall be an early and open process for determining the scope...addressed and for identifying the significant issues ... (§ 1501.7) . . . the environmental impact statement shall be prepared at the feasibility analysis...

...Publicissue identification or "scoping" meetings involve the public early in the process. Scoping is "an early and open process for determining the scope of issues to be addressed and identifying the significant issues related to a proposed 62 63 action" (Yost and Rubin 1989). After...

...require that agencies solicit public input early in planning and decisionmaking through " scoping' '—' 'an early and open process for determining the scope...the significant issues related to a proposed action' (40 CFR 1501 .7). Furthermore, NEPA regulations direct agencies to ' 'integrate the NEPA process with...