QUICK REFERENCE/SUMMARY

Federal Agencies with Jurisdiction by Law or Special Expertise on Environmental Quality Issues

The agencies Reclamation sends environmental impact statements to are listed in the table below, with a synopsis of the kinds of impacts that would determine if the agency needed a copy. For complete explanations of special expertise and to whom statements should be sent, please see Reclamation's NEPA Handbook. In the Attachments, go to CEQ Regulations Implementing NEPA (40 CFR 1500) and Appendices I, II, and III. See page 37 of this file for the Appendixes.

If the EIS project would not fall under an agency's jurisdiction, do not send them a statement.

In most cases, the departmental level office needs a copy ONLY if the EIS is about legislation, regulations, a national program proposal, or major policy issue. Send only to the regional or area offices where noted.

Agency	Jurisdiction	Send EIS to:
Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
	Effects on historic districts, buildings, and monuments	Always send to regional office
Department of Agriculture
U.S. Forest Service	Effects on National forests and grasslands	Regional Forester and Area Director.
Natural Resources Conservation Service	Water quality in relation to agricultural waste management, erosion and sediment control and stabilization of rural abandoned mines; salinity control; sludge application on cropland for beneficial purposes; watershed protection.	DC
Agricultural Research Service	Effects on vegetative growth, erosion and sediment control, salinity; effects of ag waste and sludge on cropland; impacts on forest and range management.	DC
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service	Water quality on ag lands; Water Bank Program; effects of sludge disposal on cropland; federally subsidized agricultural conservation and land use programs.	DC
Economic Research Service	Analysis of economic impacts of agriculturally related pollution and resource degradations.	DC
Department of Commerce
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, DC	Water quality in managing and protecting coastal and marine resources; estuarine and anadromous fish habitat.	DC
Department of Defense
Army Corps of Engineers	Impacts to navigable waters. Permits for discharges of dredged or fill materials into U.S. waters.	District Engineer
Department of Energy
Office of Policy, Safety, and Environment	Effects of energy policies, programs, and projects on adjacent land uses	DC
Environmental Protection Agency
	Public health and welfare; air pollution control and abatement technologies; effluent limitations, water treatment works, protection of drinking water supplies.	Regional Administrator
Department of Health and Human Services
Public Health Service: Center for Disease Control	Fish and wildlife or other effects on health.	DC
Department of Housing and Urban Development
	Primarily effects of air pollution on housing values and marketability or sole source aquifers.	Regional or Area Office
Federal Emergency Management Agency
	Water quality in floodplain management. Floodplain management. Dam and levee safety.	DC
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
	Effects of power projects.	Only national scope to DC
Department of the Interior
Fish and Wildlife Service	Effects on fish and wildlife or endangered species.	DC
Geological Survey	Effects on surface and groundwaters.	DC
Bureau of Indian Affairs	Effects on Indian lands.	DC
Bureau of Land Management	Effects on public lands.	DC
National Park Service	Effects on park lands and historic, archeological, and architectural resources.	DC
Minerals Management Service	Effects on outer continental shelf and coastal waters; mineral mining	DC
International Boundary and Water Commission-- El Paso, Texas
	International water impacts from Rio Grande or Colorado River.	El Paso, Texas
Department of Labor
	Noise or other hazards in the workplace.	DC
Department of State
	International impacts of water pollution or fish and wildlife, including migratory birds.	DC
Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration	Any effects on highways or highway rights-of-way, effects of transportation on land use, vehicle emissions, noise from highways.	DC

Always send a copy to Office of Management and Budget (per 1994 request)

Always send to the headquarters office of the following environmental groups:

American Fisheries Society
American Rivers
American Water Resources Association
Defenders of Wildlife
Ducks Unlimited, Inc.
Environmental Defense Fund, Inc.
National Audubon Society
National Water Resources Association
National Wildlife Federation
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. The Nature Conservancy
The Fund for Animals, Inc.
The Wildlife Society
Sierra Club
Trout Unlimited

We have a list of basic addresses for the above agencies to start a distribution list.

Please contact Pete Martin, Webmaster (303-445-2588), for any questions.