FCC 1.1315 Revised as of October 1, 2007
Goto Year:2006 |
2008
Sec. 1.1315 The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS); Comments.
(a) The DEIS shall include:
(1) A concise description of the proposal, the nature of the area affected,
its uses, and any specific feature of the area that has special
environmental significance;
(2) An analysis of the proposal, and reasonable alternatives exploring the
important consequent advantages and/or disadvantages of the action and
indicating the direct and indirect effects and their significance in terms
of the short and long-term uses of the human environment.
(b) When a DEIS and supplements, if any, are prepared, the Commission shall
send five copies of the Statement, or a summary, to the Office of Federal
Activities, Environmental Protection Agency. Additional copies, or
summaries, will be sent to the appropriate regional office of the
Environmental Protection Agency. Public Notice of the availability of the
DEIS will be published in theFederal Registerby the Environmental Protection
Agency.
(c) When copies or summaries of the DEIS are sent to the Environmental
Protection Agency, the copies or summaries will be mailed with a request for
comment to Federal agencies having jurisdiction by law or special expertise,
to the Council on Environmental Quality, to the applicant, to individuals,
groups and state and local agencies known to have an interest in the
environmental consequences of a grant, and to any other person who has
requested a copy.
(d) Any person or agency may comment on the DEIS and the environmental
effect of the proposal described therein within 45 days after notice of the
availability of the statement is published in theFederal Register.A copy of
those comments shall be mailed to the applicant by the person who files them
pursuant to 47 CFR 1.47. An original and one copy shall be filed with the
Commission. If a person submitting comments is especially qualified in any
way to comment on the environmental impact of the facilities, a statement of
his or her qualifications shall be set out in the comments. In addition,
comments submitted by an agency shall identify the person(s) who prepared
them.
(e) The applicant may file reply comments within 15 days after the time for
filing comments has expired. Reply comments shall be filed with the
Commission in the same manner as comments, and shall be served by the
applicant on persons or agencies which filed comments.
(f) The preparation of a DEIS and the request for comments shall not open
the application to attack on other grounds.
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