After the Passage of the National Environmental Policy Act

question 34

Multiple Choice

After the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act,

• A) each federal agency assumed a new procedural obligation to consider the environmental impacts of its proposed actions and the alternatives to those impacts.
• B) each federal agency had to take "substantial" steps to reduce any environmental harm caused by it.
• C) each federal agency had to take "reasonable" steps to reduce any environmental harm caused by it.
• D) each federal agency had to seek approval from the applicable state legislature before taking action that would have an environmental impact in that state.

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