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GAO: MMS Alaska unit's NEPA review practices flawed

04/19/2010
By Nick Snow
The lack of a comprehensive guidebook, combined with high staff turnover in recent years, potentially handicaps the US Minerals Management Service's Alaska regional office's efforts to adequately develop federal environmental assessments, the US Government Accountability Office said."Although [US Department of the Interior] policy directs its agencies to prepare handbooks providing guidance on how to implement [the National Environmental Policy Act], MMS lacks such a guidance handbook," it said in a report posted Apr. 7 on its web site.The absence also has left unclear MMS's policy on what constitutes a significant environmental impact, GAO said, adding, "Furthermore, guida...
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