TY - BOOK AU - Eccleston, Charles H TI - EIS book: : managing and preparing environmental impact statements SN - 9781466583634 U1 - 333.714 PY - 2014/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - EP N1 - 1. Scientific facades : how not to prepare an EIS : a case study on how a flawed EIS process can imperil society -- 2. Overview of NEPA and the EIS process -- 3. Preliminaries and prescoping : initiating the EIS and tools for managing the process -- 4. Preparing the EIS : the step-by-step process requirements -- 5. Performing the EIS analysis -- 6. Writing the environmental impact statement : the EIS documentation requirements N2 - "The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires that ALL federal agencies prepare Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) for any proposal that may significantly affect the quality of the human environment. They generally take more than a year to prepare, have an extensive public participation component, and require substantial collection of original data. An Assessment can generally be completed in a few ER -