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Determination of NEPA Adequacy Streamlining Act
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to allow Federal agencies to rely on certain previously completed environmental assessments and environmental impact statements to satisfy the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill amends the National Environmental Policy Act to allow Federal agencies to rely on previously completed environmental assessments or environmental impact statements when reviewing new major Federal actions. If a new action is substantially the same as a previously analyzed action and would have substantially similar effects, an agency may use the existing environmental analysis to satisfy legal requirements rather than conducting a new review. For new actions that are not substantially similar to previously analyzed actions, agencies may modify an existing environmental assessment or statement as needed and release it as a new document. The bill aims to streamline the environmental review process for Federal agencies while maintaining public access to environmental analysis documents.
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- Nov 19, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources. · house
- Nov 19, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
November 19, 2025
Mr. Valadao introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
A BILL
To amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to allow Federal agencies to rely on certain previously completed environmental assessments and environmental impact statements to satisfy the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Determination of NEPA Adequacy Streamlining Act”.
SEC. 2. RELIANCE ON PREVIOUSLY COMPLETED ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS.
Section 108 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4336b) is amended—
(1) in the heading by striking “programmatic environmental document” and inserting “programmatic environmental documents and reliance on previously completed environmental documents”;
(2) by striking “When an agency prepares” and inserting the following:
“(a) Programmatic Environmental Documents.—When an agency prepares”; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
“(b) Reliance on Previously Completed Environmental Documents.—
“(1) Actions that are substantially the same.—A lead agency may satisfy the requirements of this Act with respect to a new major Federal action by relying on an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement that the lead agency, another Federal agency, or a project sponsor under the supervision of a Federal agency completed for another major Federal action if the lead agency determines that—
“(A) the new major Federal action is substantially the same as the other major Federal action or an alternative analyzed in such environmental assessment or environmental impact statement; and
“(B) the effects of the new major Federal action are substantially the same as the effects analyzed in such environmental assessment or environmental impact statement.
“(2) Actions that are not substantially the same.—If a new major Federal action is not substantially the same as another major Federal action or an alternative analyzed in an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement completed by the lead agency, another Federal agency, or a project sponsor under the supervision of a Federal agency, the lead agency may modify any such previously completed environmental assessment or environmental impact statement as necessary to satisfy the requirements of this Act with respect to the new major Federal action. The lead agency shall make such modified environmental assessment or environmental impact statement publicly available as a new environmental assessment or environmental impact statement.”. <all>
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