Open AccessFinding of no significant impact for the State Energy Conservation Program
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/380374
Subject(s) - environmental impact statement , meaning (existential) , action (physics) , environmental impact assessment , nice , statement (logic) , quality (philosophy) , business , energy conservation , environmental planning , environmental protection , political science , environmental resource management , engineering , environmental science , computer science , psychology , law , physics , electrical engineering , quantum mechanics , psychotherapist , programming language
The Department of Energy (DOE) has prepared a Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA), DOE/EA 1068, to assess the environmental impacts associated with the State Energy Conservation Program (SECP). DOE previously funded SECP projects under the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 (EPCA). The State Energy Efficiency Programs Improvements Act of 1990 (SEEPIA) and the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPACT) amended EPCA to broaden the range of state initiatives qualifying for Federal assistance under the SECP. The PEA presents a general analysis of the potential environmental effects associated with broad types of projects that can be funded under the SECP. It does not analyze specific environmental effects or alternatives associated with individual energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy projects. Individual actions are to be evaluated in detail on a project-by-project basis to determine whether their impacts fall within the bounding analysis of the impacts analyzed in the SECP PEA