Federal agencies are required to produce environmental impact statements whenever, according to the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, "their actions significantly affect the environment".
CSU Libraries collects environmental impact statements from Colorado and surrounding states, particularly Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Kansas. The library concentrates on final environmental impact statements, but some of the resources linked on this guide include draft EIS documents as well as those outside of the Colorado region.
If you cannot find the full text of an EIS in one of the databases listed above, try searching the CSU Libraries catalog (now called Primo.) The Libraries has final environmental impact statements in both print and electronic forms, mostly from the Colorado region, but some from other areas of the United states as well.
Some federal agencies post their environmental impact statements, environmental assessments, and/or supporting documents on the internet. To find these, a search engine such as Google is often the best tool to use.
If you use Google, try out the advanced search options which allow you to limit your search to a specific domain (such as .gov) or a specific website (such as fs.fed.us).
You may also want to try the options listed in the More Government Information box.
Please contact the library using one of the options on this page.
Scenario:
You are searching for the environmental impact statement for the Northern Integrated Supply Project. (NISP). You don't know if a draft or final statement is available.
You search the EIS Database for Northern Integrated Supply Project.
This is the results screen:
Many of the Environmental Impact Statements are full-text in the database. If not, search the library catalog (Primo) or go to Google and use the search, look for agency websites that might compile links to all the documents.
There might be other documents which support an EIS, those are often found on agency webpages or through searching the Federal Register or other government websites.
Examples of other NISP documents:
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