"The Council on Environmental Quality is banking on a fast White House review process as it prepares to release new rules on how the federal government should implement the National Environmental Policy Act.

CEQ plans to send reworked implementing regulations for NEPA to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for review in June, a CEQ official told E&E News.

That gives OIRA a matter of weeks to review the highly anticipated action as CEQ plans to release a proposal to the public in June, according to the recently published spring Unified Agenda. Reuters first reported CEQ's plan to send its proposal to OIRA next month.

This is the first time CEQ will have updated its baseline for agency compliance with the environmental law since the 1980s."

Niina Heikkinen and Hannah Northey report for Greenwire May 23, 2019. [2]