Categorical Exclusion Under the National Environmental Policy Act for Certain Terminations or Revocations of Water Power Licenses and Exemptions

What it does

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) proposes to amend section 380.4 of its regulations implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) to expand an existing Categorical Exclusion (CE). A CE describes a category of actions that a Federal agency has determined normally does not significantly affect the quality of the human environment, absent extraordinary circumstances, and so does not trigger NEPA's requirement to prepare an environmental document. The proposed revision would add a category of actions to an existing CE to include terminations or revocations of water power licenses and exemptions that will result in minor or no ground disturbing activity and minor or no changes in reservoir conditions and downstream flows.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

1 part of Title 18 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

18 CFR 380

What happens next and when

Comments are due March 26, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 18 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register