Impact of The Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970
As part of the duties given to the Director by this act, the staff of the OEQ works on many guidances and notices that assist federal agencies and entities with implementing policy on environmental issues. Some recent examples are:
Final Guidance on Improving the Process for Preparing Efficient and Timely Environmental Reviews Under the National Environmental Policy Act - the guidance goes over crucial techniques that agencies are not fully employing in preparing environmental reviews. These environmental reviews(environmental impact assessments and environmental assessments)are important in understanding the environmental impact and what can be done to mitigate it.
Final Guidance, “Federal Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Reporting” - This is the final notice to agencies to help them comply with an annual acoounting for Greenhouse Gases as required by Executive Order #13514. The purpose of the annual accounting is to gage over a number of years if an agency's reduction plan for greenhouse gases is effective. It also notes there will be revisions to this guidance as better techniques are created.
Instructions for Implementing Sustainable Locations for Federal Facilities in Accordance With Executive Order 13514 - This gives agencies directions on how to incorporate principles of sustainable locations into the decision making process for where a building should be built or leased. A building that fits in with future regional transportation plans, is near public transport, and is in a pedestrian friendly area would have a more sustainable location.
As noted in Section 4374 (d)5, one of the duties of the Director and OEQ is assisting with other agencies in activities that will help improve, protect, and affect environmental quality. An example of this is the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality, Nancy Sutley (the Director of OEQ as well), chaired an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force that among other things looked into effective coastal and marine spatial planning. Another employee of the OEQ also served on the steering committee of this taskforce to help coordinate its activities.
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