Subpart A Protection and Enhancement of Environmental Quality
Subpart B Initiating the Nepa Process
Subpart C Environmental Assessments
Subpart D Environmental Impact Statements
Subpart E Relationship to Decision-Making
Subpart F Managing the Nepa Process
Subpart G Actions Requiring an Eis and Actions Subject to Categorical Exclusion

Terms Used In 43 CFR Part 10010 - Policies and Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.