ABSTRACT
While the desire to make environmentally enlightened decisions can lead to the preparation of environmental impact statements (EIS), legal requirements are often the main drivers of producing such documents, and certainly proscribe their scope. Accordingly, it is incumbent upon the drafter of an EIS or other environmental review documents to know at least the basics of what the law requires. While it is agency personnel who set the sideboards for such reviews, the preparers will do well to have some knowledge of their own.
