Specific term required. The 2023 act that suspended the debt ceiling also created time and page limits for these documents, which take a median of 4.5 years to prepare. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these documents that agencies must issue under NEPA (“NEE-puh”) if a briefer “assessment” does not produce a FONSI (“FON-see”). The EPA files these statements during the permitting of projects like Pebble Mine.
ANSWER: environmental impact statements [or EISs] (The Fiscal Responsibility Act suspended the debt ceiling. FONSI stands for “finding of no significant impact.”)
[10e] During the public comment period for an 8,000-page EIS (“E-I-S”) in 2015, the Chamorro protested the transfer of Marines from Okinawa to this Pacific island territory that hosts multinational Air Force exercises.
ANSWER: Guam [or Guåhan]
[10h] This independent DOE (“D-O-E”) agency prepares EISs for interstate pipelines and oversees regional transmission. The SPEED and Reliability Act would expedite this agency’s permitting of transmission lines.
ANSWER: FERC (“furk”) [or Federal Energy Regulatory Commission]
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