environmental impact statements - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

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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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	21	11.90	91%	29%	0%

Data


Berkeley A	Johns Hopkins	10	10	20
Chicago A	Waterloo	0	10	10
Indiana	Chicago B	10	10	20
Cornell B	Chicago D	10	10	20
Yale B	Claremont Colleges	0	10	10
Columbia A	Purdue	0	10	10
WUSTL A	Cornell A	10	10	20
Brown	Georgia Tech	0	10	10
Iowa State	Northwestern	10	10	20
Illinois	Maryland	0	0	0
McGill	Truman State	0	10	10
Toronto A	NYU	0	10	10
North Carolina B	Harvard	10	0	10
Florida	Penn	0	10	10
Rutgers	Columbia B	0	10	10
Stanford	North Carolina A	0	10	10
Minnesota A	Texas	0	10	10
Kentucky	Vanderbilt	0	10	10
Duke	Virginia	0	10	10
WUSTL B	Toronto B	0	10	10
Yale A	Michigan	0	10	10