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In NY, New SEQRA Regulations Finally Appear on the Horizon

By Charlotte A. Biblow

In September 2012, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) proposed the most significant changes to the regulations governing the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) since the mid-1990s. It accepted comments, and the comment period closed. In the years that followed, however, the NYSDEC did not finalize the changes it proposed to the existing SEQRA regulations, available at 6 NYCRR Part 617. That now appears to be changing.

The NYSDEC recently issued a draft generic environmental impact statement (EIS), explaining its rationale and its objectives for the changes it proposed in 2012. The EIS discusses the comments the NYSDEC received in response to the 2012 proposal, and its proposed final regulations.

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