Key Points
Applicants are responsible for complying with applicable Federal, State, Territorial, or Tribal Environmental Historic Preservation laws even if FEMA is not providing PA funding for all of the work. Visit the FEMA Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation for more information.
Several statutes, Executive Orders, and regulations establish requirements to protect the environment and preserve the Nation's historic and prehistoric resources. FEMA must review each Public Assistance project to ensure the work complies with applicable Federal environmental and historic preservation laws and their implementing regulations, and applicable Executive Orders.
The Applicant is responsible for complying with applicable Federal, State, Territorial, or Tribal environmental and historic preservation laws even if FEMA is not providing Public Assistance funding for all of the work.
Detailed Discussion
It is FEMA's policy to act with care to ensure that its disaster response and recovery, mitigation and preparedness responsibilities are carried out in a manner that is consistent with all Federal environmental and historic preservation policies and laws. FEMA uses all practical means and measures to protect, restore and enhance the quality of the environment, to avoid or minimize adverse impacts to the environment, and to attain the objectives of:
- Achieving use of the environment without degradation or undesirable and unintended consequences;
- Preserving historic, cultural and natural aspects of national heritage and maintaining, wherever possible, an environment that supports diversity and variety of individual choice;
- Achieving a balance between resource use and development within the sustained carrying capacity of the ecosystem involved; and
- Enhancing the quality of renewable resources and working toward the maximum attainable recycling of depletable resources.
- Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation Program
- Clean Air Act (CAA), 1990 As Amended
- Clean Water Act, 1948 as Amended 1966, 1972, Section 10 Rivers & Harbors Act, 1899
- Defining the Full Scope of the Federal "Action"
- Draft Guidance for Federal Disaster Recovery Assistance Applicants
- Eight Step Planning Process for Floodplain/Wetland Management
- Environmental & Historic Preservation Documents
- Environmental Assessment Evaluation Sheet
- Environmental Assessment Scoping Checklist & Format
- Environmental Assessments
- Environmental Assessments Archive
- Environmental Information
- Executive Order 11988: Floodplain Management
- Executive Order 12898, Environmental Justice for Low Income & Minority Populations, 1994
- FEMA Activities that May Trigger Environmental & Historic Review
- FEMA Region VIII Anatomy of an Environmental Assessment
- FEMA Region VIII Environmental Review Process
- FEMA Statutory Exclusions
- FEMA's Categorical Exclusions
- Flood Recovery Data
- Formatting Environmental Documents
- General Salvage Techniques
- Historic Preservation Information
- Historic Preservation Laws & Executive Orders
- Historic Preservation Useful Links
- Hurricane Ivan Overview
- Hurricane Katrina
- Hurricane Rita Flood Recovery Maps
- Hurricane Rita Flood Recovery Maps
- Employment Opportunities
- FEMA National Environmental Policy Act Streamlined Procedures
- FEMA Region VIII Environmental Resource & Agency Web Sites
- Laws & Executive Orders
- Major Components of the NEPA Review Process
- Montana Environmental Contacts
- National Environmental Policy Act
- National Environmental Policy Act Environmental Review Process
- National Historic Preservation Act, 1966 as Amended (2000)
- Nationwide Programmatic Environmental Documents
- New Orleans Metropolitan Area Infrastructure Projects
- North Dakota Environmental Contacts
- Possible Consequences of Not Following National Environmental Policy Act Process
- Potential Environmental Concerns
- Programmatic Agreements
- Section 106 Tribal Consultation
- Project Description & Samples
- Public Notice
- Questions and Answers about the Advisory Flood Elevations
- Questions and Answers about the Advisory Flood Elevations Based on New Flood Frequency Analysis
- Recent Environmental Documents & Public Notices in Region V
- Review Library
- Section 106 Review
- Section 106 Tribal Consultation
- Section 106 Tribal Consultation
- South Dakota Environmental Contacts
- Summary of Permits for Clean Water Act & Rivers & Harbors Act
- Types of Effects
- Use Of Flood Insurance Study Data As Available Data
- Useful Air Quality Information
- Useful Coastal Zone Management Information
- Useful Endangered & Threatened Species Information
- Useful Environmental Justice Information
- Useful Fish & Wildlife Coordination Act Information
- Useful Historic & Cultural Resource Information
- Useful Information for Expediting the Environmental & Historic Preservation Review
- Useful Resource Conservation & Recovery Act Information
- Useful Water Quality Information
- Useful Wetlands Information
- Utah Environmental Contacts
- Wyoming Environmental Contacts
- eLearning Tool for FEMA Grant Applicants
- About Alternative Arrangement
- Environmental Compliance
- Projects
- Public Outreach
- Questions and Answers
- Resources & Tools
- Section Contents
- Stakeholders and Partners
- Useful Websites