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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Kansas City District, is revising the Rathbun Lake Master Plan.

The Master Plan guides the management of the government lands around the lake and affects future management of natural resources and recreational opportunities to ensure the sustainability of Rathbun Lake in Iowa.

This is your opportunity to let USACE know how you would like the lake to be managed in the future.

 

 

 

What is NEPA?

The National Environmental Policy Act is our basic national charter for protection of the environment. It is foremost a procedural law that helps ensure that federal decision makers take a hard look at the potential effects of a proposed action and allow the public and other stakeholders to comment on the federal agency’s effects analysis and consideration of reasonable alternatives. The NEPA analysis helps these decision makers understand the environmental consequences of the alternatives in comparative form before making a decision. This “hard look” is informed by the public and other stakeholders, starting with a project or study’s scoping phase.

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The environmental review process that accompanies Corps planning studies and its value to the public are not always easy to understand. Recognizing this, and to help the public and organizations effectively participate in federal agency environmental reviews, the Council on Environmental Quality wrote the informational A Citizen’s Guide to the NEPA.