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International and Individual State
Environmental Impact Analysis Programs
8.1 Introduction
Many countries and U.S. states followed the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) model by developing their own environmental policy state-
ments, enabling legislation, and ultimately introducing regulations to
address thegrowing environmental concerns. All of these programs drew
from the NEPA experience to some degree, sometimes embracing the con-
cepts, and at other times rejecting some of the components, but always
considering NEPA and adapting to local situations. Presented below are
example programs for sev ...