On April 30, 1970, the Council on Environmental Quality issued its interim guidelines for implementing the recently enacted National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. See Interim Guidelines at 1 ELR 46001. Those guidelines called upon federal agencies to develop systematic procedures detailing how individual agencies would prepare impact statements under §102(2)(C) of NEPA. Twenty departments, component agencies, and commissions complied, and their extensive guidelines were published in ELR's first issue in January 1971. See 1 ELR 46007-47. On April 23, 1971, CEQ published revised, final guidelines under NEPA. See 1 ELR 46049. These revised guidelines necessitated the updating of agency procedures to comply with CEQ's new rules. CEQ set a deadline of July 1 for submission of revised procedures, but allowed anotherr month for agencies that had to coordinate their procedures with the Office of Management and Budget. Subsequently, all agencies were given until September 15th to incorporate any last-minute changes required by the decision in Calvert Cliffs' Coordinating Committee v. AEC, 1 ELR 20346 (D.C. Cir., July 23, 1971). However, a mid-November ELR survey of more than 50 federal agencies and sub-agencies revealed that while the vast majority were near compliance, only a few had actually published formal revised procedures.