The Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) has promulgated for public comment proposed regulations designed both to reform and upgrade federal agency compliance with all aspects of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and to lessen the burden felt by the agencies in preparing environmental impact statements (EISs) under the Act.¹ The regulations were drafted in response to Executive Order No. 11991,² which directed the Council to revise and reissue in the form of binding regulations its current advisory.NEPA compliance Guidelines.³ The regulations are aimed at reducing the considerable paperwork, delay, and duplication to which existing NEPA procedures are subject and improving the quality of federal decisions affecting the environment.