Notes
Holland & Knight alert by Jennifer L. Hernandez, Rafe Petersen, Jason A. Hill, Alexandra E. Ward, Aaron Aber, and Maggie P. Pahl analyzing the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) September 29, 2025 updated nonbinding NEPA guidance memorandum (90 FR 47734) that supersedes the February 2025 guidance. Covers incorporation of Seven County Infrastructure Coalition v. Eagle County, Colorado, 145 S. Ct. 1497 (2025) into NEPA review scope, Section 60026 of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB, Pub. L. 119-21) creating a new fee-based expedited NEPA review process cutting EIS period from two years to one year and EA from one year to 180 days, the CEQ NEPA procedures template reflecting 2020 Trump-era CEQ regulations (absent climate change and environmental justice references), agency coordination timeline with CEQ’s 30-day review period, and rescission of CEQ’s NEPA regulations under EO 14154 ‘Unleashing American Energy.’ Also references Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 NEPA amendments, 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321, 4336, 4336e, 4343, and EO 11991.