Abstract
When Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) at the end of 1969, many environmentalists hoped it would usher in a new era, marked by ecological awareness and concern for the impact that technology and economic devTlopment were making on the physical environment of the United States. Since that time many analyses and critiques of the law have been undertaken. Some, especially from those who emphasize economic growth, have been critical of NEPA for slowing down development and for further bureaucratizing the process by which policy decisions are reached.2 Even some environmentalists, who expected more than was achieved, have criticized the NEPA process as being primarily a paper exercise with little impact on projects. Some would go so far as to argue, half tongue in cheek, that the real impact of NEPA has been to further denude the national forests and convert them into mounds of unread reports.
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