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United States Army Corps of Engineers; Council on Environmental Quality; CEQ; environmental protection; FEIS; Environmental Impact Statement; Galveston (T.X.); coastal zone management
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Analysis Of A Worst Case Oil Spill Eis, Galveston, Gail Elizabeth Meisner
Analysis Of A Worst Case Oil Spill Eis, Galveston, Gail Elizabeth Meisner
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On July 8, 1980, the Galveston district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) issued the permits required for the construction of an onshore deepwater port. The proposed port expansion project has been the subject of extensive controversy and litigation. The primary conflict has centered on the exclusion of a worst case oil spill analysis, as required by recent Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations. A rational-deductive approach to this decision leads to the conclusion that the economically and environmentally favored choice would have been to include the worst case analysis in the initial Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). Because …