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Environmental Impact Review in New York

An all-encompassing guide to New York's State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA)


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Publisher :Matthew Bender
Format: 2 volumes, looseleaf, updated annually , BOOK
ISBN: 9780820517445
  $493.00
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    An all-encompassing guide to New York's State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA) and the environmental impact review process that SEQRA generated. This unique publication takes project applicants, opponents, and regulators through every stage of the exacting compliance requirements and procedures of SEQRA and New York City's Environmental Quality Review (CEQR), as well as the electric power plant siting requirements of the Public Service Law. It discusses how to mesh SEQRA's requirements with those of other complex federal, state and local laws effectively and efficiently.

    • Analyzes well over one thousand SEQRA cases, both reported and unreported
    • Provides detailed guidance in preparation and evaluation of Environmental Assessment Forms and Environmental Impact Statements
    • Includes extensive SEQRA procedural guidance, including timing issues
    • Provides in-depth analysis of complex issues such as segmentation and mitigation
    • Presents model administrative and litigation forms
    • Examines the wide spectrum of activities that have been subject to SEQRA and how they have fared under the law
    • Lists, by topic, Department of Environmental Conservation final decisions on SEQRA matters

      Reference aids include checklists and appendices containing the SEQRA law and its regulations, as well as CEQR.

      First published 1990.

    Chapter 1 Introduction
    Chapter 2 Applicability of SEQRA
    Chapter 3 SEQRA Procedures
    Chapter 4 Treatment of Particular Actions
    Chapter 5 EIS Contents
    Chapter 6 Substantive Requirements: Mitigation and Findings
    Chapter 7 SEQRA Litigation
    Chapter 8 Relationship of SEQRA to Other Laws
    Chapter 8A New York City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR)
    Chapter 8B Siting of Electric Generating and Transmission Facilities
    Appendix 1 The State Environmental Quality Review Act
    Appendix 2 SEQRA Regulations
    Appendix 2A Old SEQRA Regulations
    Appendix 2B Correlation Table
    Appendix 3 Scoping Checklist
    Appendix 4 DEC Regional Offices
    Appendix 5 City Environmental Quality Review Procedure (CEQR)
    Appendix 6 Job Impact Statements for Proposed Regulations

     

    Weinberg, Philip


    Philip Weinberg is a professor at St. John's University School of Law in New York City. Prior to his joining the St. John's faculty, he was Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Environmental Protection Bureau in the New York State Attorney General's Office. In addition to teaching environmental law, he has written a case book, a student's guide and numerous articles in the field, including the Practice Commentaries to McKinney's New York Environmental Conversation Law.

    Michael Gerrard, General Editor


    Michael B. Gerrard heads the New York City office of Arnold & Porter, where he represents corporations, municipalities, and other organizations in environmental litigation and transactional matters.

    He was 2004-2005 Chair of the American Bar Association's Section on Environment, Energy and Resources. He is former Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the New York State Bar Association and has practiced environmental law since 1979. Mr. Gerrard was also a member of the adjunct faculties of Columbia Law School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

    He is General Editor of Matthew Bender's twelve-volume Environmental Law Practice Guide, which upon publication was selected as the "Best Law Book of the Year" by the Association of American Publishers. He is the General Editor of Matthew Bender's four-volume publication Brownfields Law and Practice, winner of the 1998 "Best Law Book of the Year" award. He is co-author of Matthew Bender's Environmental Impact Review in New York (with Daniel Ruzow and Philip Weinberg), author of Whose Backyard, Whose Risk: Fear and Fairness in Toxic and Nuclear Waste Siting (MIT 1994), editor of Matthew Bender's monthly newsletter Environmental Law in New York, and since 1986, co-author of the monthly environmental law column in the New York Law Journal. His other books are The Law of Environmental Justice (ABA 1999) and Global Climate Change and U.S. Law (ABA 2007). Mr. Gerrard is also the former Chairman of the Executive Committee, and former Chair of the Committee of Land Use Planning and Zoning and of the Committee on Transportation, of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has served as Deputy Director of the Mayor's Transit Office in New York City and Special Counsel to the Chair of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

    He received his B.A. from Columbia University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law, where he was a Root Tilden Scholar.

    Ruzow,A. Daniel


    Daniel A. Ruzow is a member of the Albany law firm of Whiteman, Osterman & Hanna. His extensive experience assisting corporate and government groups with commercial, industrial, and residential projects requiring environmental approvals and his representation in litigation arising from this process have helped make him a sought-after speaker on SEQRA practice issues.

     

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