This report is a case study of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that was
prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Fort Worth District for the Upper Trinity
River Central City Fort Worth, Texas EIS. It utilizes a system of best practices focused
on four areas of concern: adequacy of the EIS public involvement and comment process,
adequacy of the EIS content considerations, adequacy of analysis considerations, and
adequacy of document quality. The basic premise of this report is that Environmental
Impact Statements (EIS) should be analyzed outside of the Federal government in order
to ensure that the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) remains a healthy statute
that continues to serve the public. This particular EIS was chosen because of the
magnitude of the project and the potential ramifications it poses for the City of Fort
Worth. An important goal of this report is to not only evaluate this particular EIS, but to
use it as a means for answering some general questions about the employment of NEPA
in the Dallas and Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex. Perhaps this report can also be of some
assistance to individuals participating with the Corps’ preparation of the EIS for the
Trinity River Corridor project in Dallas. / text
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTEXAS/oai:repositories.lib.utexas.edu:2152/22172 |
| Date | 14 November 2013 |
| Creators | Basa, Jeffrey Edward |
| Source Sets | University of Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | electronic |
| Rights | Copyright is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the Libraries' web site by University Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works. |
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