02/27/2018
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"It just seems peculiar."
"According to the Forest Service's NEPA handbook, the agency has, I don't know, 30, 40, maybe 35 categorical exclusions at its disposal."
"I would love to have them have more resources and more tools to use that existing exemption, as opposed to going further for something they really don't need yet."
"I understand that the Forest Service has authority, I think explicit authority, to use categorical exclusions up to, what is it, 3,000 acres now?"