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               United States General Accounting Office
                     Washington, D.C. 20548

                                         FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                         Expected at 10 a.m. EDT
                                         Wednesday, May 24, 1972


                           STATEMENT OF
     ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                            BEFORE THE
        SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
                              OF THE
           COMMITTEE ON MERCHANT MARINE AND FISHERIES-- -
                     HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                ON
        IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED IN FEDERAL EFFORTS TO IMPLEMENT
           THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT OF 1969



    Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:
         We are pleased to appear today at the request of the
    Subcommittee to discuss our report on the improvements
    needed in Federal efforts to implement the National Environ-
    mental Policy Act of 1969. Mr. Chairman, your letter to me
    of May 18, 1971, requested the General Accounting Office to
    evaluate the implementation of section 102 of the National
    Environmental Policy Act, which requires Federal agencies
    to prepare environmental impact statements on proposals for
    legislation and other major Federal actions significantly af-
    fecting the quality of the human environment. You asked us
    to compare the procedures and practices of several Federal
    agencies to ascertain whether section 102 was being imple-
    mented uniformly and systematically. You asked also that we
    consider in our evaluation the roles of the Council on En-   fo
1   vironmental Quality and the Office of Management and Budget   7

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