---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 C.F.R. § 408.5"
title: "12"
number: "408.5"
heading: "Ensuring environmental documents are actually considered in Agency decision-making."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/12/408.5"
---

# §408.5. Ensuring environmental documents are actually considered in Agency decision-making.


[Section 1505.1](/cfr/12/1505.1.md) of the NEPA Regulations contains requirements to ensure adequate consideration of environmental documents in agency decision-making. To implement these requirements, Eximbank officials will:

- (a) Consider all relevant environmental documents in evaluating applications for Eximbank financing;
- (b) Ensure that all relevant environmental documents, comments and responses accompany the application through Eximbank's review processes;
- (c) Consider only those alternatives encompassed by the range of alternatives discussed in the relevant environmental documents when evaluating an application which is the subject of an EIS.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: National Environmental Policy Act of 1969; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 50811, Aug. 30, 1979, unless otherwise noted.