---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 25.22"
title: "21"
number: "25.22"
heading: "Actions requiring the preparation of an environmental impact statement."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/25.22"
---

# §25.22. Actions requiring the preparation of an environmental impact statement.

- (a) There are no categories of agency actions that routinely significantly affect the quality of the human environment and that therefore ordinarily require the preparation of an EIS.
- (b) EIS's are prepared for agency actions when evaluation of data or information in an EA or otherwise available to the agency leads to a finding by the responsible agency official that a proposed action may significantly affect the quality of the human environment.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 321-393; 42 U.S.C. 262, 263b-264; 42 U.S.C. 4321, 4332; 40 CFR parts 1500-1508; E.O. 11514, 35 FR 4247, 3 CFR, 1971 Comp., p. 531-533 as amended by E.O. 11991, 42 FR 26967, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 123-124 and E.O. 12114, 44 FR 1957, 3 CFR, 1980 Comp., p. 356-360.

### Source

Source: 62 FR 40592, July 29, 1997, unless otherwise noted.