---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 25.41"
title: "21"
number: "25.41"
heading: "Findings of no significant impact."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/25.41"
---

# §25.41. Findings of no significant impact.

- (a) As defined by the CEQ regulations ([40 CFR 1508.13](/cfr/40/1508.13.md)), a FONSI is a document prepared by a Federal agency stating briefly why an action, not otherwise excluded, will not significantly affect the human environment and for which, therefore, an EIS will not be prepared. A FONSI includes the EA or a summary of it and a reference to any other related environmental documents.
- (b) The agency official(s) responsible for approving the FONSI will sign the document, thereby establishing that the official(s) approve(s) the conclusion not to prepare an EIS for the action under consideration.

## 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.