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kind: "section"
citation: "43 C.F.R. § 10010.48"
title: "43"
number: "10010.48"
heading: "Decision-making procedures."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/43/10010.48"
---

# §10010.48. Decision-making procedures.

- (a) **Procedures by which the Commission makes decisions are specified in 43 CFR part 10000.**
- (b) The Commission will incorporate in its formal decision-making procedures provisions for consideration of environmental factors and relevant environmental documents. The major decision points for principal programs likely to have significant environmental effects will be clearly identified.
- (c) Relevant environmental documents, including supplements, will be included as part of the record in formal rule making or adjudicatory proceedings.
- (d) Relevant environmental documents, comments, and responses will accompany proposals through existing review processes so that Commission officials use them in making decisions.
- (e) The decision-maker will consider the environmental impacts of the entire range of alternatives described in any relevant environmental document; the range of these alternatives must encompass the actual alternatives considered by the decision-maker.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 43 U.S.C. 620k (note).

### Source

Source: 61 FR 16721, Apr. 17, 1996, unless otherwise noted.