11.   Citing the need for quick action to help restore an ailing forest, the Forest Service approved the project without issuing a full-fledged environmental impact statement.

12.   Commissioner Robert Loescher, an Alaska businessman, characterized the impact statement as anti-business and an obstacle to communities and companies wanting to engage in legal activity.

13.   Collins said he expected the administration to justify lifting the ban by ordering a new environmental impact statement that would find that newer snowmobiles were cleaner and quieter.

14.   Could something like that ever qualify for an environmental impact statement?

15.   Deadline passes for public comments on environmental impact statement at Pantex plant.

16.   During that time, the inspection service must prepare a new environmental impact statement and revise its regulations.

17.   Federal officials say they have not determined whether the company must conduct an extensive environmental impact statement.

18.   Failing to prepare an environmental impact statement on the lethal removal plan and withholding the opportunity for public comment on a proposal to kill marine animals.

19.   Fort Bliss spokeswoman Jean Offutt said the military has to hold such meetings as part of its environmental impact statement.

20.   Gargano said that release of the plan cleared the way for an environmental impact statement to begin, to be followed by the drawing of detailed construction plans.