Environmental Law Seminar: NEPA/SEQRA

Catalog description

This seminar will deal with federal and state environmental impact procedures required by NEPA , the New York State Environmental Quality Act (SEQRA) and little NEPA¿s from other states. Impact assessment is essential to real estate development, governments projects, and a wide range of law practices. The subjects covered will include the legislative history and development of the case law, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Regulations, the State Regulations, and the environmental assessment process and the work of attorneys, planners, and professionals of other disciplines in the process. This course is open to all students without pre-requisites, and students will take a final examination at the end for the course. Students who wish to do a research project for the Upper Division Writing Credit, can apply to the instructor and do this in lieu of the exam.