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First of all, we're talking about projects that are not on the designated list. These are the smaller ones. Suppose a federal authority has to make a decision on crop-grazing on agricultural land and has to provide a crop-grazing permit or some other type of permit for the use of that reserved land. That federal authority would get details from the proponent about the nature of the environmental effects. It would look at the duration of the effects, the intensity of the effects, and what those effects were in terms of federal interest—whether a fish habitat was disturbed, for example. Then it would have to determine if those effects were significant or not.
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