Legal Backing

• Transportation Efficiency Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21)
  
• National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA)
  
• Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and related statutes
  
• Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970, 23 USC 109(h),
  
• Environmental Impact and Related Procedures (1987), 23 USC 771,
  
• Guidance for Preparing and Processing Environmental and Section 4(f) Documents, TA 6640.8A (1987),
  
• Executive Order (EO) 12898 on Environmental Justice (1994)
  
• Department of Transportation Order on Environmental Justice (1997)
  
• Farmland Protection Policy Act (1981), as amended in 1994 (7 CFR 658)
  
• Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act (1970, referred to as the "Uniform Act"), as amended in 1987
  
• Federal Highways Administration Environmental Policy Statements (1990 & 1994)
  
• Recommendations of the President's Council on Sustainable Development