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cjel-4049	Macbeth, Angus	The National Environmental Policy Act After Five Years	2019	39	.pdf	application/pdf	16957	832	57	The Act directly requires that environmental impact statements be widely available: [2: 110 The National Environmental Policy Act rationale for the exemption was that the FWPCA Amendments provided a comprehensive mandate to the Agency to regulate the discharge of pollutants and that if the actions of the Adminis- trator under the FWPCA Amendments were subject to the re- quirements of NEPA, administration of the water pollution con- trol program would be greatly impeded.17 On a similar basis Con- gress approved the exemption of the EPA's actions under the Clean Air Act which the courts had granted under the functional equiv- alency test.4 8 In addition, in reaction to Calvert Cliffs', the FWPCA Amend- ments gave the EPA sole authority over water-polluting discharges and barred other agencies from reviewing the EPA's discharge standards and permits in NEPA impact statements.	cache/cjel-4049.pdf	txt/cjel-4049.txt