Regulatory
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement; Commercial Expendable Launch Vehicle Operations
Issued by Transportation Department
What the record says
The Office of Commercial Space Transportation (OCST) intends to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (EIS) to address the environmental impact of commercial expendable launch vehicle operations. This action is necessary to update an environmental assessment the Office prepared in 1986. An EIS will encompass topics not previously addressed.
This is a factual description of what was issued or decided, not an assessment of it.