CEQR (Environmental Review)

Many BSA applications are subject to the City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR) process. Pursuant to state and local law, CEQRidentifies any potential adverse environmental effects of proposed actions, assesses their significance, and proposes measures to eliminate ormitigate significant impacts. Only certain minor actions, known as Type II actions, are exempt from environmental review.

A "lead agency,"responsible for undertaking, funding or approving an action, determines whether the action requires environmental review. Ifso, the lead agency is responsible for notifying and coordinating with other involved or interested agencies, distributing documents for publiccomment, conducting required public hearings, determining the significance of potential environmental impacts and, beforemaking a decisionon the proposed action, issuing its findings with respect to measures that would avoid or mitigate any significant impacts.

The New York City MOEC (Mayor's Office of Environmental Coordination) provides expertise and assistance to lead agencies and is therepository of all CEQR documents. MOEC manages CEQR Access, an easy-to-use web resource that enables users to retrieve finalenvironmental review documents on projects that are undergoing or have completed review through the CEQR process. CEQR-Accessprovides project information including the CEQR Number, Project Name, the Project Description, the Lead Agency, project milestones, andaccess to available documents.

To look up the CEQR statusof a BSA application, visit the MOEC CEQR Access search portal.

Visit the CEQR Technical Manual page