Under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA),1 which became law in 1975, a “lead agency” coordinates the environmental review of a proposed project by taking a wide variety of steps that range from completing an environmental assessment form and determining whether any aspect of the overall project may have or will not have a significant adverse impact on the environment to deciding the adequacy of a submitted draft environmental impact statement (EIS),2 deciding whether or not to hold a SEQRA public hearing concerning a draft EIS, and preparing or causing a final EIS to be prepared.
A lead agency typically is the involved agency that is principally responsible for carrying out, funding, or approving a proposed development.3 In the vast majority of instances, a lead agency is a local planning board or other local governmental agency.
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