Explain how the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 affects engineers when they are designing projects

What will be an ideal response?


The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 set the requirement for all federal projects, federally funded projects, and every proposed legislative act that affects the environment to include an Environmental Impact Statement; therefore, when engineers are designing projects they might be involved in helping to write or interpret Environmental Impact Statements if they are working on federal, or federally funded, projects.

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