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should not hesitate to solicit help on an informal
basis from other agencies.
Cooperative arrange-
ments of this sort have already been tried in a
number of cases.
Furthermore, in preparing a
draft statement any agency should welcome whatever helpful information may be forthcoming from
other agencies or from the public.
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In order for such information to be forthcoming,
however, agencies would need to develop means of
alerting
other agencies and interested members
of the public to the fact that a draft statement
is being prepared. An announcement to this effect,
at least with respect to administrative actions,
would serve three useful functions:
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it would provide advance notice of the
fact that a draft statement will soon
be available for comment;
it would furnish evidence of the point
in .time.in the. agency decisionmaking
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process that the 102 process is initiated.
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Recommendation #5:
Agencies should devise an
appropriate early notice system, by which the
decision to prepare an impact statement is
announced aS soon as is practicable after that
decision is made. ~(Compare in this respect
the "notice of intent" provisions contained in
§8b of the NEPA procedures of the Environmental
Protection Agency and the provisions for early
public notice contained in paragraphs 12 and
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