i Nance: . 12 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. - 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: _. oo oo it. would enable agencies and interested” =... __pérsonswith. relevant_infermation. toro ae ne -EA ~make-such -information available intime== we EN i _-for.usesin’ the ‘draft statements; ~~ eae p (2) (3) 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 al process that the 102 process is initiated. -_ wee en, - (1) 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 Le , »