Service must prepare an environmental impact statement for all “major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment.” 42 U.S.C. § 4332(2)(C). If, however, the agency determines based on an EA that the action will have no significant impact, then the more expensive and detailed environmental impact statement is not required. See 40 C.F.R. §§ 1508.9, 1508.13; Kelley, 844 F.Supp. at 1110-11. Having reviewed the EA, the court concludes that the Forest Service took the requisite “hard look” at the relevant environmental issues and that the 52-page EA with eight appendices contains the documentation and “reasoned elaboration required to support the agency’s determination of no significant impact.” See Town of Orangetown v. Gorsuch, 718 F.2d 29, 35 (2d Cir.1983) (<HOLDING>), cert. denied, 465 U.S. 1099, 104 S.Ct. 1592,
holding courts role is to ensure that agency took hard look at the environmental consequences and convincingly documented its fonsi holding that the task of quantifying the consequences of violating a noncompetition clause is a particularly hard and elusive one holding that agency is bound by its regulations holding that an eis was required to evaluate the environmental consequences of the decision to divert water to industrial use holding that government involvement must be accompanied by public comment because a purpose of ncp is to ensure that those responsible for the cleanup receive citizens input regarding environmental conditions in the community