New York's State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQR) requires all state and local government agencies to consider environmental impacts equally with social and economic factors during discretionary decision-making. In New York State, all discretionary approvals (permits) from a NYS agency or unit of local government require an environmental impact assessment. Environmental assessments are standardized through use of the Environmental Assessment Form (EAF). The Environmental Assessment Forms are in a pdf format that can be filled and saved. The lead agency determines the significance of an action's environmental impacts.
