Purposes; procedure; savings provision

Section 2 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321) is amended— (1) by striking the section heading and designation and all that follows through are: To declare and inserting the following: 2. Purposes; procedure; savings provision (a) Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to declare; (2) in subsection (a) (as so designated)— (A) in paragraph (1) (as so designated), by striking to promote and inserting the following: (2) to promote; (B) in paragraph (2) (as so designated), by striking to enrich and inserting the following: (3) to enrich; and (C) in paragraph (3) (as so designated), by striking to establish a Council on Environmental Quality and inserting the following: (4) to establish a Council on Environmental Quality; and (3) by adding at the end the following: (b) Procedure This Act prescribes a procedure by which Federal agencies shall consider and inform the public about the reasonably foreseeable environmental effects of major Federal actions on the human environment of the United States, the result of which shall be an informational document for the purposes of consideration in Federal decisionmaking. (c) Savings provision Nothing in this Act mandates a particular outcome as a result of the use of the procedure described in subsection (b)..