39 CFR Appendix A to Part 775: Appendix A to Part 775—Administrative and Routine Actions Excepted From NEPA Review

Table of Contents

A1 Routine Postal Service Policy Development

A2 Routine Postal Service Actions

A3 Personnel Actions

A4 Awards of Certain Contracts

A5 Clarifying or Administrative Contract Actions

A6 Research, Studies, and Data Collection

A7 Education and Training

A8 Procedural Documents

A9 Postal and Mail Actions

A10 Legal Activities

A11 Trade Representation and Market Development

A12 Emergency Preparedness

A13 Equipment Procurement or Disposal

A14 Disposal of Routinely Generated Wastes

A15 Waste Minimization Operations

A16 Procedural Rulemakings and Interpretations and Rulings With Existing Regulations

A17 International Postal Agreements

A18 Approval of Technical Exchange Arrangements

A1 Routine Postal Service Policy Development

Policy development, planning and implementation that relate to routine activities such as personnel, organizational changes or similar administrative functions.

A2 Routine Postal Service Actions

Routine actions, including the management of programs or activities necessary to support the normal conduct of agency business, such as administrative, financial, operational and personnel action that involve no commitment of resources other than manpower and funding allocations.

A3 Personnel Actions

Reduction in force resulting from workload adjustments, reduced personnel or funding levels, skill imbalances or other similar causes that do not affect more than 1,000 positions.

A4 Awards of Certain Contracts

Award of contracts for technical support services, management and operation of a government owned facility, and personal services.

A5 Clarifying or Administrative Contract Actions

Contract interpretations, amendments, and modifications that are clarifying or administrative in nature.

A6 Research, Studies, and Data Collection

Research activities and studies and routine data collection when such actions are clearly limited in context and intensity.

A7 Education and Training

Educational and informational programs and activities.

A8 Procedural Documents

Administrative, organizational, or procedural Policies, Orders, Notices, Manuals, and Guides.

A9 Postal and Mail Actions

Postal rate or mail classification actions, address information system changes, post office name and zip code changes.

A10 Legal Activities

Property protection, law enforcement and other legal activities undertaken by the Postal Inspection Service, the Law Department, the Judicial Officer, and the Inspector General.

A11 Trade Representation and Market Development

Activities related to trade representation and market development activities.

A12 Emergency Preparedness

Emergency preparedness planning activities, including designation of on-site evacuation routes.

A13 Equipment Procurement or Disposal

Procurement or disposal of mail handling or transport equipment.

A14 Disposal of Routinely Generated Wastes

Disposal of routinely generated wastes, including equipment, in compliance with Federal, State, and local laws.

A15 Waste Minimization Operations

Operational changes at an existing facility to minimize waste generation and for reuse of materials. These changes include but are not limited to, adding filtration and recycling systems to allow reuse of vehicle or machine oil, setting up sorting areas to improve process efficiency, and segregating waste streams previously mingled and assigning new identification codes to the two resulting streams.

A16 Procedural Rulemakings and Interpretations and Rulings With Existing Regulations

Rulemakings that are strictly procedural, and interpretations and rulings with existing regulations, or modifications or rescissions of such interpretations and rulings.

A17 International Postal Agreements

Approval of Postal Service participation in international postal agreements that would not commit the Postal Service to any specific projects or activities.

A18 Approval of Technical Exchange Arrangements

Approval of technical exchange arrangements for information, data, or personnel with other countries or international organizations.