{"data":{"id":"us/39-cfr-appendix-a-to-part-775","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"39 CFR Appendix A to Part 775","heading":"Appendix A to Part 775—Administrative and Routine Actions Excepted From NEPA Review","body":"Table of Contents\nA1 Routine Postal Service Policy Development\nA2 Routine Postal Service Actions\nA3 Personnel Actions\nA4 Awards of Certain Contracts\nA5 Clarifying or Administrative Contract Actions\nA6 Research, Studies, and Data Collection\nA7 Education and Training\nA8 Procedural Documents\nA9 Postal and Mail Actions\nA10 Legal Activities\nA11 Trade Representation and Market Development\nA12 Emergency Preparedness\nA13 Equipment Procurement or Disposal\nA14 Disposal of Routinely Generated Wastes\nA15 Waste Minimization Operations\nA16 Procedural Rulemakings and Interpretations and Rulings With Existing Regulations\nA17 International Postal Agreements\nA18 Approval of Technical Exchange Arrangements\nA1 Routine Postal Service Policy Development\nPolicy development, planning and implementation that relate to routine activities such as personnel, organizational changes or similar administrative functions.\nA2 Routine Postal Service Actions\nRoutine 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.\nA3 Personnel Actions\nReduction 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.\nA4 Awards of Certain Contracts\nAward of contracts for technical support services, management and operation of a government owned facility, and personal services.\nA5 Clarifying or Administrative Contract Actions\nContract interpretations, amendments, and modifications that are clarifying or administrative in nature.\nA6 Research, Studies, and Data Collection\nResearch activities and studies and routine data collection when such actions are clearly limited in context and intensity.\nA7 Education and Training\nEducational and informational programs and activities.\nA8 Procedural Documents\nAdministrative, organizational, or procedural Policies, Orders, Notices, Manuals, and Guides.\nA9 Postal and Mail Actions\nPostal rate or mail classification actions, address information system changes, post office name and zip code changes.\nA10 Legal Activities\nProperty protection, law enforcement and other legal activities undertaken by the Postal Inspection Service, the Law Department, the Judicial Officer, and the Inspector General.\nA11 Trade Representation and Market Development\nActivities related to trade representation and market development activities.\nA12 Emergency Preparedness\nEmergency preparedness planning activities, including designation of on-site evacuation routes.\nA13 Equipment Procurement or Disposal\nProcurement or disposal of mail handling or transport equipment.\nA14 Disposal of Routinely Generated Wastes\nDisposal of routinely generated wastes, including equipment, in compliance with Federal, State, and local laws.\nA15 Waste Minimization Operations\nOperational 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.\nA16 Procedural Rulemakings and Interpretations and Rulings With Existing Regulations\nRulemakings that are strictly procedural, and interpretations and rulings with existing regulations, or modifications or rescissions of such interpretations and rulings.\nA17 International Postal Agreements\nApproval of Postal Service participation in international postal agreements that would not commit the Postal Service to any specific projects or activities.\nA18 Approval of Technical Exchange Arrangements\nApproval of technical exchange arrangements for information, data, or personnel with other countries or international organizations.","path":["Title 39—Postal Service","CHAPTER I—UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE","SUBCHAPTER K—ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS","PART 775—NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT PROCEDURES"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-10-30/title-39.xml","current_through":"2026-10-30","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-11-03T05:45:19Z","sha256":"4d671cbab07c0cfd49ea799cec973e3170e23b8bc3ea4a8d0c6a8c389f7cca7f","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":false,"prev":"us/39-cfr-775.6-through-775.14","next":"us/39-cfr-appendix-b-to-part-775"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}