The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Assessment (SPEA) to reassess the analysis from the 2011 Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment for Safe Room Construction. The agency's reevaluation suggests that there will be no significant environmental impacts from building, renovating, or retrofitting safe rooms across the country, which are eligible for FEMA grant funding. FEMA seeks public feedback on the proposed action, affirming that an Environmental Impact Statement is unnecessary and plans to finalize both SPEA and Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI). The final documents will be accessible through the FEMA NEPA Repository website.
Simple Explanation
FEMA checked to make sure that making special safe rooms won't harm the environment and found it's safe to go ahead. They want people to share their thoughts about it.