Evaluating the Performance of Environmental Streamlining:
Development of a NEPA baseline for Measuring Continuous Performance

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^[4]TransTech Management, Inc. , Environmental Streamlining: A Report on Delays Associated with the Categorical Exclusion and Environmental Assessment Processes. Prepared for American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials Standing Committee on Highways and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program, October 2000.

^[5] Mendenhall, William, Dennis Wackerly and Richard Schaeffer, Mathematical Statistics, PWS-Kent Publishing, Boston, 1990.

^[6]It should be noted that a couple of the median values in the regional analysis, including the one for Region 1, are not whole numbers since their sample sizes are even numbered, which places the median value between the two innermost values.