U.S. Department of Justice
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS)
Legal Division 
1100 Vermont Avenue, N.W. 
Washington, DC 20530 
(202) 514-3750 
(202) 514-3456 (fax) 


MEMORANDUM 

TO: Carl Peed Director 
THROUGH: Lani Lee General Counsel 
FROM: Melissa Fieri-Fetrow Associate General Counsel 
CC: Wayne McCall Methamphetamine Team Leader 

SUBJECT: The COPS Fiscal Year 2003 Finding of No Significant Impact for the 
Methamphetamine Initiative 

DATE: January 26, 2005 

Under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (“NEPA”), federal agencies are required 
to assess the effects of their actions on the quality of the human environment. In Fiscal Year 
2003, the COPS Office prepared an Environmental Assessment (“EA”) for the 2003 
Methamphetamine Initiative1 (“Initiative”), as required by the Council on Environmental 
Quality’s regulations (40 C.F.R. Parts 1500 through 1508), implementing NEPA (42 U.S.C. § 

The Initiative provides federal funding to state and local law enforcement agencies to assist in the 
eradication of clandestine laboratories, specifically by providing funding assistance for the training of law 
enforcement personnel, the salaries and benefits of law enforcement personnel, the purchase of approved 
equipment and supplies, and the seizure of clandestine laboratories, including the proper removal, storage 
and disposal of hazardous chemical materials, equipment and other waste products retrieved from such 
laboratories. 


Finding of No Significant Impact 
January 26, 2005 
Page 2 

4321, et al.). A Finding of No Significant Impact (“FONSI”) was issued in Fiscal Year 20032 for 
the Initiative based on the EA. In Fiscal Years 2003 and 2004 the COPS Office funded and 
administered the Initiative. In Fiscal Year 2005, the COPS Office continues to fund and 
administer the Initiative. 

By this memorandum, the COPS Office adopts the Fiscal Year 2003 Methamphetamine EA and 
FONSI for the Fiscal Year 2005 Initiative. The Fiscal Year 2003 EA is current and accurate 
since the underlying science on which it was based has not changed. In addition, the COPS 
Office concludes that the Fiscal Year 2005 Methamphetamine Initiative will not constitute a 
major Federal action significantly affecting the environment. 

Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you. 


Carl R. Peed, Director, 
Office of Community Oriented Policing Services 
Date 01/26/05 


2 In Fiscal Year 2004 the COPS Office adopted the 2003 Methamphetamine EA and FONSI based on the continued 
accuracy of the EA’s environmental analysis.