Originally Posted By: dbd
If you think implementing wag bags is a NEPA issue, you should find out who to convince that a NEPA process was required for the wag bag implementation and seek NEPA enforcement. The NEPA doesn't require implementation of the NEPA process for actions no longer proposed and not taken.

What do you think the arguments are for requiring the NEPA process for the wag bag implementation?

Who have you identified as the relevant authority to enforce NEPA compliance based on these arguments?

Dale B. Dalrymple

Implementing wag bags was Alternative 5 of a NEPA Environmental Assessment. There's no debate about whether or not it should be a NEPA process, it was. After waiting a couple years they removed the toilets as an "emergency" and then implemented wag bags without a decision document. That's what happened. The process was aborted. Now Inyo is claiming that they didn't need to finish NEPA because wag bags are only a "voluntary program." Because they didn't finish NEPA, they can't issue a Forest Service Order making it official. So all the ideas about enforcing wag bags with numbers and tickets and whatnot is out the door. The only thing they can get someone for is littering. Any effort to enforce wag bags would mean it wasn't "voluntary."

We're getting way off topic for Half Dome. This forum has a long thread dedicated to this issue at Solar Toilets vs Carrying Wag Bags