Originally Posted By: SierraNevada
Everyone is entitled to their opinion about quality, but these threads have (or had) a lot of links to reports, photos, and other information. Over 300 views in less than 4 days here on this board. I think people are interested because this issue affects them very directly.

What keeps you coming back?


Questions like this:

There really is no rule requiring use of wagbags vs conventional methods? How does Inyo square that with their web statement that human waste "must be packed out", or the Rangers' practice of checking for wagbags?

And is it also true on the NPS side, where SEKI gives the same impression that pack-out is required?

Also if there is no rule requiring it, then it is much easier to understand that the decision to implement - consisting of nothing more than supplying wagbags - in itself does not even trigger NEPA - no "Major Federal Action" involved, as opposed to a much larger program involving removal of existing toilets, etc.

PS: The fact that public comments heavily favor one alternative over another have never held much sway in NEPA review. Plenty of courts have held that NEPA is largely procedural, and that an agency decision has to be totally irrational in order to be reversed, not just sub-optimal or even not a good idea. I think one even found that the EIS could show that the sun would cease to rise after a particular action, and a decision to go ahead would not violate NEPA.


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