Can a lead agency apportion the cost of preparing and reviewing an EIS with multiple project sponsors?
Yes. When a lead agency has prepared a generic EIS, typically to address the cumulative impacts of several projects within a common geographic area, the regulations allow it to recover a reasonable share of its costs from project sponsors. Apportioning costs among project sponsors will be dependent on the type of projects, and the extent of impacts for which each applicant may be responsible. The apportionment can be based on project costs, project area, population or occupancy, or on measures of potential impacts, such as amount of traffic, road frontage, shoreline, wetland or vegetative coverage, number of school children, or any other reasonable methods. A formula combining several factors may be appropriate. Alternatively, if all or most of the potential applicants are known in advance, they may be encouraged to directly contribute to the lead agency’s costs of the EIS. The lead agency could also require individual project sponsors to prepare individual EISs. Project sponsors could
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