Sec. 1.1315  The Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS); Comments.

    (a) The DEIS shall include:
    (1) A concise description of the proposal, the nature of the area 
affected, its uses, and any specific feature of the area that has 
special environmental significance;
    (2) An analysis of the proposal, and reasonable alternatives 
exploring the important consequent advantages and/or disadvantages of 
the action and indicating the direct and indirect effects and their 
significance in terms of the short and long-term uses of the human 
environment.
    (b) When a DEIS and supplements, if any, are prepared, the 
Commission shall send five copies of the Statement, or a summary, to the 
Office of Federal Activities, Environmental Protection Agency. 
Additional copies, or summaries, will be sent to the appropriate 
regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency. Public Notice of 
the availability of the DEIS will be published in the Federal Register 
by the Environmental Protection Agency.
    (c) When copies or summaries of the DEIS are sent to the 
Environmental Protection Agency, the copies or summaries will be mailed 
with a request for comment to federal agencies having jurisdiction by 
law or special expertise, to the Council on Environmental Quality, to 
the applicant, to individuals, groups and state and local agencies known 
to have an interest in the environmental consequences of a grant, and to 
any other person who has requested a copy.
    (d) Any person or agency may comment on the DEIS and the 
environmental effect of the proposal described therein within 45 days 
after notice of the availability of the statement is published in the 
Federal Register. A copy of those comments shall be mailed to the 
applicant by the person who files them pursuant to 47 CFR 1.47. An 
original and one copy shall be filed with the Commission. If a person 
submitting comments is especially qualified in any way to comment on the 
environmental impact of the facilities, a statement of his or her 
qualifications shall be set out in the comments. In addition, comments 
submitted by an agency shall identify the person(s) who prepared them.
    (e) The applicant may file reply comments within 15 days after the 
time for filing comments has expired. Reply comments shall be filed with 
the Commission in the same manner as comments, and shall be served by 
the applicant on persons or agencies which filed comments.
    (f) The preparation of a DEIS and the request for comments shall not 
open the application to attack on other grounds.