Issue a public notice. The NEPA regulations require that a notice of intent to
prepare an EIS must be published in the Federal Register prior to initiating
scoping. This can include a public notice of the scoping process. Other means of
public notice often are more effective, including local newspapers, radio and TV,
posting notices in public places, etc. if the proposal is controversial, reporters and
editors can be alerted, but placing a notice in the legal notices section of the paper
is the only guarantee that it will be published.