Once President Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on January 1, 1970, and California Governor Reagan followed suit signing the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) into law on September 18 of the same year, these laws expressly required the incorporation of environmental values into governmental decision making. Those statues require Federal, state, and local agencies to analyze and disclose the potential environmental impacts of their decisions, and, in the case of CEQA, to minimize significant adverse effects to the extent feasible.