Preparing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement manually requires weeks of work coordinating technical data, analyzing alternatives, and formatting complex regulatory requirements. Environmental attorneys and consultants spend 20-40 hours per EIS compiling baseline data, drafting alternatives analysis, and ensuring NEPA compliance—time that delays project timelines and increases costs.
Preparing a comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement requires months of work, coordinating multiple technical analyses, synthesizing complex environmental data, and ensuring strict NEPA compliance. Environmental attorneys and consultants spend hundreds of hours drafting, reviewing, and revising EIS documents while managing tight regulatory deadlines and stakeholder expectations.
CaseMark automates EIS preparation by generating structured, NEPA-compliant documents that analyze alternatives, assess environmental consequences, and incorporate mitigation measures. Our AI processes your project data and environmental baseline information to produce comprehensive draft EIS sections in minutes, reducing preparation time by 95% while maintaining regulatory rigor.
This workflow is applicable across multiple practice areas and use cases
Energy infrastructure projects (pipelines, power plants, transmission lines) require comprehensive EIS documents for federal permitting and NEPA compliance before construction can proceed.
Energy law practitioners routinely handle major federal projects that trigger NEPA requirements, making EIS preparation a core regulatory deliverable for securing project approvals.
Federal contractors and agencies must prepare EIS documents for major government projects involving construction, land use, or environmental impacts to comply with NEPA before contract execution.
Government contracts attorneys frequently encounter NEPA compliance requirements for federal actions, particularly in defense, infrastructure, and public works projects requiring environmental review.
Large-scale commercial real estate developments on federal lands or requiring federal permits need EIS documents to satisfy NEPA requirements before transaction closing and development approval.
Commercial real estate transactions involving federal property, funding, or permits trigger NEPA review, making EIS preparation essential for deal completion and regulatory clearance.
M&A transactions involving companies with federal permits, environmental liabilities, or projects requiring NEPA compliance need EIS review for due diligence and regulatory risk assessment.
M&A attorneys must evaluate existing and pending EIS requirements as part of environmental due diligence, particularly for acquisitions in regulated industries like energy, mining, and infrastructure.
CaseMark is built on the requirements of NEPA (42 U.S.C. § 4321 et seq.) and CEQ regulations (40 C.F.R. Parts 1500-1508). The platform structures every EIS to include all mandatory sections including purpose and need, alternatives analysis, affected environment, environmental consequences, and cumulative impacts. All outputs follow established legal frameworks and incorporate the analytical rigor required to withstand legal scrutiny.
CaseMark analyzes the full spectrum of environmental impacts required under NEPA, including direct, indirect, and cumulative effects across physical, biological, cultural, and human environment resources. The platform addresses water quality, air quality, threatened and endangered species, cultural resources, environmental justice, socioeconomic impacts, and all other resource categories. It distinguishes between short-term and long-term effects, temporary and permanent impacts, and beneficial versus adverse consequences.
Yes, CaseMark generates comprehensive alternatives analysis including the required No Action Alternative, your proposed action, and other reasonable alternatives. The platform creates detailed comparative analyses showing how each alternative performs against environmental criteria, helps identify the environmentally preferable alternative, and explains why alternatives were considered or eliminated from detailed study.
CaseMark generates a comprehensive draft EIS in approximately 45 minutes, compared to the 3-6 months typically required for manual preparation. While the AI handles the initial drafting and structural organization, you maintain full control to review, refine, and customize the document to reflect project-specific conditions and agency requirements. This dramatic time reduction allows you to focus on substantive analysis rather than document formatting and organization.
Yes, CaseMark includes sections for documenting public involvement, scoping activities, tribal consultation, and interagency coordination. The platform helps you organize and summarize public comments, track consultation requirements under Section 106 and Section 7, and demonstrate how stakeholder input influenced the alternatives and analysis. You can upload scoping comments and consultation records to incorporate into the final document.