Justine Kasznica and Mackenzie Moyer Co-Author Firm Alert
On December 9, 2025, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) published a Notice of Availability and Request for Comment on the Draft Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for Drone Package Delivery Operations in the United States.[1] The PEA was issued pursuant to the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024’s requirement that FAA examine and integrate programmatic-level approaches to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) package delivery. The stated purpose of the PEA, and the hope of both FAA and industry, is to “streamline the NEPA process for multiple repetitive actions by broadly analyzing reasonably foreseeable direct and indirect impacts that may occur as a result of Part 135 approvals for drone operators throughout the U.S.”[2] To read the full alert by Justine Kasznica, Mackenzie Moyer, and Jeff Immel, click here.
