(1) Prescribe the contents of an environmental impact statement;

(2) Prescribe the procedures whereby a group of proposed actions may be treated by a single statement;

(3) Prescribe procedures for the preparation and contents of an environmental assessment;

(4) Prescribe procedures for the submission, distribution, review, acceptance or nonacceptance, and withdrawal of a statement;

(5) Prescribe procedures to appeal the nonacceptance of a statement to the environmental council;

(6) Establish criteria to determine whether a statement is acceptable or not;

(7) Establish procedures whereby specific types of actions, because they will probably have minimal or no significant effects on the environment, are declared exempt from the preparation of an assessment;

(8) Prescribe procedures for informing the public of determinations that a statement is either required or not required, for informing the public of the availability of draft statements for review and comments, and for informing the public of the acceptance or nonacceptance of the final statement; and

(9) Prescribe the contents of an environmental assessment.