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Discussion:
Fatal NEPA Flaws?
By Larry Freeman, PhD.
The Shipley Group, Senior Consultant
What agency NEPA compliance actions constitute fatal flaws? Shipley consultants routinely discuss different answers to this question with workshop participants. Test yourself with the 10 NEPA project summaries. Which ones are clear instances of fatal NEPA flaws?
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ENVIRONMENTAL/NEPA
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*** There are not a lot of NEPA news articles.
It is still
early in the new administration and the budget cycle. ***
The US Senate has passed the Omnibus Public Lands Management Act of 2009
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 US Congress Committee on Natural Resources
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 THE BRIEFING ROOM • NOMINATIONS & APPOINTMENTS of the office of the President.
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CORRECTION: The October 2008 newsletter article had an error. It mentioned the Choosing by Advantages approach to decision making and stated that it had ceased being widely used. Jim Suhr, who was the developer of the approach, called to let us know that he and his associates are still teaching the process in seminars. He assured us that it was still being used by many government agencies. Also, Choosing by Advantages methods do not assign numerical weights to decision factors, goals, roles, categories, attributes, or criteria. We apologize for my mistaken comments about the process. If you want to contact Jim Suhr, his phone number is 801-782-6168.
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Performance Objectives
for Project Managers
- Use a model for managing NEPA projects.
- Know critical quality control milestones for the NEPA process.
- Judge the quality and adequacy of a NEPA document.
- Know how to set resource, time, and quality parameters for NEPA analysis and documentation.
- Know techniques for communicating with and managing people for efficient NEPA analysis.
- Know what is important to manage and monitor forest NEPA programs.
- Shepherd the drafts (print-ready copy, CD, or web version) through production and assemble all supporting information.
“Managing NEPA Projects and Teams”
workshop manual, page 7
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