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The Shipley Group is pleased to print the following retrospective, written by Jake Rajala. Jake recently retired after some 30 years as a NEPA coordinator. As a long-time friend and client, Jake has worked with Shipley consultants to improve his agency's NEPA compliance processes. At the same time, his many thoughtful comments and questions have challenged us to reconsider some of our own NEPA assumptions. We thank him for this retrospective.
NEPA Retrospective
Guest Article by Jake Rajala
“This National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) retrospective is based on my 30 years of working in NEPA compliance for a Federal land management agency. It critiques the NEPA compliance process as currently practiced and profiles the role of an agency’s environmental coordinator. This guest article does not represent the views of the Shipley Group or of any Federal agency, but it provides my personal observations about the intricacies of NEPA compliance.”
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ENVIRONMENTAL/NEPA
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Executive Office of the President Council On Environmental Quality: Reporting NEPA Status and Progress for Recovery Act Activities and Projects
“This memorandum sets forth the reporting requirements with which Executive Branch departments and agencies must comply in order to satisfy Section 1609(c) of the Recovery Act.”
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 USFS: Climate Change Considerations in Project Level NEPA Analysis
“This document provides initial Forest Service guidance on how to consider climate change in project-level National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analysis and documentation.”
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 Department of Energy Quarterly Report: NEPA Efficiency Essential to Recovery Plan
“...(T)he final version of the Recovery Act ...directs that adequate resources be devoted to ensuring that applicable NEPA reviews are completed on an expeditious basis and that the shortest existing applicable process under NEPA shall be used. (See Section 1609 of the Recovery Act, reprinted on page 4.)”.
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Shipley Environmental Onsite Staffing and Support
In addition to our environmental training, The Shipley Group has a successful history of providing onsite environmental staffing and support services.
Onsite Staffing and Support Services that Shipley offers and has provided to organizations include; project management, project expertise and support, expert witness, cataloging, research, logistics support, site survey, reconnaissance survey, NEPA expertise, documentation services, NEPA compliance, environmental compliance officer, senior NEPA specialist, junior NEPA specialist, NEPA specialist-on-call, and environmental review specialist.
Onsite staffing services have ranged from a few weeks, to a few months, to (continuing on to) 6 plus years.
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Checklist on Document Quality
- Does the document format (page layout) aid readers to navigate from chapter to chapter and section to section? [Documentation Strategies - Page Layout and Emphasis]
- Do readers know when they begin the document, a chapter, or a subsection what they are going to read and why? [Documentation Strategies - Organization, Emphasis]
- Are legal, regulatory, and policy implications clearly stated?
- Are sections and subsections clearly and logically linked, usually through headings, subheadings, and deliberate repetition of key information? [Documentation Strategies - Organization, Emphasis]
- Do conclusions and recommendations appear at the beginnings of sections, subsections, paragraphs, and sentences? [Documentation Strategies - Organization]
- Are graphics (tables, figures, charts, graphs, illustrations, and maps) used effectively to convey information? [Documentation Strategies - Graphics for Documents]
Excerpt from “Reviewing NEPA Documents” workshop manual, page 20. Referenced Documentation Strategies; “Documentation Strategies for Environmental Writers”
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