JUNE 2010

Portland, OR
June 7-11, 2010
Applying the NEPA Process and Writing Effective NEPA Documents (ANPWEND)
NEPA Cumulative Effects Analysis and Documentation (NEAD)

Albuquerque, NM
June 21-25, 2010
Applying the NEPA Process (ANP)
Reviewing NEPA Documents (RND)

JULY 2010

Salt Lake City, UT
July 7-9, 2010
Writing for Technical Specialists (WTS)

Baltimore, MD
July 13-16, 2010
NEPA Cumulative Effects Analysis and Documentation (NEAD)
NEPA Climate Change Analysis and Documentation (NCCA)

Denver, CO
July 27-30, 2010
Applying the NEPA Process and Writing Effective NEPA Documents: Dept. of Defense Specific (ANP-DOD)

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Leonardo da Vinci and Thinking Techniques for Writers

by Larry Freeman, PhD
The Shipley Group, Senior Consultant

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an outstanding artist, a brilliant scientist, a creative inventor, a talented musician (both a singer and an instrumentalist), and a superb observer of the world around him.  Given his many accomplishments, most historians would list Da Vinci at or near the top in any list of geniuses in human history.

US Senate Bill 3230
S. 3230 – A Bill to prohibit the use of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to document, predict, or mitigate the climate effects of specific Federal actions
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New CEQ NEPA Guidance
In conjunction with NEPA's 40th Anniversary Celebration, CEQ is publishing three draft NEPA guidance documents for review and comment. Below are links to the draft guidance documents and instructions for submitting comments:

• ESTABLISHING AND APPLYING CATEGORICAL EXCLUSIONS
• MITIGATION AND MONITORING
• CONSIDERING GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
  

Emergencies and the National Environmental Policy Act
“[T]he Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) reiterates its previous guidance on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental review of proposed emergency response actions.”
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U.S. Department of the Interior - Salazar Dispatches NPS and FWS Directors to Gulf Coast Command Centers to Support Fight to Protect Coastal Communities and Wildlife
“Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that Director of the National Park Service Jon Jarvis and Acting Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service Rowan Gould have been dispatched to command centers along the Gulf Coast to help lead efforts to protect coastal communities and natural resources from BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill.”
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US Army Corps of Engineers - Virginia governor praises Norfolk District's exceptional environmental stewardship
“Gov. Robert McDonnell praised U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for its environmental excellence in preserving the Crow's Nest peninsula. “The natural area preserve establishes a model for ecologically-based mitigation and environmental protection in support of sustainability.”
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Our Environmental Onsite Staffing and Support team has an extraordinarily high success rate for several reasons:

• We provide personnel that have unique skills and experience in the environmental field; particularly in the areas of NEPA documentation, process management, and environmental compliance.
• We provide a quick response time - because we are constantly working with qualified people, we have a database of identified candidates ready to go to work.
• We make it easy to replace or expand an onsite workforce.
• We work with and within an organization to help ensure compliance without raising headcount.
• We have a very experienced team at Shipley that continues to provide support and offer expertise at all levels and phases of environmental documentation, process management, and environmental compliance.