AUGUST 2010

Salt Lake City/Park City, UT
August 4-6, 2010
Cultural & Natural Resource Management (CNRM)

Olympia, WA
August 11-13, 2010
Applying the NEPA Process: Emphasis on Native American Issues (ANP-NA)

New Orleans, LA
August 17-20, 2010
Applying the NEPA Process and Writing Effective NEPA Documents (ANPWEND)  (LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE)

Salt Lake City/Park City, UT
August 25-27, 2010
Clear Writing for NEPA Specialists (CWN)

SEPTEMBER 2010

Nashville, TN
September 7-9, 2010
Integrating Federal Environmental Laws into NEPA (IFEL)

Las Vegas, NV
September 14-16, 2010
Core Principles: Telling the NEPA Story, Keeping Documents Brief, Meeting Legal Requirements (CP)

Los Angeles, CA
September 20-23, 2010
Applying the EIAP/NEPA Process: Air Force Specific (EIAP)

Eglin AFB, FL (hosted)
September 22-23, 2010
NEPA Climate Change Analysis and Documentation (NCCA)

Denver, CO
September 28-30, 2010
Forest Plan Implementation (1900-01)

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Risk Questions in NEPA Analysis and Management Actions

by Larry Freeman, PhD
The Shipley Group, Senior Consultant

Risk Questions in NEPA Analyses

A participant in a recent Shipley Group NEPA workshop asked if risk was a relevant question during NEPA analyses. I assured him it was.

Let me ask you—readers of this newsletter article—the following:

1. Would you be interested in attending a workshop focused on risk questions as related to NEPA?
2. Where in your routine NEPA work have you found risk questions relevant?
3. What is an example of a specific proposed action and associated decisions when risk was a relevant concern?
4. How did you and your colleagues analyze this risk (from question 3) and how did you record this identified risk in the NEPA legal record?

Executive Order for the Stewardship of Our Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes
"On July 19th, 2010, President Barak Obama signed an Executive establishing the National Ocean Council. The Executive Order established for the first time a comprehensive, integrated National Policy for the stewardship of the ocean, our coasts,and Great Lakes, which sets our Nation on a path toward comprehensive planning forthe preservation and sustainable uses of these bodies of water."
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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 – Implementation Report, Reorganization of Minerals Management Service
"Secretary Salazar announced the restructuring of the Minerals Management Service (MMS) on May 19, 2010, by issuing Secretarial Order No. 3299. By this Order the Secretary separated the responsibilities currently performed by MMS and reassigned those responsibilities to the newly established Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE)."
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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.