Effective Environmental Assessments: How to Manage and Prepare NEPA EAs

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Although upwards of 50,000 Environmental Assessments (EA) are prepared annually, the focus of the National Environmental Policy Acts (NEPA) Regulations is clearly on defining requirements for preparing environmental impact statements. Surprisingly, until now, there has been no authoritative and comprehensive guide on how to prepare Environmental Assessments (EAs). Effective Environmental Assessments: How to Manage and Prepare NEPA EAs fills that gap. Authored by one of the nations leading experts, and recipient of the President's Award for Outstanding Performance by the National Association of Environmental Professionals, the book provides you with de facto direction and best professionals standards for preparing publicly defensible EAs. The result is an indispensable source of practical information. No other book available come close to providing the wealth of information provided in Effective Environmental Assessments: How to Manage and Prepare NEPA EAs.

Environmental Impact Statements: A Practical Guide for Agencies, Citizens, and Consultants

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Environmental Impact Statements: A Practical Guide for Agencies, Citizens, and Consultants
Diori L. Kreske
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Environmental Impact Statements focuses on the roles of the various participants in the EIS review process. Whether you are an EIS author or reviewer, member of a public agency, a private sector consultant, a developer, environmental activist, or private citizen, understanding your own role and the roles of others in the process will increase your effectiveness, reduce duplication of effort, and save time and money.

This hands-on guide offers a unique, comprehensive approach to preparing, managing, and reviewing an EIS. It chronicles the preparation process step by step, from kickoff meeting through final submission and, unlike other books, it integrates technical discussions on the regulatory environment and impact analysis into the planning chronology instead of treating them independently. The book's combined emphasis on process and interaction of roles enables participants to adapt each step to their own federal or state EIS projects.

Author Diori Kreske explains all concepts needed to understand the EIS process and presents them first at an introductory level and later in greater detail. In the first half of the book she introduces readers to the EIS process, defines the roles and responsibilities of major participants, and discusses the process in relation to federal and state requirements and court decisions. Then Kreske concentrates on the nuts and bolts of preparing and managing an EIS. She describes how to build an EIS team, establish the statement's framework, manage the preparation process, determine when and how to involve the public, and write and review EISs.

Whatever your role in the EIS process, and wherever your interests lie, this invaluable resource will help you develop a clear understanding of your responsibilities within the defined requirements and ensure that the process will be more effective in accomplishing its stated purpose: to reduce the negative impacts of our actions on the environment.

Environmental Impact Statements is the first book to approach the preparation and management of the EIS process through the roles and responsibilities of process participants. It enables participants to reduce conflicts, avoid duplication of effort, and most importantly, produce a more useful EIS. This invaluable book provides a step-by-step guide to preparing an EIS that can be readily adapted to any state or federal EIS project. It also:

Explains major participants' roles and how their responsibilities and goals can be effectively integrated into the process
Describes the responsibilities and perspectives of both the public and private sectors
Gives how-to advice on preparing and managing the EIS process
Offers suggestions on how EIS teams can streamline the process and reduce time, effort, and paperwork
Provides case studies that illustrate the preparation and management of EISs
Includes numerous illustrations, an extensive list of acronyms, and appendices useful in preparing EISs, including NEPA and CEQ regulations

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.What You Need to Know About Operating and Maintaining Environmental Permits

It's a jungle out there; a jungle of environmental restrictions, requirements, mandated impact statements, and most of all, necessary permits. Which permits do you need? From whom? And just as important, how do you get them?

A. Roger Greenway delivers the definitive permit-savvy answers in this first handbook to tackle the complex and diverse issues of environmental permitting. Principal of a leading environmental consulting firm, Greenway has handled myriad permitting issues for many industries, and in this unique resource he shows you how to:

*Find out which permits you need, from who, for each situation
*Obtain wetlands, safe drinking water, clean air, clean water, solid waste, hazardous waste, asbestos, and all other types of environmental permits
*Get permits from the EPA, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of Transportation, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and other agencies
*Follow correct procedures and filing requirements
*Calculate required figures and apply necessary models
*Evaluate and configure plans to conform to regulatory requirements
*Coordinate state with federal permit requirements
*Complete included key federal forms
*Avoid fines for your company and penalties for yourself

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One-stop, step-by-step guidance in the "how" of EIS project and strategic planning

This outstanding guide focuses on the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) not merely as a document to be prepared, but as a process and framework for the planning of programs and projects. It presents state-of-the-art strategies, tools, techniques, and methodologies for managing EIS projects of any size and emphasizes practical approaches to problems that have traditionally hindered National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance and practice.

This single, comprehensive volume synthesizes and describes all relevant guidance and requirements that the EIS document must satisfy and illustrates relevant requirements with lessons from case law. Employing an incremental, building-block approach to describe the entire EIS planning process in complete detail, this indispensable handbook guides readers through each step of the process and provides:

Step-by-step guidance on using the Total Federal Planning (TFP) strategy to reduce time and effort and streamline the entire EIS process
A complete EIS checklist to ensure that every item is accounted for when preparing the statement
Tools from value engineering theory, TQM, and systems planning for rendering the early decision-making process more efficient and effective

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Environmental Impact Statements, Second Edition has been extensively revised and updated to cover all the requirements for a wide variety of EISs on the federal, state and local levels, including a new chapter devoted to Environmental Justice. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) must be completed for any major action that requires a federal permit and may have an adverse effect on the environment. Each federal agency has its own requirements regarding what must appear in the statement. Furthermore, many state and local agencies have their own versions of EISs that must be done for any proposed construction. This book provides a thorough explanation of EISs so that the personnel responsible for preparing these documents will be able to understand the fundamentals of a wide range of environmental factors - ecological and socioeconomic - that comprise an Environmental Impact Statement. This may be the only place that an understandable explanation of the EIS process is located together with a detailed description of how to do an EIS. This is the only book to spell out the EIS process in a straightforward, easy -to-understand style. Written at a level that allows the reader to grasp the fundamentals of EISs, it avoids technical jargon and addresses the topic in layperson's terms. Environmental Impact Statements is an indispensable book for architectural and engineering firms, industrial firms and regulatory agencies on all levels.

Environmental Impact Assessment (McGraw-Hill series in water resources and environmental engineering)

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Comprehensive EIA Resource
A very complete overview about the EIA process and approache

Environmental Impact Assessment (McGraw-Hill series in water resources and environmental engineering)
Larry W. Canter
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill College
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ASIN: 007009764X

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The Canter text appeals mainly to Civil Engineering students taking course work in environmental assessment practice or impact assessment, usually taught at the junior/senior level as a popular elective. Some chemical and environmental engineers take the course as well. The author has specifically beefed up and improved the chapters on biological, cultural, and socioeconomic environmental factors. The book continues to emphasize both production and assessment aspects of environmental factors, i.e., air, water, and noise, together with some interesting case studies. The latest governmental methodologies and Environmental Impact Studies have been included in this timely revision.

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Comprehensive EIA Resource.......2000-08-11

At over hundred bucks, this book is not for everybody. But it is the best all-in-one resource for conducting environmental impact assessments. The book is crammed full with tables and diagrams on everything from examples of project-effects interaction matrices to "A Comparison of Four Habitat Evaluation Methods." Besides introductory and general how-to-do-an-EIA material, chapters cover air, surface water, soil/groundwater, noise, biological envt., cultural envt., socioeconomic envt, visual impacts, and public participation. The writing has a no-nonsense engineering flavor. Not for casual reading, but as a resource/reference for students and professionals this is a high quality but overpriced book.

A very complete overview about the EIA process and approache.......1999-11-17

At this moment, Environmental Impact Assessment process and approaches are in a constant change, requeriments are increased as well as needs for to get a good EIA. Many scientifics are trying to get a holistic vision of the world affected for any project in order to get the best and close approach for interprete it. This book shows a complete evolution of the EIA business as well as avoid new interpretations and applications following the needs and background of the professionals that want use it.

The Environmental Impact Statement Process and Environmental Law

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The Environmental Impact Statement Process and Environmental Law
Emmett B. Moore
Manufacturer: Battelle Press
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Forecasts and Environmental Decisionmaking: The Content and Predictive Accuracy of Environmental Impact Statements (Social Impact Assessment Series)

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Forecasts and Environmental Decisionmaking: The Content and Predictive Accuracy of Environmental Impact Statements (Social Impact Assessment Series)
Paul J. Culhane , Paul H. Friesema , and Janice A. Beecher
Manufacturer: Westview Pr (Short Disc)
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Bureau Of Reclamation: An Assessment Of The Environmental Impact Statement On The Operations Of The Glen Canyon Dam

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Bureau Of Reclamation: An Assessment Of The Environmental Impact Statement On The Operations Of The Glen Canyon Dam
Jonathan Bachman , Steve Brown , and Jay R. Cherlow
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Bureau of Reclamation (BoR): An Assessment of the Environmen.......2004-06-11

An audit of the BoR's final EIS on the operations of the GDD. This report discusses: whether BoR's determination of the impact of various dam-operating alternatives on selected resources was reasonable; & what, if any, concerns still exist on the part of key interested parties about the final EIS. Since the GDD, located in Page, AZ, was completed by the BoR in 1963, it has been used to generate power during periods of high demand. The fluctuation releases of water have caused concerns about the detrimental effects such flows have in the Grand Canyon.

Acreage Limitation and Water Conservation Rules and Regulations: 1996 Environmental Impact Statement (2 vols. - Final/Draft)

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Acreage Limitation and Water Conservation Rules and Regulations: 1996 Environmental Impact Statement (2 vols. - Final/Draft)
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Manufacturer: U.S. Department of the Interior
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ASIN: B000WVYEZ4

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2 vols. - Final/Draft EIS recommending preferred alternative for technical and financial assistance to districts and landholders in improving conservation efforts under Reclamation Reform Act in 17 western states.

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