College Credit:  2 semester hours

Who Should Attend:  Personnel whose job responsibilities include ensuring their agency is in compliance with NEPA, including review of environmental documents.

Length:  4 days/32 hours

Objectives:  By the end of this session, the participant will be able to:

• Explain the purposes and objectives of NEPA, agency NEPA goals, and duty to comment;
• Describe the purpose of NEPA documentation and differentiate between a categorical exclusion, an EA and an EIS;
• Explain the scoping process and define associated elements, including purpose, need, and proposed action;
• Summarize how to plan, write and edit environmental documents;
• Describe the public review process and identify key decision documents;
• Describe the agency's review process of environmental documents; and list interrelated review requirements, such as FERC, ESA, FWCA, and others; and
• Summarize the agency's Environmental Justice policies and describe the implementation of Environmental Justice provisions of NEPA.