NEPA Class
a three day workshop
What you’ll learn:
- How to write effective and concise EAs and EISs
- Key procedures and guidance for NEPA — how to find and use them
- Quality in your NEPA documents
- Legal Challenges — how building in quality in your NEPA Document helps you survive legal challenges
- What’s your problem — why a clearly defined problem is critical to success.
- Maximizing the effectiveness of a public participation program
- Delays cost money — how to avoid them
- What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? Regional differences between federal agencies and different offices
- Understand the trends and regulatory environment
- Integrating NEPA with other environmental laws —finding the critical path
- Do your homework — identify resources, survey and plan ahead
- Five reasons not to prepare an EIS
- Value engineering — Use NEPA to your advantage to build a better project
- It’s all about people — getting to know the decision-makers
- NEPA - when to start to optimize your schedule
Registration Information
Online:
Register online beginning spring 2010
(registration for the Fall 2008 class is closed)
Fee: $750
Cancellation / Substitution Policy: The registration fee is non refundable but you may substitute individuals from the same organization at any time.
LOCATION: 
San Francisco, CA
This three-day course is designed for individuals new to NEPA, as well as those practitioners needing a refresher class. It will provide practical advice on the nuts and bolts of working with this far-reaching environmental law. The course focuses on case studies of federal actions requiring NEPA review and provides practical lessons from the field. NEPA veterans share the lessons they have learned that can help sharpen your NEPA skills and the way you approach some of the common problems EIS and EA preparers encounter.
INSTRUCTORS
ANGIE ADAMS is an environmental planner with EMPSi who specializes in NEPA compliance. Additionally, Ms. Adams is an expert in public and agency involvement, regulatory compliance, environmental permitting on local, state, and federal levels, natural resource planning, and ecological principles. Her experience includes public land management projects; transportation projects, multiple-use recreational pathways, and public transit facilities; water-supply projects; recreational planning projects; and transmission and distribution projects.
DAVID BATTS is a senior trainer and natural resource planner with EMPSi. He has extensive experience in resource planning, environmental impact assessment, wetland delineation and mitigation, biological surveys and habitat assessment, economic analysis, public involvement, and regulatory permitting. He has been providing NEPA, ESA, and CWA training for over 20 years to all major federal agencies. He has successfully completed numerous complex and controversial EISs for a wide variety of clients.
JOHN KING, CIH, is an environmental engineer and scientist with EMPSi. He has over 30 years of experience in environmental studies, engineering, and NEPA compliance. He has managed more than $100 million in environmental services and multiple on-call contracts for government clients. He is familiar with federal and state regulations, including CERCLA, RCRA, NEPA, and CEQA. Mr. King has taught numerous NEPA training classes, with attendees from federal, state, and local agencies.
What others say about our instructors:
“Good job! Great cross-section of participants.”
“Really enjoyed the instructors’ knowledge and energy in communicating…to us. Thanks! Good team!”
“Instructors made the class interesting and provided a fun learning environment.”
“Very well done. Thank you!”
“Good team teaching skills.”
“Instructors were very good and displayed skill in conveying information and making it interesting.”
“Angie’s teaching style is wonderful!”
“David kept me laughing and learning at the same time. Awesome!”
“I am particularly impressed with John King’s knowledge.”
“Instructors were knowledgeable and exhibited excellent teaching skills.”
“Instructors made the class interesting and provided a fun learning environment.”
“All instructors are very professional – would love to work with all of them.”
