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SAFETEA-LU Section 6001 and 6002 The Caltrans Experience: Continued Kelly Dunlap, Chief, Environmental Management Office Presentation to SCOE, June 2007, Asheville NC

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SAFETEA-LU Section 6001 and 6002

SAFETEA-LU Section 6001 and 6002 The Caltrans Experience: Continued Kelly Dunlap, Chief, Environmental Management Office Presentation to SCOE, June 2007, Asheville NC

SAFET
Section 600

The Caltrans Exper

Kelly Dunlap, Chief, Environ
Presentation to SCOE, June

TEA-LU
01 and 6002

rience: Continued

nmental Management Office
e 2007, Asheville NC







Jane! Help!
Stop this
Crazy
Thing!

Quick Genera

al Thoughts

Where Does
Planning Stop

and
Environmental

Begin?

l

Organization
for Ca

• Environmental exp
Project D

• Transportation Pla
Section

• Division of Environ
is handling S

nal Challenge
altrans

pertise resides in
Delivery
anning is handling
n 6001
nmental Analysis
Section 6002

Organizationally,
create a “softe

separation betw
enviro

we are working to
er” and “fuzzier”
ween planning and
onmental

Section

New Efficient E
Review

n 6002

Environmental
Process

Section 6002
Initia

• Who?
• When
• How?

2: Notice of
ation

?
n?
?

Section 6002
Initia

Who?

– Enviro

When?

– Begin e

How?

– Via the

2: Notice of
ation

onmental staff
environmental phase
e Notice of Intent

Section 600
Initi

• A draft Notice of In
Division or Region
…may serve as the
under Section 600
information requir
is contained.

– SAFETEA-LU ENV
FINAL GUIDANCE

– Publication L 109-5
– Question 11 Answ

02: Notice of
iation

ntent …sent to the
nal Administrator
e initiation notice
02 so long as the
red by Section 6002

VIRONMENTAL REVIEW PROCESS

59, November 15, 2006
wer

Section 6002: In

• Smooth sailing

– Sample letters po
SAFETEA-LU webs

nvitation Letters

osted on our
bsite

Section 6002:
Pl

No p

De
im

dup

: Coordination
lan

problems with the
actual plan

eveloped the often
mitated but never
plicated Coordination

Plan Template





What Com

Notice of
Intent

Initiate 6002
by notifying
FHWA

mes First?

Coordination
Plan

Invite
Participating
Agencies

The First

Initiate 6002 Coordination
by notifying Plan
FHWA

t Theory

Notice of Invite
Intent Participating
Agencies

The Secon

Initiate 6002 In
by notifying Pa
FHWA Notice of A

Intent

nd Theory

nvite Coordination
articipating Plan
Agencies

Providing Opp
Involve

•M


portunity for
ement

Merging with our
“normal” process

– Formal Scoping
Meetings

– Public Information
Meetings

– Workshops and
Advisory Committees

Providing Op
Involv

• Keep it Simple

– Separate NEPA/40
– Use our existing p

procedures as muc

pportunity for
vement

04 from Section 6002
project development
ch as possible

Collabora
Identif

• Information regardi
resources and locat

• Collaboration on me
level of detail

– NEPA/404 MOU
– Scoping Meetings
– Agency Coordination
– Workshops

ation and
fication

ing environmental
tion of alternatives
ethodologies and

n Meetings

Next Steps in
Proc

That’s a
our 6002

– No in
resol

– No de
prefe
highe

– No pe

Section 6002
cess

about as far as any of
2 EISs have gotten

nitiation of issue
lution
evelopment of
erred alternative to
er level of detail
ermits or approvals

Next Steps in
Proc

• Anticipate a big p
projects to devel
alternative to hig

Section 6002
cess

push on some
lop the preferred
gher level of detail

Section 6002
and Co

What will adequate
develop the preferr
a higher level of de

Under delegation
where will that risk
line be drawn

2: Questions
oncerns

e justification to
red alternative to
etail look like?

k

Section 6002
and Co

How will disputes b
agencies resolve th

Especially with the
players to be at the
delegation

2: Questions
oncerns

between lead
hemselves?

e potential for only 2
e table under

Section 6002
and Co

• The one-sided natur
issue resolution

– Participating agenci
lead agencies canno

• State agencies actin
federal authority--t
agencies or state ag

2: Questions
oncerns

re of initiation of

ies and in some cases
ot initiate process

ng under delegated
treated as federal
gencies?


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