Effectively Guide Your NEPA Process!
Achieving and managing compliance with requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) requires a thorough understanding of the Act’s intent, its regulatory requirements, and professionally accepted methods for effectively addressing the many difficult elements of the regulation. Meeting the procedural requirements of NEPA and understanding how to create defensible documentation requires an informed perspective as well as the tools to avoid pitfalls and time sinks.
Aarcher Institute’s NEPA Navigator™ course is ideal for anyone with either a lead or supporting role in managing the NEPA process, including Federal and state employees, consultants, and private sector managers with activities subject to NEPA. This 3-day course moves beyond workshop level overviews to provide substantive training for both those new to NEPA as well as current practitioners.
The Aarcher Institute’s NEPA Navigator™ course combines formal training modules, numerous hands-on and practical exercises, and open discussion of relevant compliance challenges to solidify the foundation students need to effectively participate in the NEPA process. Exercises are customized to registered students’ needs, ongoing or planned projects, specific agency regulations, and level of prior NEPA experience.
The NEPA Navigator™ course provides real-time and real-world value, allowing you to immediately apply core NEPA concepts to real needs. You will gain a strong working knowledge of NEPA practices, as well as a thorough understanding of how to complete a NEPA application or project specific assessment efficiently and effectively.
Topics covered include:
- NEPA – The Law and its Implementing Regulations
- Conducting Environmental Impact Analyses and Documenting Environmental Consequences
- Tips and Techniques for a Successful NEPA Process
- NEPA Review, Analysis and Documentation
- Relationship to other environmental laws and regulations, including EMS
- Working with NEPA project Stakeholders
- Related Cultural, Historic and Socioeconomic Issues and Impacts
Our Continuing Education Matrix provides a summary of current professional certification credits, maintenance points, and CEUs awarded to Institute courses.
Whitney Fiore has over 15 years experience professional consulting experience in the field of natural resources, CEQA/NEPA and regulatory compliance. Six of those years were spent working for environmental and land use attorneys specializing in CEQA/NEPA and regulatory compliance in both federal and state jurisdictions. Ms. Fiore has prepared 100 or more CEQA/NEPA documents that range from large (5,000 page) EISs to 50 page Environmental Assessments (EAs) or Mitigated Negative Declarations (MNDs). Along with CEQA/NEPA compliance, Whitney has been managing projects that require U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Section 404 CWA, Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 Consultations with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), numerous state wildlife agencies, Coastal Development Permits, state 401 Water Quality Certifications, as well as mitigation and restoration planning. For seven years Whitney co-taught a course at UC Berkeley Extension on CEQA/NEPA and regulatory compliance for projects in aquatic habitats. Whitney’s background has afforded her an ability to work on all aspects of projects for which NEPA compliance may be necessary and with inter-disciplinary teams that include engineers, hydrologists, historic preservationists/archeologists, biologists, geo-morphologists, hazardous material and risk assessment experts, aquatic toxicologists, air quality experts, among others.
