2008 FHWA Environmental Conference
Presentations

Air Quality

• Dancausse, Eddie — Summary of Air Quality Field Survey
• Ho, Cecilia — Revised National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)
• Perritt, Karen — Emerging Issues in Air Quality

Climate Change

• Houk, Jeff — Climate Change: The Physical Science Basis, Impacts, and Transportation's Role
• Kafalenos, Robert — Potential Impacts of Climate Change and Variability on Transportation Systems and Infrastructure - The Gulf Coast Study (SAP 4.7)

Forecasting

• Culp, Michael — Application of Travel and Land Use Forecasting in NEPA: Project Overview
• Haas, Bill — Forecasting and NEPA: The Colorado Experience
• Myers, Janet — Case Law Summary: Travel Demand and Land Use Forecasting in NEPA

Habitat

• Garrett, Paul — Migratory Bird Treaty Act
• Gray, Mary — FHWA Endangered Species Consultation Web Site and FHWA Endangered Species Consultation Web Site
• Horton, Mike — Information, Planning, and Consultation System

Historic Preservation

• Lindauer, Owen — 2007 Data Call for the National Highway Archeology Program
• Naber, MaryAnn — Update on Historic Bridges

Indirect and Cumulative Impacts

• Gilbert, Jack — Indirect Effects: The Real World (Practical Analysis through Tactical Methods)
• Hanf, Lance — Cumulative Impacts
• Moody, Kevin — The Analyst’s Perspective: Taking ICE Nomenclature Out of the Driver’s Seat
• Moody, Kevin — FHWA Texas Division Office Policy Memorandum for Planning, Environment and Project Development for Toll Roads File

Legal Panel

• Hanf, Lance — Seven Keys to Legal Sufficiency

Making Connections: Planning and Environmental Linkages (PEL) and Eco-Logical

• Bacher-Gresock, Bethaney — Integrating Transportation and Resource Planning to Develop Ecosystem based Infrastructure Projects: Eco-Logical Grants
• Haas, Bill — FHWA’ Planning and Environment Linkages (PEL) Program: The Colorado Experience
• Lupes, Becky — Streamlining Transportation Decision Making
• Majerus, Kimberly — Eco-Logical: An Ecosystem Approach to Developing Infrastructure Projects

Managing the Right-of-Way Environmental Benefits

• Vick, Cecil — Integrating the Right of Way and Environmental Processes(short) and Integrating the Environmental and Right of Way Processes(longer)

Mitigation of Environmental Impacts

• Johnson, Dan — Environmental Mitigation and Stewardship Commitment Tracking
• Whitworth, David — Newtown Pike Extension: Community Impacts Case Study

NEPA Implementation during Crisis

• Deshotels, Michele — Hurricanes Katrina & Rita: Environmental Emergency in Louisiana
• Martin, Cheryl — St. Anthony Falls I-35W Bridge Replacement: NEPA Implementation Lessons Learned
• Vick, Cecil — Natural Disaster Effects On Your Office

NEPA Litigation: How to Avoid It and How to Survive It

• Johnson, Dan — Maryland SHA’s Thinking Beyond the Pavement
• Moore, Keith — Context Sensitive Solutions
• Otto, Sandra — The CSS Role in a Changing Climate
• Peaks, Harold — Context Sensitive Solutions
• VanDop, Jack — Federal Lands Highway’s Philosophy on Context Sensitive Solutions

NEPA Nuts and Bolts

• Vanderhoof, Mike — NEPA Nuts and Bolts

Planning and Fiscal Constraint

• Miller, Harlan — Fiscal Constraint and  Transportation Planning Requirements and Their Relationship to NEPA
• Osterhues, Marlys — Environmental Costs
• Sinnette, Jim — Planning/Fiscal Constraint

Priority Issues: Climate Change, Section 4(f), Planning/Fiscal Constraint, and NEPA Document Quality

• Cheatham, Jim — Fiscal Constraint
• Marchese, April — Climate Change and Transportation

Section 4(f)

• Braegelmann, Carol — SAFETEA-LU Section 6009 Implementation Study: Section 4(f) Amendments
• Mobley, Diane — 774.3 - Section 4(f) Approvals
• Smith, Lamar — Section 4(f)
• Snyder, David — Pushing De Minimis to Da Maximis
• Vanderhoof, Mike — Colorado De Minimis Reporting

Section 6002

• Coleman, Clarence — Adapting the North Carolina Merger 01 Process to be Compliant with Section 6002
• La Pietra, Mike — Engaging With Local Project Sponsors
• Lindauer, Owen — The Environmental Review Process: From Compliance to Stewardship
• Peaks, Harold — Section 6002 Implementation
• Rentch, Ruth — Measures of Effectiveness

Shifting the NEPA Documentation Paradigm

• Smith, Lamar — Improving the Quality of NEPA Documentation

Tolling, Pricing and PPPs in NEPA

• Carlson, David — Transportation Project Development
• Hatter, Jim — Public Private Partnerships in NEPA

Tribal Consultation

• Borchert, Jeani — Tribal Consultation Programmatic Agreement

Water and Ecosystems

• Cazenas, Patricia — Highway Stormwater Runoff
• Durbin, Dennis — Wildlife Vehicle Collision Reduction Study
• Earsom, Steve — Culvert Design for Aquatic Organism Passage
• Harper-Lore, Bonnie — Invasive Plants or Noxious Weeds

Wetlands

• Campbell, Ann — Joint Army – EPA Compensatory Mitigation Rule
• Downing, Donna — Implementing the Clean Water Act after Rapanos: An Update
• Schrader, Mark — Wetland Mitigation Banking in North Dakota

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