Environmental Assessment: Internet references

General Information:

1. Law & Policy
2. NEPA
3. State/Local Policy
4. International Policy
5. Monitoring and adaptive management

Environmental Impact Statements:

1. General sites
2. Specific examples
3. Snake River Dam Drawdown

General information:

    A. Law and Policy

• Federal Register
• Look up US laws and court cases
• Major Environmental Laws
  • NEPA (Title 42, Chapter 55)
  • ESA (Title 16, Chapter 35)
• Look for current legislation
• Online Law Reviews (through WSU Library)

    B. NEPA

• CEQ
• NEPAnet
  • NEPA
  • CEQ regulations
  • 40 most commonly asked questions
  • Agency implementation of NEPA
    • USGS procedures
    • USFS procedures
    • NMFS procedures
    • ACOE procedures

• EPA listing of EISs

• EPA comments on EISs

• GSA NEPA Guide

• Major cases interpreting NEPA
• NEPA Working Group

    C. Local/State Policy

• Clark County Environmental Policy Ordinance (see Title 20)
• California:
  • CEQA
    • Environmental Policy Act
    • Guidelines
    • CEQA vs. NEPA
    • Mitigated Negative Declarations
    • Mitigation Monitoring
    • California Environmental Law and Policy
    • Environmental Documents (EIR)
  • California Environmental Protection Agency
• Hawaii Environmental Notice
  • Environmental Quality Control (HRS 341)
  • State Environmental Review Law (HRS 343)
  • Environmental Policy Act (HRS 344)
  • The Environmental Review System
  • Environmental Council Rules of Practice and Procedure
• Oregon:
  • Oregon Dept. of Environmental Quality
  • Oregon Salmon Recovery Plan
• SEPAs
• Washington:
  •     SEPA Home Page
  •     Washington Dept. of Ecology
  •     Environmental Assessment Program

    D. International Environmental Policy

• Espoo Convention 1991
• Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency
• The Transboundary Agreements Infobase, Commission for Environmental Cooperation

    E. Monitoring and adaptive management

• Clark County Clean Water Program
• USFS Adaptive Management Area Program
• West Hawai'i Aquarium Project
  • Act 306
  • Administrative rules

Environmental Impact Statements:

    A. General EIS Sites

• Federal Programs EAs/EISs
  • Dept. of Energy
  • Environmental Protection Agency
  • US Forest Service
  • US Geological Survey
  • BLM
• BPA NEPA documents
• Washington Dept. of Ecology environmental assessment bibliography

    B. Specific Examples

• Avila Beach EIR
• Caspian tern relocation EA/FONSI 
  • Lawsuits
• Management actions to save the Po'ouli EA/FONSI  
• Condit Dam Removal study
• Columbia river channel improvement EIS 
  • Lawsuit by Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
• Pelican Butte DEIS (Programmatic)
• Legislative EIS
• Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument DEIS/FEIS/ROD
• NMFS Groundfish Management Plan  
  • Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act
• Makah Whaling Environmental Assessment
• Wolverine Survey Environmental Assessment
• Yosemite Valley Management Plan

    C. Snake River Dam Drawdown EIS

• Columbia River web sites
• For the Sake of the Salmon
• The Great Salmon Hoax
• NW Fishletter
• NW Power Planning Council
• Pacific Salmon Coordination Office
• PATH website
• Position papers on the dam removal proposal
• Save our Wild Salmon
• Feasibility studies by Army Corp. of Engineers
• Salmon recovery website
• ACOE Dam Breaching EIS