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- 04-05-24 The Environmental Management Office has updated the Community Impact Assessment Template. The updates include adjustments to boilerplate language for environmental justice, as well as the addition of language from FHWA Order 6640.23A (2012), under Section 4.5 – Environmental Justice. The Community Impact Assessment Template can be found on the SER Forms and Templates page.
The environmental justice updates are not currently reflected in the annotated outlines, which will be updated soon.
- 03-13-24 The SER Volume 1, Chapter 27 - Visual & Aesthetics Review has been edited to reflect the recently updated Visual Impact Assessment (VIA) guidance. The new VIA guidance can be found on Landscape Architecture’s VIA website.
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03-01-24 The Environmental Management Office has updated the NEPA/CEQA Re-Validation Form to add a reminder to check conformity status (if applicable) prior to approval.
- 02-21-24 The Environmental Management Office (EMO) has updated the SER Volume 1, Chapter 3 - Public Participation to include a new section on Virtual Public Involvement. In addition, EMO has created a new Quick Guide to Public Noticing and Filing Requirements under CEQA and NEPA that can be found on the Other Guidance page. Minor edits were also made to Chapters 1, 31, 32, 35, & 36 to provide additional information about public hearings and update links.
- 02-02-24 The Hazardous Waste, Air, Noise, and Paleontology (HWANP) Office has updated the Air Quality Report Annotated Outline to show comparisons between baseline and design-year GHG emissions.
- 01-31-24 The Hazardous Waste, Air, Noise, and Paleontology (HWANP) Office has created a new Energy Analysis Report (EAR) Annotated Outline for NEPA (EIS) and CEQA (IS/ND/MND and EIR) to document potential energy impacts of projects. In addition, the Energy Analysis Outline (Memo Format) was renamed to the Energy Analysis Technical Memo and conversion factors of BTU were updated. Both documents can be found on the SER Forms and Templates page.
- 01-29-24 The Environmental Management Office has updated the SER Volume 4, Chapter 8 - Title VI and Environmental Justice to include language from USDOT Order 5610.2C (2021) and FHWA Order 6640.23A (2022). Changes to this SER chapter also include the following: updated links, the removal of outdated language, additional guidance on environmental justice analyses, and the addition of new resources.