Making NEPA documents reflect public participation better

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Nicholas Dewar replied to Philip Murphy's discussion 'Question #1: What purpose does NEPA give to public participation?'
Jennifer, you're right that early is the best time to engage. It really deadens public trust in an agency if the only time the agency listens to the community is when the law obliges them to! At the same time, NEPA is a very rare example of…
Jun 16, 2010
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Philip Murphy replied to Philip Murphy's discussion 'Question #1: What purpose does NEPA give to public participation?'
Bob, What I think you have articulated really well is that while NEPA has a great, visionary preamble calling for public participation to improve decision making, the specific requirements it contains for agencies really stop at consultation. Its…
Jun 16, 2010
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Jennifer Ruyle replied to Philip Murphy's discussion 'Question #1: What purpose does NEPA give to public participation?'
As a session participant, one of the questions that I failed to ask was why we are so focussed on relying on NEPA to facilitate agency/public participation? In my experience, the most effective time to collaborate is prior to NEPA review of…
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Robert R. Dow replied to Philip Murphy's discussion 'Question #1: What purpose does NEPA give to public participation?'
Looking back over the decades of NEPA, back when NEPA and the CEQ regs were written, I suspect that decisonmaking was thought of as algorithmic, where agency experts rather than computers were the central processors: plug in all the relevant data…
Jun 14, 2010
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Peter B Williams left a comment for Peter C. Gomben
Pete -- Welcome! Very glad you're here because I know you can help us push the envelope AND remind us of the very real challenges faced by folks working on NEPA compliance in the field. Peter
Jun 14, 2010
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Peter B Williams left a comment for David Seesholtz
David -- Welcome! Could be a good source for "food for thought" as think about NEPA for the 21st C., eh? Peter
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Nicholas Dewar replied to Philip Murphy's discussion 'Question #2: Why go beyond strict compliance with NEPA's public participation requirements, and when might this be worthwhile?'
Philip, many thanks for this Raw Dump. And for the nice graphic. I've tried to sort this out a bit so that we can see the major themes of why an agency would want to go beyond the minimum public participation. I've also included some items…
Jun 10, 2010
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Stephen Buckley left a comment for Nicholas Dewar
Yes, well, Tim Bonnemann told me about it. He attended the IECR conferernce discussion on NEPA, so he tweeted that he was listening to my OpenGovRadio show about "The Secret Public-Participation Act of 1969". http://bit.ly/bEWKwP (I…
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Steven, You found us! I thought that you'd be here before long and I'm glad to see you.
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This website is the place where we can talk about the topics that will be discussed at the ECR 2010 Conference in Tucson on Wednesday May 26 in our session (number BO1E) called "Making NEPA documents better reflect public participation: How can we…
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CEQ Collaboration Handbook

This is a "must read" resource that we can build from: http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/publications/collaboration_handbook.html

Created by Peter B Williams Jun 8, 2010 at 1:44pm. Last updated by Peter B Williams Jun 8, 2010.

Welcome! Please read this first.

This website is the place where we can talk about the topics that we discussed discussed at the ECR 2010 Conference in Tucson on Wednesday May 26 in our session called

"Making NEPA documents better reflect public participation: How can we do it?"…

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Created by Nicholas Dewar May 18, 2010 at 10:04pm. Last updated by Nicholas Dewar Jun 10, 2010.

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Philip Murphy

Question #1: What purpose does NEPA give to public participation? 8 Replies

Have a look at the original NEPA act. Some feel it clearly intends to make collaboration with the…Continue

Tags: public, participation, collaborate, empower, NEPA

Started by Philip Murphy. Last reply by Nicholas Dewar Jun 16, 2010.

Philip Murphy

Question #2: Why go beyond strict compliance with NEPA's public participation requirements, and when might this be worthwhile? 2 Replies

For public planning processes involving Federal lands/waters, NEPA directs federal agencies to produce clear, science-based documents and, at least as explained by CEQ guidelines, lays out where in a…Continue

Tags: lawsuits, CEQ, NEPA, incentive, compliance

Started by Philip Murphy. Last reply by Nicholas Dewar Jun 10, 2010.

Peter B Williams

Question#4: What new tools, procedural changes, and other innovations are needed to make this collaborative participation feasible 1 Reply

Given our hopes and aspirations for public participation and collaboration as part of NEPA compliance, whatever those might be, perhaps we need to talk about what technology might do for us to help…Continue

Tags: participation, public, NEPA, collaboration, CEQ

Started by Peter B Williams. Last reply by Peter B Williams Jun 8, 2010.

Peter B Williams

Question #3: How can the public participate collaboratively in the development of the documents that NEPA requires? 3 Replies

Certainly one of the challenges of moving from traditional public participation to more collaborative approaches is the question of collaborative document development.  Today, many of us work on…Continue

Tags: CEQ, NEPA, collaboration

Started by Peter B Williams. Last reply by Peter B Williams Jun 8, 2010.

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