Using The Transportation Planning Process To Support Nepa Process

Download or read book Using the Transportation Planning Process to Support NEPA Process written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook is intended to help transportation planners and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) practitioners improve linkages between the planning and NEPA processes, while also complying with recent legislative changes that require increased consideration of environmental issues in the planning process. Issues covered in this Handbook include: Establishing Organizational Linkages, Establishing a Vision for the State or Region's Transportation System, Defining Corridor-Level Goals and/or the Purpose and Need, Eliminating Alternatives, Identifying the Affected Environment and Potential Environmental Impacts, Considering Environmental Mitigation Activities.