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Federal Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)/EJ Resource Compendium

Description: This document gathers into one place the publicly available NEPA- and EJ-related documents from Federal agencies (e.g., regulations, guidance, and circulars), providing hyperlinks to each document for quick access.
Date: October 29, 2013
Creator: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Compliance Assurance
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Modelers and policymakers : improving the relationships.

Description: On April 22 and 23, 2004, a diverse group of 14 policymakers, modelers, analysts, and scholars met with some 22 members of the Sandia National Laboratories staff to explores ways in which the relationships between modelers and policymakers in the energy and environment fields (with an emphasis on energy) could be made more productive for both. This report is not a transcription of that workshop, but draws very heavily on its proceedings. It first describes the concept of modeling, the varying w… more
Date: June 1, 2004
Creator: Karas, Thomas H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Sandia National Laboratories, California Environmental Management System Program Manual.

Description: The Sandia National Laboratories, California (SNL/CA) Environmental Management System (EMS) Program Manual documents the elements of the site EMS Program. The SNL/CA EMS Program conforms to the International Standard on Environmental Management Systems, ISO 14001:2004 and Department of Energy (DOE) Order 450.1. Sandia National Laboratories, California (SNL/CA) has maintained functional environmental programs to assist with regulatory compliance for more than 30 years. During 2005, these existin… more
Date: April 1, 2009
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Teaching a new dog old tricks: the synergy of ISO 14000, NEPA, and integrated ES{ampersand}H management

Description: For more than twenty-five years, federal agencies have wrestled with (and even learned from) the planning and decision making processes of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Accordingly, agencies have developed established processes for environmental planning, impact assessment,and environmental-based decision making. Agencies are now faced with an opportunity to align existing environmental planning systems developed under NEPA with those of ISO 14001, the new international standard… more
Date: March 1, 1997
Creator: Wilkinson, C.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Research and institutional dimensions of environmental justice: Implications for NEPA documentation

Description: Satisfying the environmental justice requirements imposed on the NEPA process is a challenging imperative. Among the challenges for NEPA documentation are: (1) adapting existing disciplinary methodologies that address distributional effects to the dictates of the executive order; (2) determining operational and, perhaps, threshold values for policy directives (e.g., disproportionately high and adverse effects); (3) identifying and involving representatives of minority, Native American, and low-… more
Date: July 1, 1995
Creator: Carnes, S. A. & Wolfe, A. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Corrective measures evaluation work plan Technical Area V groundwater.

Description: This document, which is prepared as directed by the Compliance Order on Consent (COOC) issued by the New Mexico Environment Department, identifies and outlines a process to evaluate remedial alternatives to identify a corrective measure for the Sandia National Laboratories New Mexico Technical Area (TA)-V Groundwater. The COOC provides guidance for implementation of a Corrective Measures Evaluation (CME) for the TA-V Groundwater. This Work Plan documents an initial screening of remedial technol… more
Date: April 1, 2004
Creator: Lebow, Patrick S.; Dettmers, Dana L. & Hall, Kevin A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Integrating a life-cycle assessment with NEPA: Does it make sense?

Description: The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 provides the basic national charter for protection of the environment in the US. Today NEPA has provided an environmental policy model which has been emulated by nations around the world. Recently, questions have been raised regarding the appropriateness and under what conditions it makes sense to combine the preparation of a NEPA analysis with the International Organization for Stnadardization (ISO) - 14000 Standards for Life-Cycle Assessmen… more
Date: September 3, 1998
Creator: ECCLESTON, C.H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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