On September 29th, U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled that the 2005 Forest Service management plan for 4 southern Californian forests was in violation of NEPA. The plaintiffs consisted of environmental groups and the State of California. They were led by the law firm Earthjustice, which stated that the plan inadequately addressed the [...]
Archive | October, 2009
Department of Energy Categorical Exclusions soon to be online
The Department of Energy (DOE) has made a new policy requesting that certain categorical exclusion determinations will be posted online starting November 2, 2009. The CEs included in this request will have classes of actions from Appendix B to Subpart D of the Department’s NEPA regulations, 10 CFR Part 1021. Either each Program and Field [...]
Cut-&-Paste Ready Threatened & Endangered Species Data in Seconds
Let your biologist know that they can now get cut-and-paste ready Threatened & Endangered Species data for projects in Texas. Cubit Planning just launched a new Biological Resources Report (beta). Today, this report includes Threatened & Endangered Species data from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. We plan to add data from other sources, such [...]
Firefox Bug when Pasting into Microsoft Word
Currently, the lines around the tables in Cubit Reports are show up as blue, dashed lines instead of black, solid lines when you paste into Word. This is a bug, and it occurs when using the Firefox browser. I apologize for the additional time that you have to spend in Word because of this bug. [...]
5 ICI Analyses Tips with Susan Geist
Indirect and cumulative impacts analyses are tough issues for NEPA document writers. We spoke with Susan Geist, Environmental and Transportation Planning Coordinator from Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to get 5 tips from an expert. Tip #1 “The ICI discussion must clearly identify the rationale for including/excluding resources in the analysis. Customize the section to include [...]
