Montana State Legislature
MEPA Training for State Employees
Montana Environmental Policy Act
Training for State Employees
Questions?
Contact Hope Stockwell (444-9280), hstockwell@mt.gov
or
Joe Kolman (444-3747), jkolman@mt.gov
in the Legislative Environmental Policy Office
Training Materials
Course slides
Basics of MEPA, 2015
MEPA for Decisionmakers, 2013
MEPA Cheat Sheets (for-office resource)
MEPA process flowchart
EA and EIS rules/statutes and substantive/procedural differences, 2015
Regulatory impact analysis guidelines
Actions excluded or exempt from MEPA review, 2015
Cumulative effects: a 5-step checklist
MEPA analysis resource list
MEPA Mini Courses, 2010
1) Writing an EA, Presented by Rebecca Cooper (FWP) and Sonya Germann (DNRC)
Course slides
Format recommendations for EAs
Online resources for conducting an environmental analysis
2) MEPA vs. NEPA, Presented by Todd Everts (LSD), Mike O'Herron (DNRC), and Julia Riber (USFS)
Differences between MEPA and NEPA
Writing a joint MEPA/NEPA document
3) MEPA Project Design and Management, Presented by Alice Stanley (DNRC), Sundi West (Military Affairs), and Terry Grotbo (Geomatrix)
Things that can go wrong and ways to avoid schedule busters
Example project management plan
MEPA legal memos
What agency (FWP) actions are subject to MEPA? Todd Everts, July 2002
Is the Board of Environmental Review's mercury emissions rulemaking subject to MEPA? Todd Everts, May 2006
Is the Department of Livestock's brucellosis surveillance order subject to MEPA? Todd Everts, February 2010
Other MEPA Resources
Basics of MEPA, 2015
MEPA for Decisionmakers, 2013
MEPA Cheat Sheets (for-office resource)
MEPA process flowchart
EA and EIS rules/statutes and substantive/procedural differences, 2015
Regulatory impact analysis guidelines
Actions excluded or exempt from MEPA review, 2015
Cumulative effects: a 5-step checklist
MEPA analysis resource list
MEPA Mini Courses, 2010
1) Writing an EA, Presented by Rebecca Cooper (FWP) and Sonya Germann (DNRC)
Course slides
Format recommendations for EAs
Online resources for conducting an environmental analysis
2) MEPA vs. NEPA, Presented by Todd Everts (LSD), Mike O'Herron (DNRC), and Julia Riber (USFS)
Differences between MEPA and NEPA
Writing a joint MEPA/NEPA document
3) MEPA Project Design and Management, Presented by Alice Stanley (DNRC), Sundi West (Military Affairs), and Terry Grotbo (Geomatrix)
Things that can go wrong and ways to avoid schedule busters
Example project management plan
MEPA legal memos
What agency (FWP) actions are subject to MEPA? Todd Everts, July 2002
Is the Board of Environmental Review's mercury emissions rulemaking subject to MEPA? Todd Everts, May 2006
Is the Department of Livestock's brucellosis surveillance order subject to MEPA? Todd Everts, February 2010
Other MEPA Resources
