Montana State Legislature
MEPA Training
MEPA Training Materials for State Employees
Training Videos
- MEPA Basics
- GIS Resources Available at the State Library with Erin Fashoway
- Interagency coordination with Brian Sweatland, NEPA Coordinator, USFS, Region 1
- Spotlight on Scoping - When and How?
- Spotlight on Decision Notices
MEPA/NEPA contact list, August 2020
April 2, 2020
I. Course slides (coming soon)
II. MEPA Handbook
III. Handouts
- MEPA process flowchart
- Categorical exclusion rules
- EA vs EIS
- "The Place of Professional Judgments...in the Decision Making Process", Douglas Larson
- Cumulative effects analysis: 5-step process checklist, Emily Corsi, Sonya Germann, 2010
IV. In-class Exercises
- Purpose and need
- Scoping
- Analysis
April 3, 2020
MEPA Analysis Online Resource List
Environmental Indicators - EQC
GIS data by agency:
Limestone West timber sale documents
Decision notices
- EIS - CR Kendall Mine amendment 007
- EA - Grassy Mountain Addition fee title acquisition
- EA - Rattlesnake Creek Dam Removal Project
- Categorical Exclusion - Highwood Water and Sewer District
- DNRC - Amsterdam Road
Questions?
Contact Hope Stockwell (444-9280), hstockwell@mt.gov
or
Joe Kolman (444-3747), jkolman@mt.gov
in the Legislative Environmental Policy Office
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)
3) MEPA Project Design and Management, Presented by Alice Stanley (DNRC), Sundi West (Military Affairs), and Terry Grotbo (Geomatrix)
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
Course slides
- Basics of MEPA, 2015
- MEPA for Decisionmakers, 2013
