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- Meet FEIS mitigation.
- Identify strategies/advisory, advisory, and subcommittee (how to make committee work).
- Cost-effective design/construction options to wildlife/vehicle movements.
- Communication throughout all levels: newsletters.
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Meet FEIS/ROD
environmental commitments, mitigation, and project specific stipulations |
- Ensure additional NEPA is performed.
- RE is accountable for all commitments.
- Ensure commitments are communicated throughout all programs levels.
- Wildlife report is incorporated into design.
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- RE responsible for all commitments. Communicate w/advisory committee and coordinate public relations and public relations consultant.
- EC is responsible for wildlife data incorporated into design.
- Ensure additional NEPA is performed.
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Identify strategies to work effectively with inter-disciplinary groups |
- Are all stakeholders represented on advisory committee (AC)?
- Have flexible, dynamic group that moves with various issues and changes of composition.
- Forest Service should have been participating in early stages. COE engineers need to be involved.
- Is AC able to change with new goal of accelerated construction?
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- EC ensures information exchange and decisions made between groups. Roles and functions of each member.
- EC will ensure that the AC obtains all information necessary to make recommendation.
- EC will request stakeholder status check from all AC members. Reassess at each meeting. Consider AC carrots.
- EC/RE visit with AC members
- Encourage more COE engineers involvement of outreach to other agencies.
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Identify cost-effective design and construction options to separate wildlife and vehicle movements |
- What defines separation of wildlife/vehicles?
- Bridging/box culverts.
- How do you determine cost effectiveness?
- Balance with effectiveness.
- Aesthetically pleasing.
- Prioritize resources social/natural.
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- Inherent process.
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Communication |
- Responsive to public.
- Proactive/early and continuous involvement.
- Implementation plan for communication.
- Who is responsible for "c."
- How do we get public more involved?
- Explanation of how our goals help ACTT.
- Are there carrots to be offered?
- Publicize commitments/summary on Web site (talk to marketing group).
- Mail communication to constituents.
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- 1-800 number for project with information, comments/responses to comments, update.
- ASAP up and running and publish number.
- Project information for public involvement tool.
- Mail newsletter to property owners and provide to certain businesses in communities.
- Heavily involve marketing consultants immediately.
- Project Web site.
- EIS. Commitments.
- Newsletter.
- AC minutes.
- Monitor for effectiveness.
- Web camera.
- Community appreciation.
- AC assess community incentives through an outreach effort (i.e., newsletter).
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