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SYLLABUS

COLLABORATION IN NEPA

OVERVIEW

This training is designed for National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) practitioners who want to develop and integrate collaboration opportunities into the overall NEPA process. This interactive and experiential training includes real-world NEPA case studies with skills practice and provides a foundation for participants to analyze the potential and plan for collaboration in NEPA activities.

Learning from the course is relevant for NEPA processes applied to different types of projects and substantive topics (e.g., planning, infrastructure, energy, transportation, multi-agency project, etc.).

Training participants will learn alongside NEPA practitioners from across the Federal Government and the private sector.

By the end of the training, participants will have the knowledge/skills to:

• Assess and plan for successful collaboration in NEPA processes using appropriate tools, techniques, and best practices

• Understand the policy goals of NEPA and the benefits of using collaborative approaches to achieve those goals

• Relate the premise and policy underpinnings of NEPA to implementing collaborative approaches

• Identify the benefits and uses of collaboration in NEPA, and an array of tools, techniques, and best practices to achieve those benefits

• Define and articulate the different degrees of collaboration in a NEPA context

• Understand the mindsets, skills, and behaviors conducive to successful collaboration

• Integrate the collaboration mindset and techniques into NEPA planning and implementation

• Assess the potential for and feasibility of utilizing collaborative approaches in NEPA

• Identify obstacles to successful collaboration and develop strategies to address those potential obstacles

• Connect collaboration concepts to real-world NEPA examples

• Apply collaborative principles, tools, and techniques to working with lead agencies, cooperating agencies and stakeholders

• Apply collaborative principles, tools, and techniques to their own NEPA examples

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AGENDA

DAY 1

MORNING 8:30 AM BEGIN CLASS

WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS

1. Welcome and Introductions

2. Objectives of Course

3. Agenda and Materials

4. Introduce the National Center for Environmental Conflict Resolution

5. Reflection on NEPA Goals

MODULE 1: COLLABORATIVE CONCEPTS

1. Nature and benefits of effective collaboration

2. Understanding ECCR

3. Personal and agency beliefs about collaboration

MODULE 2: COLLABORATION IN THE NEPA CONTEXT

1. Connecting the intent of NEPA to stakeholder engagement

2. Integrating collaboration into NEPA planning and implementation

LUNCH (1 HOUR)

AFTERNOON

MODULE 3: ASSESSING COLLABORATIVE CAPACITY, READINESS, AND POTENTIAL

1. Assessing the potential for productive and effective collaboration within the NEPA process

2. Learning key aspects of a situation assessment

MODULE 4: DESIGNING COLLABORATION INTO THE NEPA PROCESS

1. Designing collaboration tools into specific NEPA stages

4:30 PM ADJOURN

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AGENDA

DAY 2

MORNING

8:30 AM BEGIN CLASS

1. Debrief Day 1 and Discuss Collaborative Self-Assessments

MODULE 5: UNDERSTANDING AND WORKING WITH CONFLICT IN NEPA

1. Sources of conflict

2. People, process, and content considerations

3. Strategies for working with conflict in the NEPA Process

MODULE 6: LEADING COLLABORATION

1. Strategies to engage the appropriate people within the NEPA process

2. Best practices for how to manage a collaborative process

3. Designing a collaborative process within NEPA

LUNCH (1 HOUR)

AFTERNOON

MODULE 7: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER AND FINAL SCENARIO EXERCISES

1. Key principles for designing and implementing collaboration in NEPA

MODULE 8: COLLABORATION CLINIC

1. Connect this process to your projects and apply collaborative principles/tools/techniques to your NEPA examples

2. Discussion with peers and instructors

COURSE WRAP UP

1. Evaluation

4:30 PM ADJOURN

4:30 PM Adjourn

4:30 PM Adjourn