AASHTO Center for Environmental Excellence

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AASHTOCenter for Environmental Excellence

• May 5, 2005

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Center of Environmental Excellence
SCOH
Maintenance
SCOE
SCOD
SCOP
Construction
CSS TF
SCOPT

• American Association of State Highway and
  Transportation Officials

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CENTER WEB SITEwww.environment.transportation.org

• Created to serve as a one-stop source of
  environmental information for transportation
  professionals
• Showcases state transportation success stories
  and innovative practices
• Provides DOTs with the resources (information,
  linkages, contacts, innovative approaches) to
  incorporate environmental stewardship practices
  into the functioning of their DOTs
• New, searchable website with many additional
  postings

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TRAINING

• Workshop on Managing the NEPA Process for Complex
  Projects
• How to Lay the Foundation for a Successful NEPA
  Study
• Creating Effective Frameworks for Agency
  Coordination and Regulatory Compliance
• Writing Readable and Legally Sufficient NEPA
  Documents
• Public Involvement in a Polarized Environment
• Environmental Management Systems (EMS)
• Provide guidance to states that are actively
  considering the development of an EMS

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TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

• Experts available to assist states with
  environmental matters on either a project or
  programmatic level
• Topics
• Secondary and cumulative impacts
• Environmental management systems (EMS)
• Transportation project planning, development and
  design
• Impact assessment and mitigations planning,
  design and construction
• Waste management and pollution prevention
• Context sensitive design/solutions (CSD/CSS)
• Public involvement
• Endangered species
• Environmental justice
• Transportation and land use planning
• Transportation environmental stewardship and
  management
• Transportation program delivery streamlining
• Organizational and professional development

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ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS

• AASHTO/ACEC/FHWA effort to Improve the Quality of
  Environmental Documents
• Legal sufficiency
• Quality and clarity of environmental documents
• Education and training

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CONSTRUCTION AND MAINTENANCE PRACTICES

• Environmental Stewardship Practices in
  Construction and Maintenance (NCHRP 25-25-04).
• A compilation of 7,000 environmental practices
  employed by DOTs
• Thousands of links
• Enable transportation agencies to benefit from
  each other's experiences
• Source for updating State DOT policies,
  performance targets, manuals, bulletins, specs
  and tailgate sessions
• Located on the Center web-site, broken down by
  chapter
• Updating the document and providing peer to peer
  exchanges

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CHAPTER TITLES

• 1 Introduction and Research Approach
• 2 Organizational Environmental Stewardship
  Practices
• 3 Designing for Environmental Stewardship in
  Construction Maintenance
• 4 Construction Practices - Environmental
  Stewardship
• 5 Pavement, Materials, and Recycling

• 6 Maintenance Facilities Management
• 7 Bridge Maintenance
• 8 Winter Operations and Salt, Sand, and
  Chemical Management
• 9 Roadside Vegetation Management
• 10 Roadside Management and Maintenance Beyond
  Vegetation

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CHAPTER 7 BRIDGE MAINTENANCE

• 7.1. Preventative Bridge Maintenance Practices
• 7.2. Avoiding and Minimizing Impacts to Fish and
  Wildlife And Enhancing Habitat
• 7.3. Bridge Painting/Coating/Sealing and
  Containment Stewardship Practices

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7.2. Avoiding and Minimizing Impacts to Fish and
Wildlife And Enhancing Habitat

• Scheduling Maintenance and Repair
• Using Pre-Fabricated Bridges to Help Accommodate
  Stream/Fish Timing Restrictions
• Reducing the Space Needed for Large Equipment
  Access
• Bird and Bat Roosts in Bridges

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Oregon Wedge Daytime Bat Roost
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Texas Bat-Abodes, Modified for a Steel I-Beam
Bridge, Have Been Used to Attract Bats
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COMING ATTRACTIONSCENTER PRODUCTS

• 2005 Best Practices in CSS competition
• Information on the Center website
• Awards presented at the AASHTO Annual Meeting
• Programmatic Agreements
• Develop a library of existing programmatic
  agreements, compile them into a useable format
  and post them on the website

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AVAILABLE CENTER PRODUCTS

• Documentation from the 2005 workshop, Managing
  the NEPA Process for Complex Projects
• A how-to guide and toolkit on developing and
  implementing programmatic agreements
• The Taking the High Road report, which
  documents environmental and social contributions
  of Americas highway programs
• 2002 and 2004 Best Practices in Smart Growth
  Competition Reports
• 2003 Best Practices in Environmental Stewardship
  Competition Report
• EMS Training Guides
• EMS Implementation Guide
• EMS Handy Guide 1 Making the Case for an
  Environmental Management System
• EMS Handy Guide 2 EMS, A Bridge for
  Organizational Coordination and Communications
• EMS Workshop Presentations

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COMMENTS/INFORMATION

• Shannon Eggleston
• seggleston_at_aashto.org
• [phone]
• www.environment.transportation.org