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10 The Team developed a work plan for review and comment by the Panel. The resulting Annotated Work Plan outlined the following approaches.
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Research 11 The experience of the Team members is consistent with the observation that the NEPA process is often complicated by poor or non-existent project planning. In many cases, Team Members have had to revisit or even initiate the airport planning needed to identify the need for the project and the range of alternatives that must be considered to meet requirements of NEPA and applicable special-purpose laws.
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12 Guidance for Using the Interactive Tool for Understanding NEPA at General Aviation Airports involving private developers, either for aeronautical or other uses, may reach regional or headquarters practitioners. At the ADO level, projects tended to be more routine, but still could pose challenges.
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Research 13 6. What was the most challenging project you have worked on?
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14 Guidance for Using the Interactive Tool for Understanding NEPA at General Aviation Airports 2.1.2 Application of Interview Results The Interactive Tool includes prompts advising the user to contact the appropriate FAA EPS for guidance at key points in the process. Situations encountered in any given NEPA process are unique and cannot be applied in a general sense.
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Research 15 laws. Working through all of the possible combinations of special-purpose law requirements and the resulting NEPA implications generates literally millions of possible outcomes.
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16 Guidance for Using the Interactive Tool for Understanding NEPA at General Aviation Airports the case studies. A list of potential case studies was submitted for Panel review, and the selected case studies were incorporated in an Interim Report.
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Research 17 by special-purpose laws that entail procedural and substantive requirements beyond those of NEPA. All of the case studies involved impacts to at least one resource governed by a special-purpose law.
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18 Guidance for Using the Interactive Tool for Understanding NEPA at General Aviation Airports require extensive air quality analysis in a severe nonattainment area, while the same project in an attainment area would require little effort. Similarly, only airports in a coastal zone would have to assess impacts to coastal resources.
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Research 19 2.4 Interactive Tool Platform and Software Development The Team investigated several software platforms to support the interactive tool in terms of user familiarity and intuitiveness, ease-of-use, and ability to provide the desired capabilities. The Team also investigated software development specifications/requirements to ensure that the interactive tool could be developed within the scope of the project.
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