# Presentation: 690754

## 2005 ASW Partnership Conference

**March 9 & 10, 2005**
**Fort Worth, Texas**

## Session Title

**New Environmental Orders**

**Presented by:**
**Dean McMath,**
**Regional Environmental Programs Manager,**
**Planning and Programming Branch**

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## FAA Order 1050.1E

- Policies and Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts
- Effective Date:  June 8, 2004
- Replaced 1050.1D, Change 4

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## FAA Order 1050.1E

**Adds, deletes, reorganizes, and consolidates categorical exclusions (Chapter 3).**
**Reorganizes types of actions normally requiring EAs or EISs (Chapters 4 and 5 respectively).  **
**Moves FAA Order 5050.4A from App. 6 to paragraph 214.**
**Adds Tribes to list of government agencies consulted in extraordinary circumstances (Paragraph 304).**
**Includes guidance on government-to-government consultation with Tribes (Paragraph 213).**
**Provides guidance on intergovernmental review    (Paragraph 213).**

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## FAA Order 1050.1E

**Deletes availability of adequate relocation housing from characteristics for extraordinary circumstances.**
**Provides guidance for documenting CEs (Paragraph 305).**
**Provides formal procedure for adopting EAs prepared by other agencies (Paragraph 404d).**
**Provides optional procedure for preparing records of decision for judicial review (Paragraph 408).**
**Provides optional procedure for preparing scoping documents (Paragraph 505).**

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## FAA Order 1050.1E

**Provides optional procedure for publishing records of decisions in the Federal Register (Paragraph 512e).**
**Adds requirement to notify EPA about EIS adoptions (Paragraph 518h).**
**Adds Appendix A, Analysis of Environmental Impact Categories.**
**Adds “Supplemental Noise Guidance” to Appendix A (Section 14).**
**Adds reference to the use of demographic information for potential impacts regarding environmental justice and children (Section 16).**

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## FAA Order 1050.1E

**Provides new procedure for integrating Section 404 permitting requirements and NEPA (Section 18).**
**Adds Appendix B, FAA Guidance on Third-Party Contracting.**
**Adds Appendix C, Related Executive Orders, DOT & FAA Orders, and Memoranda/Guidance.**
**Adds Appendix D, Environmental Stewardship and Streamlining, Vision 100 – Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act.**

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## FAA Order 1050.1E

**Adds guidance for special consideration of noise impacts on noise-sensitive areas within national parks, national wildlife refuges, and historic sites including traditional cultural properties.  States that Part 150 guidelines and DNL 65 dB threshold does not adequately address effects of noise  where other noise is very low and a quiet setting is a generally recognized purpose and attribute (Section 14).**

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## FAA Draft Order 5050.4B

- Airport Environmental Handbook
- Replaces 5050.4A
- Federal Register Notice Date:  December 16, 2004
- Comment Deadline:            February 16, 2005

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## FAA Draft Order 5050.4B

- Cross-references 1050.1E for airport actions normally CE’d.
- Identifies extraordinary circumstances to consider in CE determinations
- Supplements significance thresholds in 1050.1E by providing intensity factors of impacts.
- Provides information on special purpose laws and regulations.
- Explains how to include agencies and public in the process.

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## FAA Draft Order 5050.4B

- Provides information about airport-related CEs, EAs, FONSIs, EISs, and RODs.
- More detailed guidance on the process than 5050.4A
- Information on 14 CFR Part 150, Noise Compatibility Planning.
- No Environmental Impact Categories included.  See Appendix A of 1050.1E and soon-to-follow Desk Reference.
- More guidance of role of Block Grant States in NEPA.
- New guidance on NEPA and Wildlife Hazard Management Plans

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## FAA Draft Order 5050.4B

- Supports 1050.1E guidance on:
- Documenting CEs,
- FONSI-RODs,
- EIS Consultant Selection, and
- Environmental Stewardship and Streamlining.
- Provides an example of a “Short-form” EA.

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## Useful Internet Sites

**Links to FAA Orders 5050.4A, Draft 5050.4B, 1050.1E, and FAA Records of Decision (ROD’s):**
**faa.gov/arp/environmental**

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## Useful Internet Sites

**Links to the following:**
**FAA Order 1050.1E**
**CEQ and EPA NEPA Sites**
**40 Most Asked Questions Concerning CEQ’s NEPA Regulations**
**NEPA**
**www.aee.faa.gov/aee-200**

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## New Environmental Orders

**Questions/Discussion**
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