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The Office of Environmental Services conducts training for ODOT staff and consultants in a variety of discipline specific areas for the purposes of complying with National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Each training course is specially designed to provide the latest regulatory requirements and updates on ODOT’s process for completing NEPA documents for transportation projects. A course listing is provided below with registration capabilities

Consultants should be registered on the OES List Serve:
majordomo@listserv.dot.state.oh.us 


Training Class Location Date Cost Description Target Audience  

Registration

 

Waterway Permits

ODOT- CENTRAL OFFICE

Postponed for Rule Changes & Updating.

 

Please Register for Future Waiting List.

N/C

This training is an overview of waterway permits with an emphasis on the methods and techniques required for the completion of waterway permits applications for ODOT projects. This one-day training course will be based on ODOT’s Waterway Permits Manual, Sections 401 and 404 on the Clean Water Act, and Ohio’s Isolated Wetland laws, ORC 6111.

ROOM 1C

Class General Information

 Waterway Permits Agenda

 

Consultants who are involved with the preparation of waterway permit applications such as Principal Investigators, Project Directors, and Project Managers with direct involvement with scoping, executing, reporting, and approving waterway permit work are required to attend.

Firms may send other staff members such as Environmental Specialists, Planners, and other Ecological/Permits Professional; however they are not required to send all environmental staff to the training.

 

Contact:

Doug App

(614) 644-0170 Doug.App@dot.state.oh.us

 

 

 

Ecological Training

ODOT- CENTRAL OFFICE

Postponed for Rule Changes & Updating.

 

Please Register for Future Waiting List.

N/C

 

This Training is an overview of ecological documentation and coordination with an emphasis on the methods and technique required for the completion of ecological documents for ODOT's projects.               

ROOM 1C

Class General Information

Ecological Training Agenda

 

Consultants who are involved with the preparation of ecological documentation such as Principal Investigators, Project Directors and Project Managers with direct involvement  with scoping , executing, reporting and approving waterway permit work are required to attend.

Contact: 

Doug App

(614) 644-0170 Doug.App@dot.state.oh.us

 

 

Project Development Process  (PDP)

ODOT- CENTRAL OFFICE - AUDITORIUM

Please Register for Future Waiting List.

N/C

 

ODOT's PDP will be required on all ODOT-let projects; including those sponsored by Public Agencies. The training will become part of ODOT's environmental and upcoming prequalification  requirements. 

Class General Information

Agenda

PDP Manual for Download

 

Consultants and LPAs who will work on ODOT's transportation projects 

Contact:

Valerie Norris

(614)466-1484

Valerie.Norris@dot.state.oh.us

 

Section 4(f)

ODOT- CENTRAL OFFICE

Room "GA"

Sept. 17, 2008

N/C

 

Topic will include CFR 771.135 Section 4(f), nationwide and FHWA/ODOT programmatic agreements, use of the handbook and appropriate checklists and the writing and assembly of approvable Section 4(f) documents. Initial workshops will be led by FHWA and OES personnel.

 

A one day class designed for district environmental staff and consultants who prepare environmental documents.

 

Contact:

Doug App

(614) 644-0170 Doug.App@dot.state.oh.us

 

 

Section 106

ODOT- CENTRAL OFFICE

Please register on the waiting list for the next class,

N/C

Section 106 Class Agenda

Section 106 Class General Information

 

Consultants who are involved with cultural resources investigations, such as Principal Investigators, Project Directors and Project Managers with direct involvement with scoping, executing, reporting and approving cultural resources work are required to attend. (Firms may send other staff such as Environmental Specialists, Planners and other Cultural Resources Professionals; however, they are not required to send all environmental or cultural staff to take the training). 

 

Contact:

Doug App

(614) 644-0170 Doug.App@dot.state.oh.us

 

 

1-Week NEPA Class

ODOT'S CENTRAL OFFICE THE WEEK OF:

November 3, 2008

$500

General Class Info.

"Cost Information"

 

This is a one-week class designed to help Project Managers gain a better understanding of the various aspects of planning and project development and to guide them in making better NEPA process decisions when working on transportation projects.  Consultants who want to become prequalified with ODOT to prepare Environmental Assessments (EAs) or Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) are required to take this class to meet prequalification requirements.    And, Project Managers over Major ODOT transportation projects are required to take this class.

 

 

Contact:

Valerie Norris

(614)466-1484;   Valerie.Norris@dot.state.oh.us

 

 

(Consultant) Environmental Update Meeting

ODOT- CENTRAL OFFICE

Pre-registration is not required.

N/C

Pre-registration is NOT required!!!

Agenda

DOWNLOAD OF ALL PRESENTATIONS GIVEN AT THE June 8, 2006 MEETING. (ZIP FILE ~80mb)

OPEN TO ALL

Contact:

Doug App

(614) 644-0170 Doug.App@dot.state.oh.us

 

 

Categorical Exclusion (CE) Class

ODOT- CENTRAL OFFICE

Room "GA"

RESCHEDULED!

Aug 14, 2008 to Aug 15, 2008

N/C

Subjects include project description, purpose and need statements, alternative discussion, ecological resources, Section4(f), cultural resources, air quality, noise community impacts, public involvement and permits. Taught by OES staff, this course goes through a sample project, while showing appropriate example text and placement of the text.

A two-day training class developed to better inform and educate consultants, this CE class is a requirement for all consultants who work on environmental documents for state and local transportation projects.

Contact:

Doug App

(614) 644-0170 Doug.App@dot.state.oh.us

 

 

Purpose & Need Training

 

ODOT- CENTRAL OFFICE

Room "GB"

Aug 27, 2008

N/C

 

This course will expand the knowledge

and skills of front-line transportation practitioners

in development and preparation of Purpose and Need (P&N) statements as part of planning and environmental documents for the fulfillment of complying with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Agenda

Class General Information

 

A one day class designed for anyone who prepares environmental documents. This training class was developed to better inform and educate participants of the requirements to prepare a "Purpose and Need Statement" and what is expected in a "high quality" P&N Statement. 

Contact:

Doug App

(614) 644-0170 Doug.App@dot.state.oh.us

 

 


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