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1 1.1 Guidebook Overview The Guidebook serves as a best practices and recommendations manual for professionals who seek to integrate the environmental review and sustainability planning processes at airports. The goal of the Guidebook is to (1)
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2 Integrating Sustainability Planning and the Environmental Review Process The Guidebook is organized into four chapters: Chapter 1: Introduction to the Guidebook, Chapter 2: How to Integrate Sustainability Planning into the Environmental Review Process, Chapter 3: How to Leverage the Environmental Review Process for Sustainability Planning, and Chapter 4: Tools and Resources. 1.2 How to Use the Guidebook This Guidebook is designed to be user-friendly and easy to navigate, providing useful information for a wide variety of aviation and sustainability professionals.
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Introduction to the Guidebook 3 1.3.1 What Does Integrating Sustainability Planning and the Environmental Review Process Mean? Integrating sustainability planning and environmental review means making sure that a project's elements of and contributions to sustainability are considered and incorporated, where feasible, while that project undergoes the environmental review process.
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4 Integrating Sustainability Planning and the Environmental Review Process Figure 1-1 presents an overview of some of the areas where sustainability planning and the environmental review process can be integrated. 1.3.3 Case Study -- Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport (IWA)
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Introduction to the Guidebook 5 1.3.4 Organizational Integration at a Strategic Level There are several areas in which aviation practitioners can integrate sustainability into their work. First, aviation practitioners can explore opportunities where sustainability considerations can be integrated into environmental review processes and ways to leverage environmental reviews for sustainability planning.
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6 Integrating Sustainability Planning and the Environmental Review Process Council International–North America (ACI–NA) developed a definition of sustainability that considers operational aspects of airports.
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Introduction to the Guidebook 7 installing a green roof on a terminal can contribute to keeping the facility cool during hot days, which subsequently helps reduce energy demand for cooling the facility; the green roof can also help reduce stormwater runoff, which then minimizes or prevents pollutants from entering nearby water bodies. In 2009, the FAA established the Airport Sustainability Pilot Program to encourage airports to develop new sustainability plans or modify existing airport master plans to incorporate sustainability principles.
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8 Integrating Sustainability Planning and the Environmental Review Process advance sustainability efforts. Ad hoc efforts are more likely to be prevalent at general aviation airports than at larger, commercial service airports.
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Introduction to the Guidebook 9 • Development of a draft NEPA document, which typically describes action alternatives analysis (including no-action and proposed action) , environmental impact analysis, and proposed mitigation; • Publishing the document and providing opportunities for public comment; • Development of a final NEPA document (if required)
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10 Integrating Sustainability Planning and the Environmental Review Process through which federal agencies must evaluate the potential effects of major federal actions on the human and natural environment. CEQ procedures direct federal agencies to develop agency-specific procedures, defining how their projects are reviewed in a manner consistent with NEPA and CEQ procedures to achieve the goals of NEPA.
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Introduction to the Guidebook 11 The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency promotes the use of a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) tool that contributes to informed decisions in support of sustainable development by incorporating environmental considerations into the development of public policies and strategic decisions.
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12 Integrating Sustainability Planning and the Environmental Review Process Key Term Definition or Description Public Engagement Public engagement refers to activities related to programs, projects, or initiatives that require public hearings, public meetings, public notices, or other informational publications. Public engagement is required under environmental regulations and commonly used in preparing sustainability plans.
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Introduction to the Guidebook 13 1.7 Quick Start Guide This Quick Start Guide provides a list of actions that practitioners can use to improve the integration of sustainability planning as well as management and operations and environmental review processes at their airport. Planning : Encourage consideration of sustainability principles in early project planning and conceptual design phases of projects.
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14 Integrating Sustainability Planning and the Environmental Review Process 1.8 Key Takeaways The following are key takeaways for integrating sustainability considerations into the environmental review process and leveraging the environmental review process for sustainability planning: • Explore opportunities to update or modify relevant airport policies and procedures, ensuring that decision-making and proposed actions include sustainability considerations and that such efforts are implemented in a consistent manner (see Section 1.3.4)
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