8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

This workshop is designed for both practitioners and researchers to provide an understanding of how resource planning and transportation planning are being integrated to ensure coordinated, transparent, and balanced results yielding solutions that protect the environment and advance the delivery of transportation projects. Joint planning (in keeping with Sections 6001, 6002, 3005, and 3006 of SAFETEA-LU) has received increasing emphasis.

Introductory Remarks About Integrated Planning Processes
Mark S. Kross, Missouri Department of Transportation

Overview of SAFETEA-LU Section 6001, 6002, 3005, and 3006
Shari M. Schaftlein, Federal Highway Administration

How Cultural Resource Protection Fits into SAFETEA-LU Planning Regulations
Don L. Klima, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

How Natural Resource Conservation Fits into SAFETEA-LU Planning Rules
Jeff Lerner, Defenders of Wildlife

Overview of Case Studies on Planning and Environmental Linkages

Closing Remarks
Anthony F. Opperman, Virginia Department of Transportation
Thomas E. Linkous, Westerville, Ohio
Andy Fekete, RBA Group
 

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MEETING
 

8:00 - 9:45 a.m.

Research Topics Subcommittee, Hilton
Joseph S. Shalkowski, I-69 Corridor Study GEC, presiding

WORKSHOPS
 

SESSION #286, Hilton

10:15 a.m.  - 12:00 p.m.

New Rules, New Partners: Inside Look at Mitigation Banking

Kris Hoellen, Conservation Fund, presiding
Sponsored by Environmental Analysis in Transportation Committee
 
The goal of this session is to provide participants with an understanding of the proposed federal mitigation banking rule and reveal how existing local land trusts and similar organizations can encourage a broader, more comprehensive perspective resulting in closer coordination of mitigation efforts and a cost savings to the public.

Department of Transportation Perspective and Business Case for Working
with Land Trusts
Martin Palmer, Washington State Department of Transportation

Long-Term Management Considerations
Sherry Teresa, Center for Natural Lands Management

Real Estate Protection Tools: Tips of the Trade and a National Land Trust Perspective
J. Reginald Hall, The Conservation Fund

Overview of New Mitigation Banking Rule
Palmer F. Hough, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Compensatory Mitigation Regulation
David B. Olson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers HQ02

MEETING
 

1:30 p.m.  - 3:15 p.m.

Natural Resources and Environmental Stewardship Subcommittee

Andy Fekete, RBA Group, presiding

WORKSHOPS
 

3:45 p.m.  - 5:30 p.m.

SESSION #370, Hilton

Partnerships Toward Ecological and Cultural Stewardship: Application of Geospatial Tools and Practices to Implement SAFETEA-LU

Thomas E. Linkous, Westerville, Ohio, presiding
Sponsored by:
Ecology and Transportation Committee (ADC30)
Geographic Information Science and Applications Committee (ABJ60)
Environmental Analysis in Transportation Committee (ADC10)
Historic and Archeological Preservation in Transportation Committee (ADC50)
Environmental Justice in Transportation Committee (ADD50)

Efforts to address the ecological impacts of development projects are particularly challenging for transportation planners, who must consider finite cultural, historic, and archaeological resources. Long-term ecological protection and timely project delivery are increasingly dependent on interdisciplinary solutions and coordination at regional and statewide planning levels. This session will discuss effective planning efforts across disciplines and across jurisdictional boundaries.

Mapping at Multiple Scales Using Consistent Wildlife-Habitat Classification to Integrate Transportation and Conservation Planning
Thomas O'Neill and Cory Langhoff, Northwest Habitat Institute

Application of Green Infrastructure Approach in Transportation Planning: Selected Case Studies Optimizing Ecological and Cultural Resource Protection and Environmental Justice
Ted Weber, The Conservation Fund

Proportional Method to Assess Environmental Justice Impacts Without Requiring Definition of Protected or Unprotected Geographic Units
Francisco Javier Torres, North Central Texas Council of Governments; Gina Barberio and Rachael Barolsky, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center; Michael Culp and Robert Ritter, Federal Highway Administration

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9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Mary S. Alfson, CHRS Inc., presiding
Sponsored by Environment and Energy Section

Environmental Analysis in Transportation Standing Committee

A Study of The Modification and Amendments of Environmental Permits for Design-Build Projects (Paper P08-0422)

1:30 - 3:15 p.m.

Streamlining Transportation Decision Making While Sustaining and Analyzing the Environment

James G. Bach, Louis Berger Group, Inc., presiding
Sponsored by Environmental Analysis in Transportation Committee

This session includes the best papers for presentation reviewed by the TRB Environmental Analysis in Transportation Committee in the past year, illustrating the diversity of issues considered within this committee's scope.

Planning and Environment Linkages: Using the PEL Umbrella Approach to Streamline Transportation Decision Making (Paper 08-1721)
Gina Barberio, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Rachael Barolsky, Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
Michael Culp, Federal Highway Administration
Robert Ritter, Federal Highway Administration

Tennessee's 2007 Environmental Procedures Manual Provides A New Resource For Environment Analysis And Documentation Under SAFETEA-LU (Paper 08-0144)
Nancy T. Skinner, PB Americas, Inc.
Doug Delaney, Tennessee Department of Transportation

Green Roads: Sustainability Rating System for Roadways (Paper 08-0803)
Martin Soderlund, Stantec, Inc.
Stephen T. Muench, University of Washington
Kim A. Willoughby, Washington State Department of Transportation
Jeffrey S. Uhlmeyer, Washington State Department of Transportation
Jim Weston, Washington State Department of Transportation

5:45 - 9:30 p.m.

Transportation Safety and the Environment
Mary L. McDonough, Federal Highway Administration

Center for Environmental Excellence
Shannon Eggleston, AASHTO