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Montana Environmental Policy Act
Training for State Employees

Questions?
Contact Hope Stockwell (444-9280), hstockwell@mt.gov
or
Joe Kolman (444-3747), jkolman@mt.gov
in the Legislative Environmental Policy Office


Training Materials

No future MEPA training is scheduled at this time. However, please feel free to review our course materials on your own.

Course slides

Basics of MEPA, 2012


MEPA Cheat Sheets (for-office resource)

MEPA process flowchart, updated
EA and EIS rules/statutes and substantive/procedural differences, updated
Regulatory impact analysis guidelines
Actions excluded or exempt from MEPA review, updated
Cumulative effects: a 5-step checklist


MEPA Mini Courses, 2010

1) Writing an EA, Presented by Rebecca Cooper (FWP) and Sonya Germann (DNRC)
    Course slides
    Format recommendations for EAs
    Online resources for conducting an environmental analysis
2) MEPA vs. NEPA, Presented by Todd Everts (LSD), Mike O'Herron (DNRC), and Julia Riber (USFS)
    Differences between MEPA and NEPA
    Writing a joint MEPA/NEPA document
3) MEPA Project Design and Management, Presented by Alice Stanley (DNRC), Sundi West (Military Affairs), and Terry Grotbo (Geomatrix)
    Things that can go wrong and ways to avoid schedule busters
    Example project management plan


MEPA legal memos

What agency (FWP) actions are subject to MEPA? Todd Everts, July 2002
Is the Board of Environmental Review's mercury emissions rulemaking subject to MEPA? Todd Everts, May 2006
Is the Department of Livestock's brucellosis surveillance order subject to MEPA? Todd Everts, February 2010


Other MEPA Resources


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