Executive Order 13274
Integrated Planning Work Group

Introduction

Case Study Highlights

California: Riverside County

The Riverside County Integrated Project (RCIP) incorporates three formerly distinct plans: a General Plan for land use and housing, a Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP) to determine which land should be set aside as open space and maintained for plant and animal conservation, and the Community and Environmental Transportation Acceptability Process (CETAP) identifying improvements for highways and transit systems. CETAP focuses on two internal corridors and two inter county corridors, and was identified as a priority project in EO 13274, the Environmental Streamlining EO.

Colorado: North Front Range MPO

Colorado’s Strategic Transportation, Environmental, and Planning Process for Urban Places (STEP-UP) improves project evaluation on environmental issues in the regional planning processes, engages full and early participation of all relevant agencies, improves the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) decision making process, and informs the local project prioritization process.

Florida: Efficient Transportation Decision Making (ETDM) Process

The ETDM process is composed of three phases— planning, programming, and project development— to create a process for early and continuous resource agency input into the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) environmental review, decision making, and permitting processes. Throughout the ETDM process, the Environmental Screening Tool (EST), an Internet-accessible interactive database tool, is used to document project changes, evaluate impacts, and communicate project details to agencies and the public.

North Carolina: Environmental Stewardship Policy

The Environmental Stewardship Policy is an integrated planning strategy of the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to increase the collaboration and consideration of natural resource agency issues into the planning process.

Oregon: Collaborative Environmental and Transportation Agreement for Streamlining (CETAS)

CETAS establishes a formal working committee with representatives from the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) and 10 Federal and State transportation, natural resource, cultural resource, and land-use planning agencies to coordinate and review ODOT plans.

Texas: Texas Environmental Resource Stewards (TERS) and Texas Ecological Assessment Protocol (TEAP)

TERS is a group of executive-level staff from Federal, State, and local agencies. TERS provides the oversight vision and a team of technical specialists to develop an ecological assessment tool for resources in the State of Texas. The resulting TEAP is a shared model using data and mapping of locations that TERS member agencies considered “ ecologically important.”