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SELECT ADMINISTRATION SITING AND PERMITTING INITIATIVES (continued) Designating Corridors for Pipelines, Electric Transmission Lines, and Related Infrastructure The Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture are conducting a periodic review of the Western energy rights-of-way corridors designated in 2009. As directed in the June 2013 Presidential Memorandum, DOE issued two reports—one for assessing potential corridors in the West, as proposed by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council, and one for the rest of the United States that looks at current and potential crossings for transmission lines and oil and gas pipelines on federally protected national trails. Landscape and Watershed Level and Mitigation and Conservation Planning Federal land management agencies have begun to implement mitigation and conservation planning at the landscape, ecosystem, or watershed level. For example, in March 2014, the Department of the Interior released the Solar “Regional Mitigation Strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone,” and in April 2014, Secretary Jewell issued the “Strategy for Improving the Mitigation Practices of the Department of the Interior.” agencies under them can use regulatory processes to apply that authority in intelligent and innovative ways. ah Some agencies do not have the statutory authority to recover such costs; others do not have authority to accept money until the application is “complete,” which puts a strain on resources and also discourages early coordination. BLM has addressed the challenge of the cost of early coordination by requiring in its recent proposed rule that applicants for rights of way for transmission lines of 100 kilovolts or greater and pipelines 10 inches or more in diameter pay reasonable or actual costs associated with the pre-application process for these projects. 48 Expanding Online Project Tracking and Developing Metrics The development and publication of timely metrics and milestones for project permitting enables public scrutiny, provides agencies with information to identify and improve permitting and siting processes, and increases accountability and predictability. 49, ai Moreover, consistent, government-wide data will provide actionable insight into current Federal permit and review practices, as well as inform discussions on ways to further improve the effectiveness and efficiency of these processes. Budgetary concerns have affected efforts to expand the Federal Infrastructure Projects Permitting Dashboard, aj to develop and collect permitting and review time-frame metrics, and to pilot environment and community outcome metrics. 50 Lack of funding also ah In its proposed rule, BLM has proposed expanding the regulatory definition of reimbursable “management overhead costs” to include costs incurred by other Federal agencies in reviewing the same project application (79 Fed. Reg. 59022; September 30, 2014). The cost reimbursement measures are intended to coincide with a Secretarial Order for delegation of Federal Land Policy Management Act cost-recovery authority to other agencies and offices of the Department of the Interior. ai DOE has such an online dashboard for electricity transmission projects. This dashboard, known as e-Trans, serves as the online database containing pertinent project information about each project, including, but not limited to, the physical aspects of the line, lead agency contact information, project schedules, and required permits. The e-Trans dashboard can be accessed at trackingsystem. nisc-llc.com/etrans/utility/Search.seam. aj The Federal Infrastructure Permitting Dashboard was launched in October 2011 and is used by all Steering Committee agencies and hosted by the Department of Transportation. See: Steering Committee on Federal Infrastructure Permitting and Review Process Improvement. “Implementation Plan for the Presidential Memorandum on Modernizing Infrastructure Permitting.” www.permits. performance.gov/pm-implementation-plan-2014.pdf. Accessed January 20, 2015. It features a public website that displays project schedules with key milestones for more than 50 infrastructure projects and an internal site with an information technology platform that supports effective government-wide collaboration and the development of interagency project schedules. See: Federal Infrastructure Projects Permitting Dashboard. “Projects Under Active Review.” www.permits.performance.gov/projects/active-projects. QER Report: Energy Transmission, Storage, and Distribution Infrastructure | April 2015 9-13
Chapter IX: Siting and Permitting of TS&D Infrastructure limits the promise of more widely accessible geographic information system (GIS) and information technology tools that would supplement the Federal Permit Inventory ak and provide more transparency and clarity to project sponsors and public stakeholders. Expanding Availability and Sharing of Data and GIS Tools Careful project planning and selection of an appropriate project site before a permit application is filed can minimize uncertainty and significantly reduce the overall time frame for completing necessary permits and reviews. 51 The Administration has identified a number of actions and policies to facilitate adequate collection, integration, and sharing of the best available data to assist project sponsors in siting projects in order to minimize resource impacts and support Federal decision making. 52 The Administration has also emphasized the importance of providing such data, information, and decision-support tools for climate preparedness and resilience to agencies and project sponsors. 53 Key Federal and state data sharing, GIS, and other information technology tools already in use for agencies and public stakeholders include (1) NEPAnode, a geospatial and document management system made freely available to Federal staff and contractors to implement NEPA and related environmental review and permitting processes; al (2) the Information, Planning, and Conservation Tool developed by a partnership between the Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey; am (3) the Environmental Protection Agency’s NEPAssist; an (4) the Eastern Interconnection States Planning Council’s Energy Zone Mapping Tool; ao (5) the Army Corps’ Federal Support Toolbox; ap (6) the DOE-funded Western Governors’ Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool; aq (7) the Department of Commerce’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Social Vulnerability Index; ar and (8) Climate.Data.Gov and the Climate ak The Permit Inventory is a searchable database of required permits and approvals, as well as NEPA reviews and milestones relating to major infrastructure projects. The inventory can be accessed at www.permits.performance.gov/permit-inventory. al This interactive mapping tool contains 278 data sets/layers. It can be accessed at nepanode.anl.gov. am The Information, Planning, and Conservation Tool system is an interactive, Web-based tool illustrating the natural resources for which the Fish and Wildlife Service has trust or regulatory responsibility. The tool allows interested parties to access a public website to determine if there are any Fish and Wildlife Service trust resources, including endangered and threatened species, in a potential project area before beginning the project design. In addition, project sponsors can get information about a species and its needs, as well as measures they can take to help protect and conserve the species when designing and constructing their project. The tool can be accessed at ecos.fws.gov/ipac.0 an NEPAssist is a Web-based mapping tool to facilitate efficient and effective environmental reviews and project planning. The tool is part of an initiative developed by the Environmental Protection Agency and selected as a pilot by the Council of Environmental Quality to showcase its potential to modernize and reinvigorate Federal agency implementation of NEPA through innovation, public participation, and transparency. The tool can be accessed at www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/nepassist-mapping.html. ao The Energy Zone Mapping Tool, funded by DOE, is a free online mapping tool that identifies potential clean energy resource areas within the Eastern Transmission Interconnection. This website provides information about the study, background on the energy resources, and details on the data layers used in the tool. The tool includes 263 GIS data layers and links to policies and regulations, printable maps, and related documents. The tool can be accessed at eispctools.anl.gov. ap The Federal Support Toolbox, launched in May 2013, is a comprehensive “one-stop-shop” online water resources data portal with direct links to valuable data, state-of-the-art models, and tools for utilization in information sharing and collaboration for the water resources community in the United States and internationally. It serves as a single point of entry to comprehensive information about water resources programs, initiatives, legislation, policies, regulations, collaborations, partnerships, databases, tools, models, data, research and development, education, and leadership that is housed on a participating agency’s or organization’s own server. aq The Western Governors’ Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool is an online system of maps that displays crucial wildlife habitat based on commonly agreed upon definitions developed by the Western Governors’ Wildlife Council. The tool provides information across 16 Western states and links to five state-level Crucial Habitat Assessment Tools; it will link to new state Crucial Habitat Assessment Tools as they become available. The tool can be accessed at www.westgovchat.org. ar The Social Vulnerability Index measures the social vulnerability of U.S. counties to environmental hazards and the ability of those counties to prepare for, respond to, and recover from hazards. The tool was developed through a partnership with the University of South Carolina and funding via South Carolina Sea Grant and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office for Coastal Management. The tool can be accessed at coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/sovi. 9-14 QER Report: Energy Transmission, Storage, and Distribution Infrastructure | April 2015
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Preface In June 2013, through the P
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