Environmental Information
The Division of Local Assistance provides guidance on environmental procedures and liaison services between local agencies and their transportation counterparts in Caltrans, FHWA, and Resource Agencies. For assistance with environmental concerns, please contact your District Local Assistance Engineer.
Local Assistance Environmental Products include:
Local Assistance has collaborated closely with the Caltrans Division of Environmental Analysis in the development of a Standard Environmental Reference (SER). The SER will enable local agencies to develop consistently superior environmental documents, according to the criteria of the various agencies which review them. The SER is a work in progress. It is being made available, online, as it becomes available:
- Standard Environmental Reference (SER) Also referred to as Volume I of the Caltrans Environmental Handbook: Guidance for Compliance. (Available online, only.) Subsequent volumes of the Handbook provide more in-depth coverage of some topics covered in Volume I (see links below).
- SER: Federal Environmental Laws that may affect Transportation Projects
- SER: State Environmental Laws that may affect Transportation Projects
- Volume II, CT Env Handbook: Cultural Resources
(available as pdf download, only) - Volume III, CT Env Handbook: Biological Resources
(also available as pdf download) - Volume IV, CT Env Handbook: Community Impact
(available as pdf download, only) - Volume V, CT Env Handbook: Storm Water
(under construction at this time. Please see Caltrans Storm Water Management site for general information regarding Storm Water management.) - Volume VI, CT Env Handbook: Hazardous Waste Management
You may also find the following links useful:
- National Environmental Policy Act
- Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ): Regulations for Implementing NEPA
- FHWA's Policies and Procedures for Implementing NEPA (23 CFR 771)
- FHWA Technical Advisory 6640.8a (TA 6640.8a)
- FHWA Environmental Guidebook
- FHWA California Division Checklist for "Draft" and "Final" Environmental Documents