Region IV 2017 Environmental Training Workshop

2017 Region IV Environmental Training Workshop presentation by Sandra Frye, Region IV Environmental Officer

Under the auspices of the Atlanta Regional Office of Environment and Energy, the 2017 Region IV Environmental Training Workshop was recently conducted in the Atlanta Regional Office Building, Montalvo Conference Center. Nearly sixty attendees, from throughout the Southeast to include Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands attended representing local governments, grantees and Public Housing Authorities responsible for completing environmental reviews under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 24 CFR Part 58 attended from throughout the Southeast.

"From my perspective it was one of the most useful, relevant, well organized and thoughtfully conducted training events I have been to in a long time," said John Donachie, Senior Planner, Housing and Community Development, Town of Cary, North Carolina. Thanks to the leadership and combined efforts of Sandra Frye, Region IV Environmental Officer, Al Cazzoli, Senior Field Environmental Officer (FEO) and Len Smith, Ramona McConney and Chuck Melton, Field Environmental Officers the workshop was a total success and plans are to conduct another next year.

Michael German, Georgia Field Office, provides welcome to Region IV Environmental Training Workshop

An environmental review is the process of reviewing a project and its potential environmental impacts to determine whether it meets federal, state, and local environmental standards. The environmental review process is required for all HUD-assisted projects to ensure that the proposed project does not negatively impact the surrounding environment and that the property site itself will not have an adverse environmental or health effect on end users. Not every project is subject to a full environmental review (i.e., every project's environmental impact must be examined, but the extent of this examination varies), but every project must follow the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and other related Federal and state environmental laws.

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