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Chelsea
Charter Consensus
Process for the
Massachusetts Executive
Office of Administration
and Finance, Office
of the Receiver:
consensus process
reached deep into
community to re-engage
citizens in self-governance
through development
of a city charter
after the city government
was stripped of
its authority and
placed under State
Receivership. |
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| Comprehensive
Environmental Management
Plan for Casco Bay
(ME) for the U.S.
Environmental Protection
Agency, National Estuary
Program with Maine
Department of Environmental
Protection Agency:
consensus process
for federal, state,
and local government,
industry, citizens,
scientists, environmentalists,
and other stakeholders
to develop Casco Bay
Estuary Project’s
Comprehensive Conservation
and Management Plan,
which covered combined
sewer overflows, development,
citizen environmental
stewardship, wastewater,
and existing toxic
sediments. |
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| Memorandum
of Understanding for
the Boston Metropolitan
Planning Organization
(MPO): governance
document for transportation
planning organization
for Eastern Massachusetts.
The Boston MPO, composed
of 17 government agencies
including federal,
state, regional, and
local government entities,
is responsible for
programming approximately
$120 million annually
in road, bridge, and
transit projects and
the $14 billion central
artery project. |
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| Re-Evaluate
Environmental Regulations
to Ensure Protection
of Children’s
Health for U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency,
Office of Children’s
Health Protection:
Representatives ranging
from pesticide industry
to environmental organizations
selected technology-based
regulations for re-evaluation
as risk-based regulations
to make them more
protective of children’s
health. |
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| Jerusalem
Inter Cultural Center:
consultation on implementation
of Ramot Municipal
Council charter, which
was inhibited by endemic
religious-secular
dispute. |
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| Guiding
Principles for Redeveloping
Steel-Industry Brownfields,
U.S. Environmental
Agency, Office of
Water and Region V:
Brownfields work group
of the Common Sense
Initiative, Iron and
Steel Subcommittee,
developed guiding
principles for brownfields
redevelopment, model
legislation for brownfields
authorities, protocols
for brownfield Supplemental
Environmental Projects
(SEPs), and oversight
of brownfields pilots
in Northwest Indiana
and Birmingham, Alabama. |
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| Traffic
Forecasting Assumptions
for Proposed Development
on Cape Cod, Massachusetts:
agreement on traffic
forecasting assumptions
to be used to assess
impacts of CanalSide
Commons, a proposed
850,000 sq. ft. mixed
use development, the
largest ever proposed
on Cape Cod, near
the Bourne Rotary,
a major road artery
in the region. |
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| Wetlands
Permits under the
Massachusetts Department
of Environmental Protection,
Wetlands Program:
mediated permit decisions
in or near wetlands
areas appealed by
either Conservation
Commissions or developers. |
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| Take
Reduction Plan for
U.S. Department of
Commerce, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, National
Marine Fisheries Service:
plan to reduce incidental
take of marine mammals
during commercial
fishing operations
as required under
the 1994 Amendments
to the Marine Mammal
Protection Act. Stakeholders,
including fishermen,
conservationists,
state and federal
government agencies,
scientists, regional
fisheries management
councils, and off-shore
concerns, sought to
protect marine mammals
and maintain a viable
fishing industry. |
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| Protocols
and Shared Expectations
for Relationship between
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency
and Community Activists
at the Palmerton,
PA Zinc Superfund
Site: developed
protocols to govern
relationship between
EPA staff and community
activist groups. The
company responsible
for the cleanup is
the largest employer
in the town and a
generous donor to
community charities
and organizations. |
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| National
Commission on Energy
Policy: developed
governing protocols
for Commission, including
decision-making rules,
voting procedures,
guidelines for media
interactions, and
procedures for filling
Commissioner vacancies.
The NCEP is a bi-partisan
commission that recently
released its consensus
national energy plan.
For more information,
please see www.energycommission.org. |
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| Canadian
Constitutional Convention:
part of a team that
designed format of
the constitutional
convention to address
secession of Quebec
and federal power
sharing. |
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| Select
Brownfields Sites
for Phase I Site Assessment,
in New Bedford, MA,
U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency:
city-wide task group
developed a process
to identify priority
sites, from a list
of 300+ sites, to
determine allocation
of existing and future
phase I assessment
funds. |
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