Experience in Various Policy/Issue Areas

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Forestry 

• Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and American Tree Farm System (ATFS): Improve Collaborative Efforts.
• SFI: Standards Review  - Public Meetings: Public input improving the Standard. 
• International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN): Organizational Evaluation of Negotiations Activities, Cameroon (Africa).
• Colorado Roadless Areas Review Task Force and public meetings: Governor and political party appointed members determined recommended management of "roadless" areas in Forest Service lands.

Water Resources 

• South Adams County Water and Sanitation District (SACWSD) - Water Hardness Stakeholder Group: District resident and businesses, City representatives, and SACWSD representatives build a consensus recommendation on whether to implement a District hardness filtration system to improve water quality and taste without significant increased costs.
• Snake River Task Force: EPA County, ski resorts, and water and wildlife activist representatives determined how to improve water quality, with or without the draining mine adit becoming a Superfund site.
• Idaho Power - Hells Canyon Complex, Settlement Working Group for Hydro-Relicensing: Over 50 representatives from Federal, state and local agencies,  five tribes, and many interest groups, tried to build agreement on how to manage water quality, quantity, recreation, wildlife, habitat, and energy to relicense the facility.

Marine Life 

• Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Team Meetings: Fishermen and associations, with federal and state agencies determine how to reduce dolphin takes in fishing.

• Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT): US85 (I-76 to 124th) Technical Advisory Committee - The major north/south  connector with growing development north-east of Denver metro area. 
• CDOT: I-70 East Preferred Alternative Collaborative Team (PACT), Denver, CO - The major east/west highway, with failing viaduct splitting a minority neighborhood, with a local elementary school or tax base at risk.
• CDOT - I-70 Mountain Corridor Collaborative Effort, CO- The major east/west connector in the mountain and the singular access to winter and summer recreation; widening would have dramatic impacts on mountain communities.
• Washington DOT: SH 520 Bridge Replacement Impact Plan, Seattle, WA - The major east/west connector across Lake Washington to address bridge fauilure and increased developments needs; widening has significant impacts on one community, as well as environmental impacts.
• Denver: I-25/South Broadway NEPA Process Citizen Consensus Committee, Denver, CO - The major north/south arterial to/from downtown intersection with the major north/south highway; sitting next to a historically listed building and an area zoned for 10 million square feet of mixed use; need to address existing  congestion and future needs with the desire to keep neighborhood character.
• MN & Wis DOTs: St Croix River Crossing Problem-Solving Stakeholder Group, Stillwater, MN - Current crossing is a iconic historic two-lane lift bridge with no shoulders; need to address mobility and safety needs current and those of future needs from development on the WI side; impacts include: increased development ; economic impacts; environmental impacts; and Wild and Scenic River Act impacts.

Climate Science 

• Northeast Climate Science Center
• Southwest Climate Science Center
• Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Desert and Southern Rockies
• Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Great Plains

Recycling 

• SERI: R2 Electronic Recycling Standards Review and Guidance Document Development - Advisory committee built agreement on revisions to the Standard.
• EPA, HQ: Sustainable Financing of Municipal Recycling - Manufactures, interest groups, and municipal representatives discussed financial responsibility for disposal of and how to decrease the amount of EOL packaging in landfills.

Hazardous waste 

• EPA: Shattuck Citizen Advisory Group - Citizens, local, state and federal representatives provided input on removal of the Superfund materials.

Urban Planning 

• Arapahoe County Strategic Planning - County commissioners revised their strategic direction, including detailed messages preceived budget impacts, and developed actions to achieve improved balance and fiscal sustainability. 
• City of Lakewood: Revision of City Council Policy and Procedures Manual - Council revised the policies to be clearer, and more reflective of current engagement, and added a  harassment policy, first in the state.
• Commerce City: Council Retreats (5) - Council set the priorities for the next year, initiating the months long budget process on the right path.

Environmental Planning 

• Pebble Mine Proposal, Alaska: Situation Assessment - Assessment of issues and stakeholders to develop a public and stakeholder engagement plan for developing a mine proposal
• FWS: Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge: Public and Stakeholder Engagement Process - Process to gather input to help determine FWS' protection and enjoyment of the recently DOD cleaned Rocky Flats nuclear trigger production facility that has extensive wildlife and open space.

Public Health 

• CDC: H1N1 Vaccination Program Level of Effort Public Input Process (8) - 100-people public meetings across the county on controversial vaccination effort.
• CDC: State Pandemic Influenza Planning, Nebraska and Minnesota - NE developed a plan to work with Tribes during a pandemic including tribal public meetings; and MN conducted public meetings on managing scare resources in the event of a pandemic.
• CDC: Vaccine Prioritization Process (8) - 100-people public meetings on how to allocate scarce resources in the event of a pandemic.
• CDC: National Health Goals (6) - Public meetings across the nation that ranked over 75 possible goals and objectives to help CDC set new health goals.

• DOE: Transmission Corridors (Section 1221 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005), Public Meetings - Public provided input on designating transmission corridors to improve permitting timelines.
• DOE: Compensation to Tribes for Energy ROW (Section 1813 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, Public Meetings (3) - Gather input from Tribes on fair and appropriate compensation for energy right-of-way easements on tribal lands.
• BLM & FS: Geothermal MOU - Develop and MOU to improve geothermal permitting process. 
• Western Governors: Update & Review Existing Resource Potential and Cost Data of Known Geothermal Site - Working to ensure geothermal development data is current for all future energy discussions.
• DOE: National Geothermal Collaborative - Determine challenges with geothermal development and address them with papers or collaborative efforts.
• White House: Rocky Mountain Energy Council - Federal and State agencies worked to improve energy and wildlife issues in the Rocky Mountain region.