Environmental Permitting and Exceptions Program (Pre-Pay Discount 10%)

Learn how cultural resource concerns can help or hinder your community or development projects and how these concerns can derail environmental review or become part of a community's sustainable design strategy. Gain an understanding of key historic preservation laws and how historic preservation can be an asset for community revitalization as well as for successful commercial and residential projects. Explore practical issues involved with implementation and avoid unnecessary delays in environmental reviews by learning how to comply with historic preservation requirements under CEQA and NEPA, as well as Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.

Course Format and Pacing
This is an online remote learning course delivered through UC Davis CPE’s learning management system, Canvas, with a supplemental live session hosted on Zoom. The course consists of approximately 6.5 hours of content, combining pre-recorded lectures with a mandatory live Zoom session led by the instructor(s).

The web of environmental laws and regulations in California is famously complex and ever evolving. Gain a comprehensive overview of the California regulatory landscape and learn how to navigate the key legal and regulatory requirements for implementing your projects. This online course provides a practical understanding of federal, state and local environmental laws and regulations and how these requirements interact throughout the project development stage. Through pre-recorded lectures and live instruction, you’ll cover the regulatory process from site identification to implementation, including entitlements and construction, and explore potential compliance challenges through a discussion of case studies. By the end of this course, you will have gained an understanding of the relationships between various environmental process requirements, become familiar with key agencies, and learned how to anticipate potential challenges and identify strategies for overcoming process hurdles.

This course is designed for environmental planners and managers, engineers and operations professionals in public works or similar roles, and other professionals in land and infrastructure management, real estate development and environmental management.

Learning Outcomes

• Accurately integrate the costs and schedule for navigating the environmental process into project planning
• Assess environmental risks as part of initial project planning
• Identify when a project may require detailed environmental review and permitting

Skills You Will Gain

• Environmental planning
• Environmental permitting
• Project planning

Course Format and Pacing
This is an online remote learning course delivered through UC Davis CPE’s learning management system, Canvas, with supplemental live sessions hosted on Zoom. The course consists of approximately 6.5 hours of content, combining pre-recorded lectures with a mandatory live Zoom session led by the instructor(s).

Learn how to integrate environmental permitting and consultation requirements for projects subject to CEQA and NEPA. These acts affect natural or cultural resources, therefore many projects that are subject to CEQA and NEPA also require compliance with other major state and federal environmental laws. To obtain timely and cost-effective project approvals, CEQA/NEPA lead agencies and project applicants must navigate a complex permitting and consultation maze, including regulation of wetlands, endangered species and historic resources.

Receive an organized and proven 10-step strategy to:

• Understand procedural and substantive requirements of major permitting and consultation programs
• Determine which agencies must be consulted for review and permits
• Integrate various environmental compliance requirements into the environmental process in order to improve the permitting processes
• Reduce the time and cost of preparing environmental documents and implementing projects

Course Format and Pacing
This is an online remote learning course delivered through UC Davis CPE’s learning management system, Canvas, with supplemental live sessions hosted on Zoom. The course consists of approximately 6.5 hours of content, combining pre-recorded lectures with a mandatory live Zoom session led by the instructor(s).