Natural Resources Specialist
Natural Resources Specialist
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Duty Location: Sacramento, California
Salary
$54,203 - $104,280 per year
GS-07 salary range $54203 - $70,466
GS-09 salary range $66,300 - $86,190
GS-11 salary range $80,217 - $104,280.
Duties
-Reviews and provides comments on environmental impact statements and other environmental documents prepared by the Region and other agencies for compliance with policy directives and compliance with the provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), California Environmental Quality Act, Endangered Species Act, and other environmental statutes, executive orders, regulations, procedures, and the Reclamation NEPA Handbook.
-Synthesizes comments from other reviews and prepares letters of response for the Regional Director's signature.
-Reviews planning and other internal/external reports and data dealing with environmental problems and their solution to ensure environmental policy is articulated properly.
-Conducts follow up studies or monitors the effects of environmental management policies on activities in the California Great Basin (CGB) Region.
-Studies and monitors new developing issues in the environmental field that may have potential impact on Reclamation programs in CGB.
-Acts in a liaison capacity with other technical segments of the Regional Office, with natural resources specialists in Reclamation's Denver and Washington offices, and personnel in the project offices on environmental matters affected by various planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance phases and research efforts.
-Participates in resolution of conflicting interests and development of mutually advantageous courses of action in cooperation with other segments of the organization.
-Participates as member of special Reclamation committees, task forces and groups that are formed to address projects of a special or controversial nature to represent Regional environmental policy positions.
-Assembles, coordinates, and oversees interdisciplinary teams in the preparation and processing of assigned environmental impact statements, environmental assessments, environmental commitment plans, environmental assessments, environmental portions of planning reports and other environmental documents prepared by the CGB Region.
-Conducts environmental related public meetings with study team and cooperating agency personnel.
-Conducts workshops, hearings, meetings and interacts with public interest groups, water districts, individuals, and representatives of Federal, State, and local governments regarding all aspects of preparing and processing environmental documents.
-Assures the adequacy of environmental studies such as in-stream flow studies, habitat evaluation procedures (HEP), human use and economic evaluations (HUEE), special estuarine studies, recreation studies, flood plain management and wetland protection evaluations, consultation for rivers on the nationwide inventory, evaluations for effects to prime agricultural lands, studies of special ecosystems, Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) planning aid studies, study plans and others.