Position Summary:
The incumbent serves as the NEPA/Appeals & Litigation coordinator for NEPA, CEQ, NFMA, FOIA, and Appeals and Litigation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Provide advice to management on the administrative appeals/objections process.
- Develop legal documents including litigation reports, compliance agreements, mitigation plans, environmental analyses and/or environmental impact statements.
- Interpret changes, decisions and directions regarding environmental policies that would affect the organization.
- Ensure accuracy and completeness of the administrative record for each lawsuit.
- Coordinate final evaluation and review of environmental analysis documents to ensure compliance with multiple environmental policy requirements.
- Provide technical and administrative supervision to subordinate employees.
- Liaison with the public, federal, state, local government officials, special interest groups, tribal representatives, and agency stakeholders to provide interpretation of National Environmental Policy Act and environmental act and policy requirements
- Mediate conflicting viewpoints of interdisciplinary team members on preparation and processing of categorical exclusions, environmental assessments and environmental impact statements.
Required Education & Experience:
- Degree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree that included a major field of study in biological sciences, agriculture, natural resource management, chemistry, or related disciplines appropriate to the position.
- Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
- Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- Degree: Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor’s or higher degree that included a major field of study in behavioral or social science; or related disciplines appropriate to the position.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
- Successful completion of one year probationary period, unless previously served.
- You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as one or more of the following: .Planned, directed, and advised personnel on compliance efforts regarding National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), regulations of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and organizational policy; mediated conflicting viewpoints of Interdisciplinary Team (IDT) members on preparation and processing of categorical exclusions, environmental assessments and environmental impact statements; executed and coordinated final evaluation and review of environmental analysis documents for natural resource related projects and/or programs to ensure compliance with multiple environmental policy requirements; communicated with Federal, state and local government officials, special interest groups, general public and stakeholders to provide interpretation of requirements and applicability of NEPA, CEQ, FOIA, objections, appeals, and litigation.