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Innovation in environmental streamlining and project delivery: Oregon State bridge delivery program : final report
Gaines, Lisa; Lurie, Susan; Institute for Natural Resources
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Innovation in Environmental Streamlining and Project Delivery The Oregon State Bridge Delivery Program.pdf
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2007-01
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This report examines the Bridge Program efforts undertaken, methods used, obstacles encountered, accomplishments, and lessons learned. It is not a performance evaluation; it is a case study focusing on the social, organizational and institutional dynamics of transforming a vision for environmental streamlining into a working program. The Bridge Program is complex as well as innovative. The report therefore emphasizes particular innovative aspects of the program, requiring significant collaborative relationships, rather than describing all program facets in detail.
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Thematic Classification::Land and People::Land Use
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ...........................................................................................................v;
1.0 INTRODUCTION..................................................................................................................1;
2.0 THE CASE STUDY...............................................................................................................3;
2.1 BACKGROUND .................................................................................................................3;
2.2 METHODOLOGY ..............................................................................................................3;
3.0 TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENTAL STREAMLINING......5;
3.1 ROAD ECOLOGY AND CONTEXT SENSITIVE TRANSPORTATION PLANNING .5;
3.2 THE NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT AND TRANSPORTATION
PLANNING........................................................................................................................6;
3.3 ENVIRONMENTAL STREAMLINING............................................................................6;
3.3.1 Environmental streamlining at the federal level..........................................................7;
3.3.2 Pre-Bridge Program environmental streamlining in Oregon.......................................7;
3.3.3 Research on environmental streamlining ....................................................................8;
3.4 BENEFITS OF COLLABORATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL STREAMLINING .....9;
3.5 BARRIERS TO COLLABORATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL STREAMLINING ..10;
4.0 HISTORY AND CONTEXT OF THE STATE BRIDGE DELIVERY PROGRAM....11;
4.1 OREGON BRIDGES 1950s-2000: A LOOMING CRISIS...............................................11;
4.2 THE ‘OREGON WAY’: ENVIRONMENT AND ECONOMY.......................................12;
4.3 LEGISLATION ESTABLISHING THE STATE BRIDGE PROGRAM.........................13;
4.4 ODOT: REORGANIZATION AND NEW DIRECTIONS ..............................................14;
5.0 THE STATE BRIDGE DELIVERY PROGRAM...........................................................15;
5.1 CORRIDOR APPROACH AND STAGED CONSTRUCTION......................................15;
5.2 ORGANIZATION OF PROGRAM MANAGEMENT ....................................................16;
5.3 OREGON’S CONTEXT SENSITIVE AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS (CS3) .......17;
5.4 “ONE PROCESS” PROGRAMMATIC PERMITTING STRATEGY.............................18;
5.4.1 Environmental baseline reports .................................................................................19;
5.4.2 Environmental performance standards ......................................................................19;
5.4.3 Comprehensive mitigation and conservation banking ..............................................20;
6.0 STRATEGIES TO BUILD TRUST AND DEVELOP THE PROGRAM......................23;
6.1 ENTREPRENEURIAL LEADERSHIP ............................................................................23;
6.2 A VISION OF GREEN BRIDGES....................................................................................24;
6.3 GETTING ODOT, STAKEHOLDER AND LEGISLATIVE BUY-IN............................25;
6.4 GETTING PARTNER AGENCY BUY-IN: PROVIDING LIAISONS...........................25;
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6.5 CETAS: A FOUNDATION FOR COLLABORATIVE RELATIONSHIPS ...................27;
6.6 ESTABLISHING COMMON GROUND AND EXPECTATIONS: THE 2002
WORKSHOPS...................................................................................................................27;
6.7 TIERED NEGOTIATION.................................................................................................30;
6.8 THE ROLE OF COMMITTEES IN MAINTAINING COLLABORATIVE
RELATIONSHIPS.............................................................................................................31;
6.9 PUTTING THE RIGHT PEOPLE ON THE PROJECT ...................................................31;
6.10 STRENGTHENING UNDERSTANDING AND COMPLIANCE THROUGH
TRAINING ........................................................................................................................32;
7.0 CHALLENGES....................................................................................................................33;
7.1 INTRA-ORGANIZATIONAL CHALLENGES...............................................................33;
7.1.1 Internal inertia and autonomy issues .........................................................................33;
7.1.2 The regions and crossover bridge projects ................................................................34;
7.2 CONTRACTING...............................................................................................................35;
7.3 LANGUAGE, TRAINING AND INSTITUTIONAL BARRIERS ..................................36;
7.4 TRUST: A COMPLEX RELATIONSHIP........................................................................37;
7.5 CREATING AND MAINTAINING COLLABORATIVE INSTITUTIONS ..................38;
8.0 LESSONS LEARNED AND CONCLUSIONS.................................................................41;
8.1 LESSONS LEARNED.......................................................................................................41;
8.1.1 Take advantage of urgency to bring about change....................................................41;
8.1.2 Have a solid strategy for selling the program............................................................41;
8.1.3 Work with stakeholders and partners to create a shared vision.................................42;
8.1.4 Ensure leadership commitment at top levels .............................................................42;
8.1.5 Involve entrepreneurial, well-regarded staff .............................................................42;
8.1.6 Develop an outcome based outlook...........................................................................43;
8.1.7 Create a tiered process for negotiation ......................................................................43;
8.1.8 Be aware of how language, learning, laws and norms may influence interactions...43;
8.1.9 Provide training and education, both externally and internally.................................44;
8.2 CONCLUSIONS................................................................................................................44;
9.0 REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................47;
APPENDICES;
APPENDIX A: PROGRAM DELIVERY STAGES, 2004-2011;
APPENDIX B: GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
STANDARDS;
APPENDIX C: PRIMARY PROJECT DELIVERY METHODS
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