Environmental Regulatory Compliance Professional

Idaho National Laboratory • Idaho, Idaho Falls • 1w ago

Idaho National Laboratory is hiring an Environmental Regulatory Compliance Professional to work in our EMS NEPA & Reporting Services Department (This is a project hire position for up to 2 years). Our team works onsite with a 9x80 schedule located out of our Willow Creek Building in Idaho Falls with every other Friday off. You will support facilities, operations and R&D programs in the identification and implementation of environmental requirements to ensure compliance with applicable rules which may include support of regulatory interpretations, resolution of potential or actual compliance issues, identification of required permits, collection of samples, and gathering and reporting of data that must be collected and reported by regulation. You will report to the manager of our EMS, NEPA, and Reporting Services Department. Responsibilities Include: - Responsible for National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) efforts to support INL Environmental Impact Statements (EISs), develop INL Environmental Assessments (EAs), and provide direction and guidance on categorical exclusion (CX) determinations. Gather, analyzes and assembles information to determine environmental impacts associated with projects across all INL mission centers. - Collaborate with INL NEPA Lead and staff, DOE-ID Management and NEPA Compliance Officer, stakeholders, and INL Senior Management and staff to ensure NEPA compliance for the INL mission. Perform NEPA analysis for projects not fully defined in existing NEPA documentation. - May serve as lead author for INL EAs and other NEPA-related documents. Conduct scoping meetings, leading the development of content, and preparing a final EA and Finding of No Significant Impact documents for DOE as assigned. - Work with deployed environmental staff and researchers to prepare and approve comprehensive NEPA EA documents, across various mission centers at INL and makes recommendations to the NEPA Lead, management, program environmental leads (PELs) and environmental field staff to ensure that environmental regulatory requirements and adherence to laws, regulations, and policy are adequately addressed. - Review and interpret highly technical reports on a variety of subjects, such as air quality, archaeological and historic resources, biology, geology, hazardous materials, hydrology, traffic, and other regulatory requirements and summarize these reports in non-technical language understandable to a lay person. - Help develop NEPA strategies for specific projects and activities. Recommend appropriate level of environmental analysis for federal actions at the INL to projects, management, and DOE-ID. Present and answer additional comments and questions from DOE and the public on the prepared NEPA documentation. Provide technical direction for INL's environmental review process. - Maintain expertise of all existing NEPA regulations and actively monitor for proposed changes in federal, state, and local environmental regulations.