What triggers MEPA filing?
What triggers MEPA filing?
MEPA review is required if a project requires a State Agency Action and meets or exceeds a MEPA review threshold (outlined at 301 CMR 11.03). MEPA requires public study, disclosure, and development of feasible mitigation for a proposed project for which agency action is required.
What triggers MEPA review?
The MEPA regulations establish review thresholds for projects that are of a nature, size, or location likely to cause damage to the environment (directly or indirectly) as identified in the MEPA environmental review thresholds.
What is the Michigan Environmental Protection Act?
The Michigan Environmental Protection Act (MEPA), Part 17 of NREPA, MCL 324.1701-. 1706, authorizes courts to prevent conduct that harms the environment based on evidence presented in litigation. The statute modifies the traditional view that only public agencies protect the environment.
What is MEPA in foster care?
The Multiethnic Placement Act, as amended, enacted in 1994 and known as MEPA (or MEPA/IEP to acknowledge amendments passed in 1996), prohibits child welfare agencies that receive federal funding from delaying or denying foster or adoptive placements because of a child or prospective foster or adoptive parent’s race.
What is MEPA and IEPA?
MEPA/IEPA is the principal federal law that addresses the use of race, color, and national origin in making decisions about foster care and adoptive placements.
What is MEPA policy?
What is the purpose of MEPA?
The Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA) was enacted in 1994 with a goal to promote the best interests of children by ensuring that they have permanent, safe and stable families and homes.
How is MEPA funded?
Multiethnic Placement Act (MEPA) MEPA applies to any state child welfare system that receives funds from the federal government.
What is Title IV B of the Social Security Act?
Title IV-B of the Social Security Act is a child welfare funding stream available to. federally recognized tribes, tribal organizations, tribal consortia, and states. Operated. by the Children’s Bureau, an office of the Administration for Children and Families.
What is the IV-D program?
Established in 1975 under a new part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act, the government program, usually called the Title IV-D program is a Federal/State partnership whose primary mission is to enforce child support obligations against non-custodial parents.
What’s new with MEPA for enfs?
New MEPA protocol regarding climate change adaptation and resiliency will be in effect for all ENFs/EENFs as of October 1, 2021. Sep. 8, 2021, 04:30 pm New transitional requirements regarding environmental justice outreach apply to all ENFs/EENFs as of June 24, 2021.
When is MEPA review required?
MEPA review is required if there is jurisdiction over the project AND the project meets or exceeds a MEPA review threshold (outlined at 301 CMR 11.03). New MEPA protocol regarding climate change adaptation and resiliency will be in effect for all ENFs/EENFs as of October 1, 2021.
What information should be included in the ENF submittal?
The ENF submittal should include a completed ENF which clearly identifies the MEPA review thresholds that the project meets or exceeds and any Agency Actions that it may require. All sections of the ENF form should be completed. Supplemental pages and/or footnotes to tables may be used to clarify aspects of the project.
What is MEPA section 1 1?
1. MEPA establishes jurisdiction over: a Project undertaken by an Agency; those aspects of a Project within the subject matter of any required Permit; a Project involving Financial Assistance; and those aspects of a Project within the area of any Land Transfer. MEPA jurisdiction determines the Scope, if an EIR is required.
