April Norton
Project Manager | NEPA
- Role
- Environmental Protection Specialist at Usda
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About April Norton
Results oriented Project Manager with proven experience overseeing environmental regulatory compliance. Consummate professional with strong analytical and problem resolution skills; adept at quickly presenting recommendations and solutions that effectively resolve problems. Dedicated, hands-on leader successfully prioritizes and manages multiple simultaneous tasks. Proactive and high-energy environmental professional; thrive in fast paced, fluid environments. Outstanding communicator with sophisticated interpersonal skills; easily interact with clients, vendors, staff, corporate executives, and senior military personnel. Additionally, proficient in: • NEPA • Historic Preservation • Endangered Species Act • SEPA • Stream Determinations • Training • 29 CFR/40 CFR/ 49 CFR • Personnel Management • Wetlands
Experience
Environmental Protection Specialist
Jan 2023 — Present · Raleigh, NC, US
Coordinates with Rural Development (RD) staff and applicants during early project planning and design activities to ensure the effective integration of environmental considerations in applicant proposals. Provides guidance and assists applicants in the proper analysis and documentation of the potential environmental impacts of applicant proposals and, based on applicant provided information makes determinations of the effect of actions on specific environmental resources and historical properties.Assists applicants and consultants in ensuring proper and effective coordination and consultation with federal, state, and local natural resource and environmental regulatory agencies, tribes and the public during project planning and decision-making.Assists staff and applicants in ensuring timely and proper public involvement and review processes where necessary. Responds effectively and efficiently to and resolves any comments received from federal, state, and local natural resource and environmental regulatory agencies, tribes, and the public on the environmental review documents.Based on review and coordination, recommends approval of environmental review documents or notes areas of concern and specific actions to address or correct deficiencies. Executes appropriate internal approval documentation and recommends further action to loan approval authorities.Recommends approval of environmental review documents or notes areas of concern and specific actions to address or correct deficiencies.Reviews and ensures environmental mitigation measures are integrated in RD loan or grant approval documents.Provides technical support and negotiates resolutions to any post-approval or on-going project construction discoveries of unidentified environmental resources or historical properties.Provides expert guidance and technical direction to staff and applicants by facilitating the resolution of complex environmental impact issues or conflicts.
Education
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biology
North Carolina State University
Master's degree, Natural Resources - Environmental Assessment
Skills
- Environmental Permitting
- Pollution Prevention
- Risk Assessment
- Environmental Compliance
- Military
- Microsoft Office
- Proposal Writing
- Soil
- Waste Management
- Remediation
- Rcra
- Environmental Management Systems
- Environmental Awareness
- Industrial Hygiene
- Environmental Auditing
- Environmental Consulting
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Hazardous Waste Management
- Environmental Remediation
- Hazwoper
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