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Enhancing EIR Processes for Project Success

Learn how to tailor Environmental Impact Review (EIR) processes for improved project outcomes. Recommendations include developing risk-based plans, matching team expertise to requirements, and enhancing review team resources. Find out how to increase credibility, reduce costs, and collaborate effectively while remaining independent.

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Enhancing EIR Processes for Project Success

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  1. External Independent Reviews Catherine Santana November 14, 2006

  2. Improving the EIR Process • EIRs Should Not be “One Size Fits All” • Develop Risk Based EIR Plans • Match Team Expertise to Review Requirements • Increase Review Team Resources • Strive to Shorten Review Period • Develop Consistent Processes and Criteria

  3. Goals • Add Value to the Department, Programs and Projects • Help to Improve Projects’ Success in Executing to the Established Baseline • Increase EIR and Project Credibility • Reduce EIR Costs • Work Collaboratively While Remaining Objective and Independent

  4. “One Size Fits All” • Same Level of Effort and Same Costs, Regardless of Complexity and Scope of Project • Tailoring Considerations • Project Risk and Complexity • Project Tailoring Strategy • Breadth and Depth of the Review • Lines of Inquiry • Paper Review/Site Review Just as you Tailor the Project so Shall we Tailor the Review

  5. Consistent Results • Quality • Report • Findings and Recommendations • Interpretation of DOE O 413.3A and DOE M 413.3-1 • Level of Program/Project Knowledge • Collaborative Approach

  6. Next Steps • Revamp the EIR Process • Conduct Facilitated Process Reviews • Capture Lessons Learned • Evaluate Existing Contract • Develop Contractor Performance Measures • Develop EIR Statistics • Costs • Time to Validate • Baseline Cost and Schedule Impacts • Common Findings/Recommendations

  7. What Have We Learned? • Major Findings and Other Findings are Often Significant • Baselines Cannot be Validated with the Initial Review • Corrective Action Plans are “Often” Almost “Always” Required • Satisfactorily Resolving Findings Extends the EIR Timeline

  8. Common Findings • Funding Profiles do not Support the Project Baselines • Cost and Schedule Contingencies are Under Estimated • Critical Paths are Often Obscured by Level of Effort Activities • Risk Management Plans are Deficient • Assumptions are Invalid or Too Optimistic • Management Reserve is not Defined or Included …Often Identify Inadequate Project Management Infrastructures Necessary to Execute the Baseline

  9. Risk Management Plans • Many common risk events that are normally associated with … projects are not included in the risk management plan • The risk register does not indicate the probability and consequence rankings for each risk… • Mitigation strategies are not specifically shown as discrete activities in the project schedule… • The risk/contingency analysis is not risk based… • Lack of quantitative contingency analysis…to address the occurrence of risk events.

  10. Impact Can Be Significant Incomplete Risk Management Plans Faulty Assumptions Inadequate Management Reserve and Contingency Under Estimated Baselines

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