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Transportation Environmental Stewardship Excellence Award
The Environmental Stewardship Excellence Award is awarded every 3 years to Service employees or offices that use partnership-based approaches to promote ecosystem sustainability while meeting the increasing transportation needs of the Nation.
The Fish and Wildlife Service encourages nominations from any person, including any of our many partners within the transportation planning community, such as the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), a State Department of Transportation, or regional transportation organization, as well as non-governmental organizations, Federal and State resource agencies, and internally from other Fish and Wildlife Service peers.
Nominees are reviewed by a panel of judges who evaluate the nominations and make a recommendation to the Service. In recognizing the value of Federal, State, and local partners in guiding stewardship efforts, the judges are selected to represent the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), Federal resource agencies, and include a local government transportation planning representative. The Assistant Director - Ecological Services will make the final award decision. The award winner is notified and invited to an award ceremony to receive recognition.
2013 Award Winner Phillip DeGarmo of the Kentucky Field Office has been selected as the recipient of the Service’s 2013 Transportation Environmental Stewardship Excellence Award. Using a partnership-based approach, Phillip Degarmo and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Federal Highway Kentucky Division developed a programmatic approach to Endangered Species Act Section 7 compliance that integrates Indiana bat habitat conservation into the transportation planning and project development processes. With the development of a Programmatic Biological Opinion as well as a Programmatic Conservation Memorandum of Agreement among partners, Mr. Phillip DeGarmo established a consistant and efficient environental review process that minimizes adverse impacts to the Indiana bat and contributes to the Kentucky Field Office’s statewide conservation and recovery goals for the Indiana bat.
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Phillip DeGarmo
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Last updated:
May 20, 2013
