​​​Environmental Document Templates

• Administrative rules environmental document template ​1-19-2023
  
• ​Categorical Exclusion Checklist (CEC)
  
• Categorical Exclusion Checklist guidance
• Environmental document availability template guidance (formerly Addendum A)​​
• Environmental document quality control checklist (MS word document template)
• Environmental Report and Environmental Assessment Templateguidance  3-3-2023
  
• Environmental Report (ER) and Environmental Assessment (EA) Template Use Requirements

Guidance documents are available in alternative text color upon request.

DNR project Coordination Request Template

• ​​ DNR project coordination request template​ (MS Word document template, supersedes form DTNR0002)
  

​Delegated DNR Design Concurrence Template

• ​​​Delegated DNR Design Concurrence Template (MS Word document template) 
  

Risk Based Environmental Scoping Template (RBEST)

• Risk Based Environmental Scoping Template (MS Word document template)

Native American Lands of Interest Scoping Determination

• Native American Lands of Interest Scoping Determination​ (MS Word document template)

Factor sheets (Use as needed to supplement any of the document templates)

• AestheticsGuidance
• Air QualityGuidance
• AgricultureGuidance
• Business and Economics​Guidance
• CommunityGuidance
• Construction Sound QualityGuidance
• Environmental JusticeGuidance
• Erosion ControlGuidance
• FloodplainsGuidance
• Groundwater, Wells and SpringsGuidance
• Hazardous Substances, Contamination and AsbestosGuidance
• Historic PropertiesGuidance
• OtherGuidance
• RelocationsGuidance
• Section 4(f)Guidance
• Section 6(f) or Other Unique PropertiesGuidance
• StormwaterGuidance
• Surface WatersGuidance
• Threatened, Endangered and Protected ResourcesGuidance  
  
• Traffic NoiseGuidance
• WetlandsGuidance

Guidance documents are available in alternative text color upon request.

Emergency Projects

• Emergency Project Environmental Guidance​  2-7-2023
  

Environmental Document Re-Evaluations

• Re-Evaluation and Supplemental Analysis Template 
  

Environmental Document Attachments

• Appropriate Attachments and Appendices for Environmental Documents

Programmatic and Cooperative Agreements

• DOT-DNR interim approach to DNR field work during COVID-19 National Emergency
• 2019 DOT-DATCP Cooperative Agreement​​​​
• 2020 DOT-DNR Cooperative Agreement
• Attachment A1 - 1994 Memorandum of Understanding on Erosion Control and Stormwater
• Attachment A2 - 1994 Memorandum of Understanding on Erosion Control and Stormwater​ WPDES Agreement for DOT Construction Activities
  
• Attachment A3 - 1998 Memorandum of Understanding on Endangered and Threatened Species
• Attachment A4 - 1999 Memorandum of Understanding Relating to the Authorization of Stormwater Discharges to Waters of the State of Wisconsin
  
• 1​988 Memo - Implementation of DOT DNR Cooperative Agreement Section VII Waterway Crossing and other Floodplain Encroachments
• 2001 Memorandum of Understanding on Compensatory Mitigation for Unavoidable Wetland Losses Resulting from State Transportation Activities
• 2012 Memorandum of Understanding on Compensatory Mitigation for Unavoidable Wetland Losses Resulting from State Transportation Activities
• 2021 Aquatic Connectivity Attachment to the DOT-DNR Cooperative Agreement 
  
• 2022 Delegated DNR Design Concurrence Attachment to the DOT-DNR Cooperative Agreement 
  
• Programmatic Agreement (PA) for CEs (Categorical Exclusions)

Forms and other business tools used for the research, development and legal compliance of environmental documentation.

• Agricultural Impact Notice Form (link to DATCP site)
• Acronyms - basic example list for use in environmental documents
• ​Northern Long-Eared Bat no effects checklist
  
• Process Initiation Letter Template (on WisDOT letterhead)
• Typical A-Weighted Sound Levels
• Wetlands Impact Tracking Form​​​ 1-30-2023
  
  
• Tips for completing the Wetlands Impact Tracking Form
• WisDOT Facilities Development Manual
• WisDOT’s Pre-screening worksheet for determining the need to conduct a detailed indirect effects analysis

FHWA 4f findings

• Finding of de Minimis Impact on Historic Property
• Finding of de Minimis Impact on Parks, Recreation Areas, and Wildlife and Waterfowl Refuges​​

Public involvement forms and templates

• Public involvement meeting comment form
• Public involvement​ meeting handout template​
• Public involvement plan template
  
• Public involvement plan template (local roads only)
• Public involvement meeting sign-in sheet
  
• Notice of opportunity to request a public hearing template
  
• Notice of public hearing template
  
• Standard and special distribution lists for public hearing notices
• Public hearing press release template
• Public involvement meeting and public hearing display ad template
• Public hearing handout packet template
• Public hearing chairperson’s packet template
• Public hearing record certification letter
  
• Instruction sheet for court reporters
• Public hearing sign in sheet
  
• Public hearing record table of contents template
• Fact sheet – Ribbon cutting/groundbreaking ceremony