Environmental Guidance: Alabama

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This Environmental Guidance page is designed to provide relevant State resources and tools to assist in completing environmental reviews in Region IV. (PDF)

Airport Clear Zones & Accident Potential Zones: 24 CFR 51d

FAA - Airport Diagrams - Alabama

Environmental Program - Airports - Southern Region

Clean Air Act: Sections 176(c), (d), and 40 CFR 6, 51, 93

Airdata - USEPA / Nonattainment Map - Alabama

Alabama Air Pollution Control Regulations

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Coastal Zone Management Act: Sections 307 (c), (d)

	Alabama Coastal Zone Management
	Ocean & Coastal Management in Alabama

	Coastal America
	Coastal Zone Management Program
	Coastal Zones

Endangered Species Act: 50 CFR 402

	Alabama's Threatened and Endangered Species List
	Endangered Species: Alabama
	USFWS Daphne Ecological Services Field Office

	Endangered Species: Alabama
	Endangered Species - Southeast Region
	Endangered Species - Southeast Region

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Environmental Justice: Executive Order 12898

	Environmental Justice Database
	Environmental Justice - USHUD

	Environmental Justice Geographic Assessment Tool
	Environmental Justice - USDOT / FHWA
	Environmental Justice and the NIMBY Principle

Explosive and Flammable Operations: 24 CFR 51c

	Explosive and Flammable Operations
	Guidebook HUD-1060-CPD: Siting of HUD-Assisted Projects near Hazardous Facilities

Farmland Protection Policy Act: 7 CFR 658

	NRCS - Alabama
	NRCS County Offices - Alabama
	US Census Bureau Reference Maps

	Farmland Protection
	Farmlands Protection
	Important Farmlands
	NRCS - Farmland Protection
	Online County Soil Surveys
	Prime and Unique Farmlands

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Floodplain Management: 24 CFR Part 55 / Executive Order 11988

FEMA Flood Map

	FEMA Flood Map - Online Tutorial
	FEMA Flood Map
	Floodplain Management - Alabama

Historic Preservation: 36 CFR Part 800

Alabama Historic Commission

	ACHP - Working with Section 106
	Advisory Council on Historic Preservation - ACHP
	National Archeological Database-Maps
	National Park Service Archeology Program
	National Register of Historic Places
	National Register of Historic Places - Alabama
	National Trust for Historic Preservation
	Native American Consultation Database

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Noise Abatement and Control: 24 CFR 51b

	Noise Guidebook HUD-953-CPD
	Noise Guidebook HUD-953-CPD: Chapter 4 Supplemental
	State of Alabama - Live Traffic Counts

	Alabama Data Portal - GIS Data
	Alabama Road Maps & Atlas
	Audible Landscape Manual - Highway Noise
	FAA - Aircraft Noise Levels
	Noise Pollution Clearinghouse
	Noise Quantification and Monitoring: An Overview

Sole Source Aquifers: 40 CFR 149

EPA Designated Sole Source Aquifers

	Alabama Office of Water Resources
	Alabama Water Quality Information
	Alabama Water Science Center - USGS
	EPA Ground Water and Drinking Water
	Ground Water & Drinking Water
	Ground Water Data
	Sole Source Aquifer Program
	Sole Source Aquifer Q's and A's
	Sole Source Aquifers

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Toxic Chemicals & Radioactive Materials: 24 CFR 58.5(i) (2)

	Alabama Department of Environmental Management
	Alabama Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources
	Choosing an Environmentally Safe Site - Guidebook
	Envirofacts Warehouse - Toxic Releases

	Hazardous and Toxic Substances - OSHA
	Hazardous Waste Site Maps
	Internet Hazdat - Site Activity Query Map
	Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics
	Planthazard - Polluter/Pollutants Mapping
	Superfund Hazardous Waste Sites - Region IV
	Superfund - Locator
	Toxic Chemical Releases - Locator
	Toxic Pollution Environmental Maps
	Toxin - Wikipedia

Wetland Protection: Executive Order 11990

National Wetlands Inventory

	ACOE - Wetlands Research Program
	Managing a Watershed
	National Map Viewer
	National Water Summary on Wetland Resources
	National Wetlands Research Center - USGS
	National Wildlife Federation - Water and Wildlife
	Recognizing Wetlands - USACOE
	Wetlands - EPA
	Wetlands Information - Mapping
	Wetlands Reserve Program - NRCS

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Wild & Scenic Rivers Act: Sections 7(b), (c)

Alabama - Sipsey Fork River

	American Heritage Rivers
	American Rivers - Wild Rivers Toolkit
	GORP - U.S. Wild and Scenic Rivers
	List of National Wild & Scenic Rivers
	National Landscape Conservation System - WSR
	U.S. Code - Wild and Scenic Rivers
	Wild and Scenic Rivers
	Wild and Scenic Rivers Act