Environmental Guidance: North Carolina

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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 - North Carolina

Environmental Program - Airports - Southern Region

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

AirData - USEPA / Nonattainment Map - North Carolina

	Forsyth County - Environmental Affairs
	Mecklenburg County Air Quality
	North Carolina Air Pollution Control Regulations

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

	NC Coastal Counties
	NC Division of Coastal Management
	Ocean & Coastal Management in North Carolina

	Coastal America
	Coastal Zone Management Program
	Coastal Zones

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Endangered Species Act: 50 CFR 402

	Endangered Species - Southeast Region
	NC Threatened and Endangered Species List
	USFWS NC Ecological Services Offices

	Endangered Species: North Carolina
	Endangered Species - Southeast Region

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

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Farmland Protection Policy Act: 7 CFR 658

	NRCS County Offices - North Carolina
	NRCS - North Carolina
	US Census Bureau Refrence Maps

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

Floodplain Management: 24 CFR Part 55 / Executive Order 11988

FEMA Flood Map

	FEMA Flood Map-Online Tutorial
	Floodplain Management - North Carolina
	North Carolina Floodplain Mapping

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Historic Preservation: 36 CFR Part 800

North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office

	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 - North Carolina
	National Trust for Historic Preservation

Noise Abatement and Control: 24 CFR 51b

	Noise Guidebook HUD-953-CPD
	Noise Guidebook HUD-953-CPD: Chapter 4 Supplemental
	North Carolina - Traffic Counts

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

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Sole Source Aquifers: 40 CFR 149

EPA Designated Sole Source Aquifers

	EPA Ground Water and Drinking Water
	Ground Water & Drinking Water
	Ground Water Data
	North Carolina Division of Water Quality
	Sole Source Aquifer Program
	Sole Source Aquifer Q's and A's
	Sole Source Aquifers

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

	Choosing an Environmentally Safe Site - Guidebook
	Envirofacts Warehouse - Toxic Releases
	NC Dept. of Environmental & Natural Resoources
	NC Division of Pollution Prevention & Environmental
	North Carolina GIS Database

	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

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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
	Online County Soil Surveys
	Recognizing Wetlands - USACOE
	Wetlands - EPA
	Wetlands Information - Mapping
	Wetlands Reserve Program - NRCS

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

	North Carolina - Chattooga River
	North Carolina - Horsepasture River
	North Carolina - Lumber River
	North Carolina - New River
	North Carolina - Wilson Creek

	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