Environmental Guidance: Florida

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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 - Florida
	Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (FXE) - Noise Map
	Tampa International Airport (TPA) - Noise

Environmental Program - Airports - Southern Region

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

AirData - USEPA / Nonattainment Map - Florida

Florida Air Pollution Control Regulations

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

	Florida Coastal Zone Management
	Ocean & Coastal Management in Florida

	Coastal America
	Coastal Zone Management Program
	Coastal Zones

Endangered Species Act: 50 CFR 402

	Endangered Species: Florida
	Endangered Species - Southeast Region
	USFWS North Florida Ecological Services Field Office
	USFWS Panama City Ecologicalservices Field Office
	USFWS South Florida Ecological Services Field Office

	Field Guide - Rare Plants / Animals of Florida
	Florida's Imperiled Species

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

	Farmland Protection
	Farmlands Protection
	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
	Northwest Florida Water Management District
	Saint Johns River Water Management District
	South Florida Water Management District
	Southwest Florida Water Management District
	Suwanee River Water Management District

	FEMA Flood Map-Online Tutorial
	Floodplain Management - Florida

Historic Preservation: 36 CFR Part 800

	Florida State Historic Preservation Office
	Florida Trust for Historic Preservation

	ACHP - Working with Section 106
	Advisory Council on Historic Preservation - ACHP
	Dade Heritage Trust
	Historic Florida Keys Foundation
	National Archeological Database-Maps
	National Park Service Archeology Program
	National Register of Historic Places
	National Register of Historic Places - Florida
	National Trust for Historic Preservation

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Noise Abatement and Control: 24 CFR 51b

	Florida Traffic Data
	Noise Guidebook HUD-953-CPD
	Noise Guidebook HUD-953-CPD: Chapter 4 Supplemental

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

Sole Source Aquifers: 40 CFR 149

	Biscayne Aquifer
	EPA Designated Sole Source Aquifers
	Volusia-Floridan Aquifer

	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

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

	Choosing an Environmentally Safe Site-Guidebook
	Envirofacts Warehouse - Toxic Releases
	Florida Department Of Environmental Protection

	Hazardous and Toxic Substances - OSHA
	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
	National Map Viewer
	National Water Summary On Wetland Resources
	National Wetlands Research Center - USGS
	Online County Soil Surveys
	Recognizing Wetlands - Usacoe
	Wetlands - EPA
	Wetlands Information - Mapping

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

	Florida - Loxahatchee River
	Florida - Wekiva River

	American Rivers - Wild Rivers Toolkit
	Florida Fish and Wildlife Regions
	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