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Roster Entry Criteria

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Have you served as the principal professional on 2 - 10 environmental cases, totaling at least 200 case hours? (Each case must involve at least 20 direct case hours.) # Cases _____ Total Hrs_____

Score your cumulative process experience, training, and substantive education and experience. Sixty points will be required for entry onto the Institute's roster in addition to the 200 environmental case hours.

SCORING CATEGORIES	Range of Points	Maximum Points	Your Score
1. Complex Case and Additional Case Experience		65
a. Credit for additional experience as a principal professional on environmental or public policy cases during the past 10 years. (Do not count here cases used to meet the 200 case hour criterion.) ~ 5 additional points per case up to 5 cases	0 - 25
b. Credit for experience as a principal professional on any complex environmental or public policy cases during the past 10 years. ~ 5 points per case up to 5 cases	0 - 25
c. Credit for experience on environmental or public policy cases in the last 10 years as apprentice or junior professional. ~ 3 points per case up to 5 cases	0 - 15
2. Interactive Process Training (You may accumulate more than 25 points in this category although 25 points are the maximum that will be considered.)		25
a. Training experience Taken 24 hours of basic training and an additional 16 hours of advanced training in dispute resolution and consensus building.	0 or 10
b. Trainer experience Provided at least 40 hours of interactive training in dispute resolution and consensus building.	0 or 10
c. Senior trainer/teacher experience Provided at least 150 contact hours of interactive training in dispute resolution and consensus building.	0 or 25
3. Substantive Education and Experience		25
a. Graduate degrees or graduate program certificates in substantively relevant fields, such as law, environmental sciences or policy, engineering, public administration or management, communication theory, planning, conflict resolution. ~ 10 points for up to one degree/certificate	0 or 10
b. Years of employment or volunteer experience in fields related to Alternative Dispute Resolution/Environmental Dispute Resolution, such as law, engineering, public administration, planning, etc. ~ 1 point for every year up to 15 years	0 - 15

Definitions

1. case - involves an actual or potential dispute or lack of agreement on one or more issues in controversy. A case may also be described as a process of building agreement, recommendations or advice on actual or potential issues in controversy as well as facilitating collaborative processes among multiple parties on actual or potential issues in controversy. Systems design and evaluation work relating to environmental or public policy disputes would also be included. For purposes of entry, a case must have engaged the environmental dispute resolution and consensus building professional for more than 20 case hours and have occurred within the last 10 years.
   1. environmental case - cases involving pollution (prevention, cleanup, or consequences), land use, natural resource use or distribution, environmental permitting, facility or infrastructure siting disputes, environmental justice, and negotiated rulemaking, enforcement, or compliance relating to environmental cases.
   2. public policy case - cases involving the setting of governmental policy at the national, regional, state or local level, such as environmental or natural resource policy, health or safety policy, or education policy.
   3. complex environmental or public policy case - an environmental or public policy case involving at least three of the following characteristics: at least 100 case hours; multiple issues at stake; at least four parties representing distinct interests at the table; at least one party is a government entity.
2. case hours - actual contact time with the parties as individuals or a group, plus time spent in dispute or conflict assessment, dispute resolution process design, conduct of all phases of the process, or evaluating or reporting on the process. This does not include hours spent prior to professional engagement in the project.
3. environmental dispute resolution and consensus building professional - any third party neutral engaged to assist all parties in the prevention, management or resolution of disputes or controversy. In order to gain entry to this roster, the environmental dispute resolution and consensus building professional shall have expertise in one or more of the following processes: facilitation, mediation, consensus building, neutral evaluation/fact finding, settlement judge, conflict assessment, process design, or dispute systems design.
4. principal professional - an environmental dispute resolution and consensus building professional (see above) who has been engaged to serve as the lead in a case. A principal professional includes serving as a co-mediator or other such circumstance where duties and responsibilities are shared equally as peers.
5. apprentice or junior professional - an assistant to the principal professional in a case.
6. interactive process training - training in alternative dispute resolution processes and techniques, such as mediation, facilitation, and conflict management, which is interactive in nature, incorporating a substantial number of role plays, simulations, and group demonstrations.

For further information, contact:

Joan Calcagno - Roster Manager
U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution
130 S. Scott Ave.
Tucson, AZ 85701
tel: 520-901-8501
fax: 520-670-5530
roster@ecr.gov