Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution

Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution (ECCR) is a process whereby neutral, third-party facilitators work with agencies and stakeholders using collaboration, negotiation, structured dialogue, mediation, and other approaches to prevent, manage, and resolve environmental conflicts. In 2005, the Office of Management and Budget and the Council on Environmental Quality jointly issued a Memorandum on Environmental Conflict Resolution directing Federal agencies to increase the effective use of environmental conflict resolution and build institutional capacity for collaborative problem solving.

In May 2018, the Federal Forum on Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution issued a report that identifies quantifiable benefits of government use of ECCR - including cost reduction, improved relationships, and better outcomes that avoided litigation - and makes recommendations on improving the effective use of ECCR, including within the context of federal infrastructure permitting.

• Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution (ECCR): Enhancing Agency Efficiency and Making Government Accountable to the People, 2 May 2018
• CEQ & OMB Memorandum on Environmental Collaboration and Conflict Resolution, 7 September 2012
• CEQ & OMB Memorandum on Environmental Conflict Resolution, 28 November 2005 - This memorandum has been replaced by the CEQ & OMB memorandum of 7 September 2012.