1. SAY IT TO MY FACEBOOK:
NEPA PROJECTS USING SOCIAL MEDIA SITES
Popular Social Media Sites
User profiles + photos + Photo sharing + Mini-blogging Video sharing +
comments comments comments
Example Projects
Loop 1604
FHWA, TxDOT, Alamo RMA
improvements to Loop 1604 (37 miles) in Bexar County, Texas
Participation
Facebook 360 people “liked” it
Flickr 125 photos uploaded
Twitter 69 followers
YouTube 418 videos watched
Policy “Comments made on these sites (Twitter, Facebook,
Socializer, blogs), herein called ‘social media sites" will
be not be included or evaluated as part of the ongoing
Environmental Impact Statement decision-making
process… These social media sites are available for
and intended to encourage public dialogue about the
project and are, as such, provided for outreach and
informational purposes only.’
Metro’s Westside Subway Extension
Los Angeles Metro
alternative analysis for subway extension
Participation
Facebook 2,361 members
Policy “Comments, questions and posts on our wall will
become part of the official public comment record for
the Draft Environmental Impact Statement/
Environmental Impact Report (Draft EIS/EIR) currently
in progress.”
Participation Counts as of April 21, 2010
Source: http://www.cubitplanning.com/blog/2010/04/nepa-projects-using-
social-media-sites

2. SAY IT TO MY FACEBOOK:
NEPA PROJECTS USING SOCIAL MEDIA SITES
Driving I-95
FHWA, NCDOT
Improve I-95 in North Carolina
Participation
Facebook 32 people liked it
Twitter 26 followers
YouTube 60 channels views (no project videos uploaded yet)
Policy “All comments or posts made to Driving 95 accounts,
walls, forums or pages are public, not private. This
means that both the posts of the employee
administrator and any feedback by other employees or
non-employees, including citizens, will become part of
the public record.”
Rosemont Copper EIS
US Forest Service
mining and processing of copper, molybdenum, and silver ore in the Nogales Ranger District in
Arizona
Participation
Twitter 14 followers
Policy “Forest Service would use Twitter™ for notification
only – one-way communication, not dialogue”
Participation Counts as of April 21, 2010
Source: http://www.cubitplanning.com/blog/2010/04/nepa-projects-using-
social-media-sites