Develop environmental management or restoration plans for sites with power transmission lines, natural gas pipelines, fuel refineries, geothermal plants, wind farms, or solar farms.

“Develop environmental management or restoration plans for sites with power transmission lines, natural gas pipelines, fuel refineries, geothermal plants, wind farms, or solar farms.” is a core task performed by Environmental Restoration Planners. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 1st by importance (#23 most important). About 91% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Develop plans for managing or preserving natural resources. in Thinking Creatively

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T1.

How AI is actually used on this kind of task

The Anthropic Economic Index observes how people actually use AI on tasks like this one across millions of real conversations.

• 0.006% share of AI-use records mapped to this task
• 94% of interactions still needed a human in the loop

Observed AI use describes people choosing to use AI as a tool on this kind of task today. It is augmentation and assistance, not a measure of jobs replaced.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Develop environmental restoration project schedules and budgets. · importance 4.5
• Provide technical direction on environmental planning to energy engineers, biologists, geologists, or other professionals working to develop restoration plans or strategies. · importance 4.4
• Create habitat management or restoration plans, such as native tree restoration and weed control. · importance 4.4
• Conduct site assessments to certify a habitat or to ascertain environmental damage or restoration needs. · importance 4.4
• Collect and analyze data to determine environmental conditions and restoration needs. · importance 4.3
• Supervise and provide technical guidance, training, or assistance to employees working in the field to restore habitats. · importance 4.2
• Plan environmental restoration projects, using biological databases, environmental strategies, and planning software. · importance 4.2
• Communicate findings of environmental studies or proposals for environmental remediation to other restoration professionals. · importance 4.1
• Apply for permits required for the implementation of environmental remediation projects. · importance 4.0
• Inspect active remediation sites to ensure compliance with environmental or safety policies, standards, or regulations. · importance 4.0
• Develop natural resource management plans, using knowledge of environmental planning or state and federal environmental regulatory requirements. · importance 4.0
• Identify environmental mitigation alternatives, ensuring compliance with applicable standards, laws, or regulations. · importance 3.9
• Identify short- and long-term impacts of environmental remediation activities. · importance 3.8
• Notify regulatory or permitting agencies of deviations from implemented remediation plans. · importance 3.7

See all tasks on the Environmental Restoration Planners page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Develop environmental management or restoration plans for sites with power transmission lines, natural gas pipelines, fuel refineries, geothermal plants, wind farms, or solar farms.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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