Effective environmental assessments : how to manage and prepare NEPA EAs
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Charles H Eccleston
- ناشر : Boca Raton : Lewis Publishers,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2001
- شابک / ISBN : 9781566705592
Description
An Overview of NEPA -- NEPA's Purpose -- Title I-Declaration of a National Environmental Policy Act -- Complying to the Fullest Extent Possible -- Overview of the NEPA Compliance Process -- When Must NEPA Begin? -- When Must NEPA Be Completed? -- Three Levels of NEPA Compliance -- Initiating the NEPA Process -- The Environmental Assessment -- The Environmental Impact Statement -- General Concepts and Requirements -- NEPA is a Planning and Decisionmaking Process -- Reasonable Alternatives -- Interim Actions -- Eligibility for Interim Action Status -- Integrating NEPA with Other Requirements -- Integrating Environmental Design Arts -- Conducting an Early and Open Process -- Public Involvement -- Public Notice -- Scoping -- Systematic and Interdisciplinary Planning -- Systematic -- Interdisciplinary -- Writing Documents in Plain English -- Incorporation by Reference -- Adopting Another Agency's EA -- Department of Energy's Adoption Process -- Methodology -- A Rigorous, Accurate, and Scientific Analysis -- A Fair and Objective Analysis -- Disclosing Opposing Points of View -- Dealing with Incomplete and Unavailable Information -- Incomplete Information -- Unavailable Information -- NEPA's Concept of Environmental Impact Analysis -- Actions -- Environmental Disturbances -- Receptors and Resources -- Impact Analysis -- Significance -- Mitigation and Monitoring -- Mitigation -- Monitoring -- Determining Whether an EA or EIS is Required -- Proposals -- Legislation -- Major -- Federal -- Action -- Significantly -- Context.
