Project: SIA Short Project
Your Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Answer the questions found below as a group
Hand in one answer with everyone's name
- 1st & last, in alphabetical order by last name
- Include only members who are present
Indicate the date:  ____________________ 		 Indicate the name of the class
Indicate the name of the Project
Be thorough; write good answers
Use your time wisely. 
Be finished by the end of the allotted time
Name of the Project:   SIA Short Project

1.  Pick a project that has an environmental impact & briefly describe it.  Examples could include anything from a new housing or mall development, logging, mining, a new major highway, rehabilitating an area to become a state park, reintroducing elk or some other new species, etc.

2.  Briefly describe how the SIA variables apply or do not apply to your proposed project.  What variables will be the most important? 

3.  Briefly describe the steps you would follow to conduct an SIA on your project.  What steps will be the most important? 
 

SIA Variables
1.  Population characteristics 
2.  Community & institutional structure 
3.  Political & social resources 
4.  Individual & family factors 
5.  Community resources 
6.  Knowledge, Beliefs, Vals, Norms, 
     Attitudes, Opinions, Interests, Ideologies 
7.  Lifestyles 
8.  Economics 		 Steps in the SIA Process
1.  Dev an effective pub involvement plan, 
     so that all affected interests will be involved 
2.  Conduct Scoping to identify the stakeholders & the  issues 
3.  Identify & characterize alternatives 
4.  Define baseline conditions 
5.  Describe & project probable social impacts 
6.  Predict responses to impacts 
7.  Consider direct & indirect impacts, & short term, 
     midterm, & long term impacts, & cumulative impacts 
8.  Recommend new alternatives if necessary 
9.  Develop a mitigation plan 
10.  Implement the project 
11.  Monitor the project 
12.   Evaluate the project 
13.  Modify the project as needed 

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