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Outline on SIA
Step 1: Public Involvement Plan
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Steps in SIA
Although every project, and every SIA, is unique, in most cases there
is a series of more or less standard steps through which the analysis must
proceed in order to achieve good results, including:
1. Dev an effective public involvement plan,
so that all affected interests will be involved
2. Conduct scoping to identify the stakeholders & the issues
3. Identify and characterize alternatives
4. Define baseline conditions
5. Project probable impacts
6. Predict responses to impacts
7. Consider indirect & cumulative impacts
8. Recommend new alternatives
9. Develop a mitigation plan
10. Implement the project
11. Evaluate the project
12. Monitor the project
13. Modify the project, as needed
And some SIA projects may have steps that are unique to it |
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SIA Step 1 is the development of an effective public involvement
plan |
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The level of public participation needed varies w/ the nature of the
action under review |
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Complex projects require an SIA to estb the gen character of the community,
define potentially affected groups, & determine enough about them to
know how to involve them |
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Simple projects require no SIA, but yet a social analysis can be conducted
by consulting w/ local leaders & experts to obtain critical data
on which to build a public involvement program (for guidelines see NEPA
Call-In Fact Sheet "Public Participation in NEPA Review," February 1998)." |
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The development of the public involvement plan should be done in conjunction
w/ the major decision makers of the project |
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A small project may be publically complex if it is controversial |
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Because the level of controversy of the project may not be determined
until SIA Step 2: Scoping to identify the stakeholders & the
issues is completed, the public involvement plan should be reviewed throughout
the SIA process & revised as necessary |
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