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Step 3: Identify & Characterizes Alternatives
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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. Scoping to Identify the Stakeholders & the Issues
3. Identify & 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 to project
11. Monitor the project
12. Evaluate the project
13. Modify the project as needed
And some SIA projects may have steps that are unique to it |
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Step 3 in the SIA process is to identify & characterize alternatives |
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Alts are developed based on purpose & need for the action as delineated
by the decision maker |
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The SIA analyst must consider all purposes & needs are & obtain
sufficient data on each to frame analysis to dev the alts |
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The Guidelines & Principles identify basic info about each alternative
needed for SIA include |
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- Locations |
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- Land requirements |
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- Needs for ancillary facilities (roads, transmission lines, utilities,
etc.) |
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- Construction or implementation schedule |
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- Size of the work force (construction and operation, by year or month) |
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- Facility size and shape (if a facility is involved) |
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- Need for a local work force |
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- Institutional resources |
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An alt should be designed to |
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- respond to the issues as well as the purpose & need of the project |
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- provide options allowing for informed decisions |
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- provide options that represent the complex of various stakeholders
interests in such a manner that each alt will provide "the greatest good
for the greatest number" |
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The greatest good for the greatest number principle denotes that several
mixes of options in each alt may be equally valid |
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The ultimate goal of the NEPA process is to display the effects of
different alts so that they can be compared as to their merits |
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In scoping, the SIA analyst uses the Stakeholder Issues Matrix to determine
the social issues, which are then used to formulate soc vars associated
w/ the proposed action |
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In forming the alts, the soc issues & vars are grouped together
for resolution by alts |
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The alts will offer various actions which will address & mitigate
anticipated positive & negative effects generated by a particular alt |
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Besides the alts, specific mitigations may be developed that address
all or several of the alts |
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Alts should be designed so that the decision maker & the stakeholders
can clearly understand the cause & effect relationships of the issues
to various stakeholders in light of a proposed alt |
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