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Step 4: Define Baseline Conditions
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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 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 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 4 in the SIA process is to define the baseline conditions |
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To define the baseline conditions, the analyst defines pertinent existing
conditions in each potentially affected area, called the Affected Social
Environment (ASE) |
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To define the baseline conditions, the analyst seeks to determine |
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- the affected populations |
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- the concentration or dispersal of the populations |
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- how each pop relates to the natural & built envs |
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- the histl background of each pop |
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- the pol & soc resources, pwr structures, & networks of relationship
in each grp |
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- whether low-income or minority populations are involved |
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- the special needs of grps |
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- the kinds of cultural & attitudinal attributes that characterize
each grp |
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- how grps about the pol & soc instits |
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- how the grps relate to the natural & human made envs & to
change |
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- the relevant demographic & econ characteristics |
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- the levels of unemployment or underemployment |
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- housing availability |
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- access to utilities |
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- the state of the ed system |
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- the state of the trans system |
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- seasonal or other patterns of in-migration and out-migration |
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At a minimum, baseline info should be developed based on existing lit,
govt docs, & consultation w/ experts & community |
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For a more complicated project, formal studies may be needed to define
the baseline info |
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