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Step 7: Predict the Indirect & Cumulative Impacts
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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 7 in the SIA process is to consider indirect & cumulative
impacts of the proposed alts |
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To determine indirect & cumulative impacts of the proposed alts
encompasses several sub-steps |
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Many soc impacts are not direct |
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Indirect & cumulative impacts may occur well after action is taken,
& and possibly in areas distant from project |
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Cumulative effects can be of critical importance |
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Many pops, esp indigenous grps & indl grps, are at risk of cul
extinction due to a variety of pressures |
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A proj may be all it takes to push a grp "over the edge" |
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In many cases the indirect & cumulative effects are not significant,
while in other cases they may the the most significant effects |
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A common type of indirect effect is the multiplier effect |
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Effects of a proposed action may have cumulative effects w/ other projs
carried out by the particular agency or by an unrelated org |
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