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Outline on SIA
Step 8: Develop New Alternatives as Necessary
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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 8 in the SIA process is to recommend new alternatives as needed
& feasible |
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As impacts are identified, the SIA analyst & other analysts or
decision makers must consider which alts might alleviate problems, &
wk w/ project mgrs & affected grps to see if these can be pursued |
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The SIA analyst must be sure to analyze soc & other envl impacts
of all the proposed alts |
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Where there is contention, mediation is recommended w/ the aim of developing
new, more alts that are more amenable to the greatest number |
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The development of new alts should only be done as a last resort &
w/ caution when it is determined that a superior alt was not developed
but does exist |
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The analysts & the decision makers must avoid "fishing" for a suitable
alt since such a process is likely to result in more of a political alt
than a scientifically suitable one |
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New alts must be able to be justified in light of the existing stakeholder
interests, issues, soc vars & other data |
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