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| - Project: SIA Step 9: Mitigate a Road or other Environmental Project |
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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 9 in the SIA process is to develop a mitigation plan |
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| Mitigation is the process of lessening the severity, force or intensity of some impact of an action | |||||
| The social analyst should work w/ proj mgrs & affected grps to estb the mitigation of soc effects |
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| The mitigation of physical effects can also have the effect of mitigating soc effects & the mitigation of social effect can also mitigate physical effects | |||||
| The SIA & the mitigation plan will be included in pertinent review documents like EAs & EISs |
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| The SIA & the mitigation plan are reflected in Findings Of No Significant Impact (FONSIs) & the Records of Decision (RODs) & in docs required under other authorities like Section 106 of NEPA |
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| The soc analyst should estb monitoring progs to ensure that mitigation occurs |
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Mitigation can take the forms of direct or indirect mitigation |
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Direct mitigation involve directly reducing the effects of an action |
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| An example of a direct mitigation plan is to reduce the amt of timber removed in an area in order to protect a wildlife species | |||||
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Indirect mitigation involves an action that reduces the effects of an action through a trade off or substitution |
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An example of an indirect mitigation plan is to expand the habitat for a wildlife species in another area than the proposed action |
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