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Step 11: Develop Monitoring Plan
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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 11 in the SIA process is to develop a monitoring plan |
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The monitoring plan has two roles, to ensure that the plans are implemented
as planned, & to determine that the effects of the actions are as predicted |
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Monitoring follows & measures the actions of the implementation
& the effects of the actions |
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The main purpose of soc impact monitoring is to identify the important
discrepancies btwn the expected & actual effects of an action or proj |
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Monitoring is on-going for the life of the proj or the plan |
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Monitoring is used to determine whether any adjustments are needed
to reduce unanticipated & undesirable effects or to enhance benefits,
& to provide info on trends in effects & emerging issues |
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The evaluation of the monitoring results may lead to: |
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- modifying the proj w/ appropriate NEPA documentation or discontinuing
the proj |
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- amending strategic plans |
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- supplementing the NEPA docs as needed |
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- conducting additional monitoring |
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- continuing the current course of action |
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Monitoring is done to |
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- validate & improve decision making for future plans & projs
& to keep plans viable |
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- improve credibility w/ the public, stakeholders, & impacted grps |
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- be sure that max benefits continue to result from actions, that the
"greatest good for the greatest number" is accomplished w/ any severe negative
consequences |
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One aspect of monitoring is to monitor the responses of the soc env
to a proj proposal; i.e. the pop, specific stakeholders, etc. |
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Another aspect of monitoring is to determine changes or trends in key
soc vars, & to determine the effects of the actions on these vars |
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Because not all soc vars need to be monitored, the soc analyst must
decide which soc vars should be monitored |
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To determine which soc vars should be monitored, use the Stakeholder
Alts Matrix as a guide to possible measures |
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Monitoring should be closely tied to those issues identified as important
during scoping |
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The process of monitoring involves measuring soc vars that encompass
the issue & doing it at regular intervals in a systematic & consistent
way |
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The criteria for selecting vars to be monitored include: |
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- that the vars reflect major issue(s) or area(s) of soc life to be
affected by the proposal |
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- reliability & validity |
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- sensitivity to changes in the soc vars |
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- ease of measurement w/ available data, if possible |
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The last phase of monitoring is to compare the monitoring results to
the baseline conditions & determine if impacts are developing as planned
or not |
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