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Step 13: Modify the Project, as Needed
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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 13 in the SIA process is to modify the project as needed |
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The ultimate goal of any project is to plan, implement & evaluate
it, & to not need modification; however, it is the mark of an effective
analyst, decision maker, & program if it can review itself & make
changes as needed |
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Just as the analyst should not add alts for political reasons, they
should add alts only as dictated by the scientific review of the issues
of the stakeholders, the soc vars, etc., so the analysts & decision
makers should not modify the proj except when eval determines that outcomes
as measured by monitoring are far outside of the expected or acceptable
range |
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Modification of the project can occur at almost any level including
modification of
- goals
- stakeholders
- alts
- implementation
- mitigation
- eval
and more |
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The ultimate modification must always include the possibility of ceasing
the action |
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Often modifications involve minor changes in the implementation or
mitigation |
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Modifications should be undertaken carefully only after consultation
w/ the decision makers, other analysts, the stakeholders, etc. |
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Modification must be undertaken carefully because the original plan
& Record of Decision (ROD) are legal docs that are in essence, contracts
that can only be changed under particular circumstances w/ consent of the
participating parties |
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