| schema:description 2 | "内容記述: Introduction: Frogs and Federal Planning; Commonly Encountered Planning Problems: Traditional NEPA Problems, Technical & Cultural Problems, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Applying Management Principles and Tools: Value Engineering and Value Planning Tools, Systems Engineering Principles in Structured Planning , Total Quality Management Provides Principles for Optimizing Planning; International Principles Governing Impact Assessment; Assessment Principles: Sliding Scale, Rule of Reason, & Nomenclature: The Sliding Scale Approach, Rule of Reason, Nomenclature; Overview of the NEPA Compliance Process: The Three Levels of NEPA Compliance, Initiating the NEPA Process, Reviewing Existing NEPA Documents, Categorically Excluding Actions, Is the Action Considered Significant? The Environmental Assessment, The Environmental Impact Statement; Closing Thoughts; Disclaimer; Notes. Chapter 1. Initiating the EIS Process: An Integrated & Systematic Approach: 1.1 Initiating the EIS: Integrating NEPA Early, Requirement for Preparing an EIS, NEPA as an Early-Warning Siren, The Interdisciplinary Team, Kickoff Meeting, Coordination Between the EIS and Project Staffs, Standardizing Procedures; 1.2 Pre-scoping Effort: Purpose and Need Drive the Scope, Identifying Potential Decisions, Integrating the EIS with Other Requirements, Identifying Interim Actions, Identifying Nonfederal Actions, Preparing the NOI. 1.3 Tools for Managing the EIS Process: Preparing a Management Action Plan, Managing Schedule and Budget, Developing a Public Involvement Strategy, Scoping Plan, The Administrative Record, Selecting an EIS Contractor; 1.4 Compiling Data: Data Accuracy, Gap Analysis, Data Collection, Common Types of Data, Monitoring, Summary, Notes. Chapter 2 Preparing the EIS: An Integrated and Systematic Approach: 2.1 Public Scoping Process: Purpose of Public Scoping, Issuing the Notice of Intent, Involving the Public and Dealing with Hostility, Public Scoping Meetings, Finalizing the Scope, Preparing an EIS Implementation Plan.; 2.2 Integrated Interdisciplinary Planning Effort: Integrated Planning, Interdisciplinary Versus Multidisciplinary, Identifying Laws, Permits, and Licenses.; 2.3 Alternatives Synthesis and Assessment Phase: Applying a Modified Systems Engineering Approach, Input and Functional Requirements Assessment Step, Alternatives Identification Step, Screening and Evaluation Step, Alternatives Synthesis Step, Action Identification and Planning Integration Step, Optimization Step, Alternatives Description Step; 2.4 The Interdisciplinary Analysis Phase: Preparing an Analysis Plan, Documenting Assumptions, Performing the Environmental Analysis: A Systematic Approach, Step 1: Characterize Potentially Affected Environment, Step 2: Identify Potential Environmental Disturbances, Step 3: Perform Preliminary Investigation and Screening of All Potentially Significant Impacts, Step 4: Prepare Detailed Assessment of Potentially Significant Impacts, Step 5: Interpret Significance, Step 6: Assess Potential Monitoring and Mitigation Measures, Bounding Analyses, Programmatic EISs; 2.5 Preparing the Draft EIS: Limiting the Agency's Litigation Risk, Incorporation by Reference, Finalizing the Draft EIS, Circulating the Draft for Public Review, Filing the Draft EIS; 2.6 Preparing and Issuing the Final EIS: Managing Comments Resolution, Responding to Comments, Issuing the Final EIS; 2.7 The Final Decision and Implementation of the Action: Reviewing the Final EIS, Reaching a Final Decision, Bounded Alternative, toring & Mitigation, Summary, Notes. Chapter 3 The Environmental Impact Statement: Documentation Requirements: 3.1 The Notice of Intent.; 3.2 General Direction for Preparing the EIS: Differences Between the Draft and Final, Understandable Yet Rigorous, A Full and Fair Discussion, Dealing with Incomplete and Unavailable information, Reducing Document Size, Documenting Assumptions, Direction on Documenting the Analysis, How Much Is Enough? The Sufficiency Question, CEQ's Recommended EIS Format.; 3.3 The Cover Sheet; 3.4 Summary and Table of Contents: Summary, Table of Contents; 3.5 Purpose and Need Section; 3.6 Proposed Action and Alternatives System: Alternatives Versus Environmental Consequences, Range of Alternatives, Requirements for Describing Alternatives, Agency's Preferred Alternative, Mitigation Measures, Checklist for the Alternatives Section; 3.7 Affected Environment Section: Limiting Range of Resources and Level of Detail, Describing the Affected Environment; 3.8 The Environmental Consequences Section: General-Purpose Outline, Tools & Methodologies, General Direction for Describing Impacts, Specific Impact Requirements, Special Analytical Considerations.; 3.9 List of Preparers & Entities to Whom the EIS is Sent: List of Entities to Whom the EIS Is Sent.; 3.10 Index, Glossary, and Bibliography: Index, Glossary and List of References.; 3.11 Appendixes: Appendixes Versus Incorporation by Reference; 3. 12 The Record of Decision: Preparing the ROD, Environmentally Preferable Alternative, Mitigation &Monitoring Plans, References. Chapter 4 Implementing the Agency's Decision: 4.1 Challenging the Agency's Decision: Initiating Legal Action, The Court's Role, Remedy.; 4.2 Mitigation and Postmonitoring: Mitigation, Monitoring; 4.3 The Smithsonian Solution: Determining When a Proposed Change Requires Additional NEPA Analysis, Basis for the Tool, Evaluation Criteria for Assessing Changes, The Smithsonian Solution Tool; 4.4 Integrating NEPA with an ISO 14000 Environmental Management System: A New Paradigm, Why NEPA and EMS Complement One Another, Strategy for Integrating an EMS with NEPA, Integrating Life-Cycle Assessment with a NEPA Analysis, References. Chapter 5 Total Federal Planning: A Unifying Strategy for Integrating Federal Planning.: 5.1 NEPA Provides a Framework for Integrating All Federal Planning: NEPA Is Unique.; 5.2 A New Approach to Federal Planning: Overview of the Total Federal Planning Process, Capitalizing the Planning Function, An Interdisciplinary Steering Team, Holistic Planning, Advantages of TFP; 5.3 Total Federal Planning: A Detailed General-Purpose Strategy: Phase 1: Pre-scoping; Phase 2 : Formal Scoping; Phase 3: Data Development and Alternatives Design; Phase 4: Optimization and Data Validation; Phase 5: Analysis; Phase 6: Quality control; Phase 7: Review & Decisionmaking; Phase 8: Auditing, Mitigation, and Monitoring; Conclusion; References....(more)" |