NR 425 questions with accurate answers
3 possible findings Ans✓✓✓ 1.Changes to the project are within
another agency's jurisdiction, and such changes have been or should be
adopted; or
2. Specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other considerations
such as employment opportunities for highly skilled workers, make the
mitigation or alternatives infeasible
3. The project has been changed to avoid or substantially reduce the
magnitude of the impact
Agency Comments Ans✓✓✓ -Must be limited to aspects of the
document that are within its area of expertise or legal jurisdiction
-If identifies new significant impacts, must submit mitigation measures
and performance objectives/ success criteria
Alternatives Analysis Ans✓✓✓ -Required Alternatives:No Project
Alternative, Environmentally Superior Alternative
-Other Typical Alternatives: Reduced size/intensity, Revised design to
mitigate impacts, Alternative locations
-Must provide rationale for selection and rejection of alternatives
Baseline Ans✓✓✓ -Adequate description of the existing
environment is a necessary prerequisite for a
legally sufficient impact analysis.
- Must be established before impacts of a project can be determined or
measured.
, Class I Impact Ans✓✓✓ -Where an impact will have a "significant and
unavoidable impact" even after all feasible mitigation and existing
regulations are applied to the impact.
Where there are impacts that cannot be alleviated without imposing an
alternative design, their implications and the reasons why the project is
being proposed, notwithstanding their effect, should be described.
Class II Impact Ans✓✓✓ -Where an impact is identified as significant,
but feasible mitigation measures exist (above and beyond the application
of existing regulations or ordinances) to reduce the impact to less than
significant levels.
-Impacts under this classification should include a detailed discussion of
those subject areas that are impacted by the project but avoided, reduced
or minimized through mitigation measures by the proposed project.
-If the significance after mitigation is not clear, then the EIR must
generally conclude that the effect is significant and not mitigated.
Class III Impact Ans✓✓✓ -Where an impact is determined as
insignificant either through the Initial Study process, or when existing
regulations or ordinances are applied to reduce an impact to less than
significant levels.
-As appropriate, a brief discussion of the insignificant effects shall be
included.
-Discussion is warranted when existing regulations/ordinances are
providing the mitigation measures, there is known public controversy or
there are public agency
3 possible findings Ans✓✓✓ 1.Changes to the project are within
another agency's jurisdiction, and such changes have been or should be
adopted; or
2. Specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other considerations
such as employment opportunities for highly skilled workers, make the
mitigation or alternatives infeasible
3. The project has been changed to avoid or substantially reduce the
magnitude of the impact
Agency Comments Ans✓✓✓ -Must be limited to aspects of the
document that are within its area of expertise or legal jurisdiction
-If identifies new significant impacts, must submit mitigation measures
and performance objectives/ success criteria
Alternatives Analysis Ans✓✓✓ -Required Alternatives:No Project
Alternative, Environmentally Superior Alternative
-Other Typical Alternatives: Reduced size/intensity, Revised design to
mitigate impacts, Alternative locations
-Must provide rationale for selection and rejection of alternatives
Baseline Ans✓✓✓ -Adequate description of the existing
environment is a necessary prerequisite for a
legally sufficient impact analysis.
- Must be established before impacts of a project can be determined or
measured.
, Class I Impact Ans✓✓✓ -Where an impact will have a "significant and
unavoidable impact" even after all feasible mitigation and existing
regulations are applied to the impact.
Where there are impacts that cannot be alleviated without imposing an
alternative design, their implications and the reasons why the project is
being proposed, notwithstanding their effect, should be described.
Class II Impact Ans✓✓✓ -Where an impact is identified as significant,
but feasible mitigation measures exist (above and beyond the application
of existing regulations or ordinances) to reduce the impact to less than
significant levels.
-Impacts under this classification should include a detailed discussion of
those subject areas that are impacted by the project but avoided, reduced
or minimized through mitigation measures by the proposed project.
-If the significance after mitigation is not clear, then the EIR must
generally conclude that the effect is significant and not mitigated.
Class III Impact Ans✓✓✓ -Where an impact is determined as
insignificant either through the Initial Study process, or when existing
regulations or ordinances are applied to reduce an impact to less than
significant levels.
-As appropriate, a brief discussion of the insignificant effects shall be
included.
-Discussion is warranted when existing regulations/ordinances are
providing the mitigation measures, there is known public controversy or
there are public agency
