NR 425 Final questions with accurate answers
"Potential to Significantly Affect the Quality of the Human
Environment?" Ans✓✓✓ Includes effects on:
- Natural Environment (water, air, bio)
- Built Environment (traffic, noise, ag)
- Human Health (damage from natural disasters, risk of exposure or
contracting)
Effects on the nonphysical:
- Economics (included when related to natural or physical effects)
- Social Issues (not intended by themselves)
Approaches to Impact Prediction Ans✓✓✓ Reliance on prediction of
impacts in similar environmental impact analyses.
- Power generation facilities, wastewater treatment, transportation
infrastructure
Use of assessment models
- Range from simple forms (think Excel) to sophisticated computer
models that incorporate many variables
- Quality of input data is key
- Need qualified team members to interpret results
Benefits and Potential Sources of Literature Review Ans✓✓✓
Benefits: Improves quality of analyses
, - Public agency/academic data typically for longer durations; can
indicate trends and long-term averages
- Generally of high quality
- More likely to be accepted by stakeholders
- More efficient
Potential Sources:
- Previously-conducted environmental analyses
- Established monitoring programs
- Hazardous Waste Lists
- Academic Research
- Community General Plans
- Regional Planning Agencies
- Stakeholder input
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Ans✓✓✓ Lake
Streambed Alteration Agreement: Requires any person, state, or local
governmental agency to notify CDFW before beginning any activity that
will do one or more of the following
- Substantially divert or obstruct the natural flow of any river, stream, or
lake
- Substantially change or use any material from the bed, channel, or
bank of ^^
- Deposit or dispose of debris, waste, or other material containing
crumbled, flaked, or ground pavement where it may pass into any ^^
"Potential to Significantly Affect the Quality of the Human
Environment?" Ans✓✓✓ Includes effects on:
- Natural Environment (water, air, bio)
- Built Environment (traffic, noise, ag)
- Human Health (damage from natural disasters, risk of exposure or
contracting)
Effects on the nonphysical:
- Economics (included when related to natural or physical effects)
- Social Issues (not intended by themselves)
Approaches to Impact Prediction Ans✓✓✓ Reliance on prediction of
impacts in similar environmental impact analyses.
- Power generation facilities, wastewater treatment, transportation
infrastructure
Use of assessment models
- Range from simple forms (think Excel) to sophisticated computer
models that incorporate many variables
- Quality of input data is key
- Need qualified team members to interpret results
Benefits and Potential Sources of Literature Review Ans✓✓✓
Benefits: Improves quality of analyses
, - Public agency/academic data typically for longer durations; can
indicate trends and long-term averages
- Generally of high quality
- More likely to be accepted by stakeholders
- More efficient
Potential Sources:
- Previously-conducted environmental analyses
- Established monitoring programs
- Hazardous Waste Lists
- Academic Research
- Community General Plans
- Regional Planning Agencies
- Stakeholder input
CA Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Ans✓✓✓ Lake
Streambed Alteration Agreement: Requires any person, state, or local
governmental agency to notify CDFW before beginning any activity that
will do one or more of the following
- Substantially divert or obstruct the natural flow of any river, stream, or
lake
- Substantially change or use any material from the bed, channel, or
bank of ^^
- Deposit or dispose of debris, waste, or other material containing
crumbled, flaked, or ground pavement where it may pass into any ^^
