NR 425 Midterm questions with accurate answers
1. Description of Affected Environment/ Existing Conditions (EIA)
Ans✓✓✓ Characterize the existing or baseline conditions upon which
the proposed project will be imposed
- literature review (previous EIR's and EIR related documents)
- original investigation
2. Impact Prediction Models (EIA) Ans✓✓✓ 1. Checklist: useful for
identifying key impacts and ensuring that they are not overlooked,
especially in scoping
2. Matrices: mainly used for impact identification, but provide the ability
to show cause-effect links between impact sources and impacts, can also
indicate features of impacts like predicted magnitudes and whether they
will be localized, extensive, long term, short term
2. Maps and GIS: can indicate impact areas and location and extent of
receptor sites
3: Flowcharts/ Networks: useful for identifying cause-effect relationship
between impact and sources
4: Mathematical/ Statistical Model: applied to calculate deterministic or
probabilisitic quantitative values from numerical input data
2. Prediction of Impacts (EIA) Ans✓✓✓ Determination of how the
existing conditions of each environmental resource will be changed or
impacted by the implementation of the proposed project
,3. Impact Mitigation (EIA) Ans✓✓✓ Measures designed to mitigate
the impacts of the proposed project through avoidance, minimization,
reduction, or elimination (over time), rectification, and/or compensation
Adaptive Management of Mitigation Measures Ans✓✓✓ - too often,
agencies develop mitigation measures that are too vague, deferred to the
future, or both, which lead to unsuccessfulness of measure
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
-based on the idea that mitigation should be adapted over time
depending on how well the measure is working
- Four step process:
1. develop mitigation with future condition or performance standards
included
2. implement mitigation
3. monitor to determine success
4. adjust as necessary
Alternatives Analysis Ans✓✓✓ - summary of projects and objectives
- summary of significant impacts of the proposed project
- develop Reasonable Range of Alternatives
- alternatives considered and rejected in infeasible, do not meet most of
the project objectives, or do not reduce project impacts
- or, alternatives brought forward for analysis
- Analysis of Alternatives:
, detailed description, comparison of impacts to project (by Issue Area),
attainment of project objectives, summary of impacts of all alternatives
compared to project
- identification of Environmentally Superior Alternative or No Project
Alternative
CA Fish and Wildlife Ans✓✓✓ - Lake and Stream bed Alteration
Agreement: requires a person, state, or local governmental agency, or
public utility to notify CDFW before beginning activity
Jurisdiction: beds, banks, and channels of lakes, rivers, and streams,
includes adjacent riparian vegetation
Categorical Exemptions Ans✓✓✓ - broad categories or "classes" of
exemptions that have minimal adverse environmental effects
- each public agency must publish its own list of specific activities that
fall within each class
- Ex: "Class 1: operation, repair, or maintenance of existing structures or
facilities"
CEQA Ans✓✓✓
CEQA Phase 1: Preliminary Review Ans✓✓✓ - Is it a project?
- Does it have an exemption?
---> Notice of Exemption
CEQA Phase 2: Initial Study (IS/EA) Ans✓✓✓ Required Content:
1. Description of Affected Environment/ Existing Conditions (EIA)
Ans✓✓✓ Characterize the existing or baseline conditions upon which
the proposed project will be imposed
- literature review (previous EIR's and EIR related documents)
- original investigation
2. Impact Prediction Models (EIA) Ans✓✓✓ 1. Checklist: useful for
identifying key impacts and ensuring that they are not overlooked,
especially in scoping
2. Matrices: mainly used for impact identification, but provide the ability
to show cause-effect links between impact sources and impacts, can also
indicate features of impacts like predicted magnitudes and whether they
will be localized, extensive, long term, short term
2. Maps and GIS: can indicate impact areas and location and extent of
receptor sites
3: Flowcharts/ Networks: useful for identifying cause-effect relationship
between impact and sources
4: Mathematical/ Statistical Model: applied to calculate deterministic or
probabilisitic quantitative values from numerical input data
2. Prediction of Impacts (EIA) Ans✓✓✓ Determination of how the
existing conditions of each environmental resource will be changed or
impacted by the implementation of the proposed project
,3. Impact Mitigation (EIA) Ans✓✓✓ Measures designed to mitigate
the impacts of the proposed project through avoidance, minimization,
reduction, or elimination (over time), rectification, and/or compensation
Adaptive Management of Mitigation Measures Ans✓✓✓ - too often,
agencies develop mitigation measures that are too vague, deferred to the
future, or both, which lead to unsuccessfulness of measure
ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
-based on the idea that mitigation should be adapted over time
depending on how well the measure is working
- Four step process:
1. develop mitigation with future condition or performance standards
included
2. implement mitigation
3. monitor to determine success
4. adjust as necessary
Alternatives Analysis Ans✓✓✓ - summary of projects and objectives
- summary of significant impacts of the proposed project
- develop Reasonable Range of Alternatives
- alternatives considered and rejected in infeasible, do not meet most of
the project objectives, or do not reduce project impacts
- or, alternatives brought forward for analysis
- Analysis of Alternatives:
, detailed description, comparison of impacts to project (by Issue Area),
attainment of project objectives, summary of impacts of all alternatives
compared to project
- identification of Environmentally Superior Alternative or No Project
Alternative
CA Fish and Wildlife Ans✓✓✓ - Lake and Stream bed Alteration
Agreement: requires a person, state, or local governmental agency, or
public utility to notify CDFW before beginning activity
Jurisdiction: beds, banks, and channels of lakes, rivers, and streams,
includes adjacent riparian vegetation
Categorical Exemptions Ans✓✓✓ - broad categories or "classes" of
exemptions that have minimal adverse environmental effects
- each public agency must publish its own list of specific activities that
fall within each class
- Ex: "Class 1: operation, repair, or maintenance of existing structures or
facilities"
CEQA Ans✓✓✓
CEQA Phase 1: Preliminary Review Ans✓✓✓ - Is it a project?
- Does it have an exemption?
---> Notice of Exemption
CEQA Phase 2: Initial Study (IS/EA) Ans✓✓✓ Required Content:
