NR 425 Final questions with accurate answers
1. Existing environmental conditions Ans✓✓✓ 1. Literature review
2. Original studies/investigations
3. Data compilation and synthesis
2. Prediction of impacts Ans✓✓✓ -environmental issue areas
-significance criteria (or thresholds of significance)
-impact prediction conceptual models
alternatives are rejected when Ans✓✓✓ 1. infeasible
2. do not meet most of project objectives
3. do not reduce project impacts
approaches to impact prediction Ans✓✓✓ -The description of the
Existing Conditions is the major input to impact prediction.
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.
approaches to significance criteria Ans✓✓✓ In adopting thresholds,
lead agencies should consider the following:
-Whether the threshold is consistent with the agency's policies,
especially as expressed in adopted plans;
-Whether there are environmental laws, rules and regulations that can be
used in developing the thresholds;
-Whether the threshold is consistent with thresholds recommended by
other agencies, in particular regulatory agencies with jurisdiction over
the resource in question;
-Whether a threshold is quantitative and objective rather than qualitative
or subjective; and
-The degree to which the threshold is simple to interpret and implement.
built environment Ans✓✓✓ -traffic/transportation
-noise
-historic/cultural resources
-agriculture
-land use conflicts
-recreation
1. Existing environmental conditions Ans✓✓✓ 1. Literature review
2. Original studies/investigations
3. Data compilation and synthesis
2. Prediction of impacts Ans✓✓✓ -environmental issue areas
-significance criteria (or thresholds of significance)
-impact prediction conceptual models
alternatives are rejected when Ans✓✓✓ 1. infeasible
2. do not meet most of project objectives
3. do not reduce project impacts
approaches to impact prediction Ans✓✓✓ -The description of the
Existing Conditions is the major input to impact prediction.
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.
approaches to significance criteria Ans✓✓✓ In adopting thresholds,
lead agencies should consider the following:
-Whether the threshold is consistent with the agency's policies,
especially as expressed in adopted plans;
-Whether there are environmental laws, rules and regulations that can be
used in developing the thresholds;
-Whether the threshold is consistent with thresholds recommended by
other agencies, in particular regulatory agencies with jurisdiction over
the resource in question;
-Whether a threshold is quantitative and objective rather than qualitative
or subjective; and
-The degree to which the threshold is simple to interpret and implement.
built environment Ans✓✓✓ -traffic/transportation
-noise
-historic/cultural resources
-agriculture
-land use conflicts
-recreation
