NR 425 Exam Review questions with accurate
answers
4 main categories of Aquatic Resources covered Ans✓✓✓ 1. Territorial
seas + traditional navigable waters
2. Perennial + intermittent tributaries
3. Certain lakes, ponds + impoundments
4. Wetlands adjacent to jurisdictional waters
An ECA is a mechanism for... Ans✓✓✓ -Project Design Improvement
-Education
-Communication
-Project Planning
-Permit Streamlining
Benefits of EIA Ans✓✓✓ Require decision makers to account for
environmental values
-"Improve" projects/plans
-Achieve environmental protection
-Promote sustainability
-Develop/enhance stakeholder support
California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Ans✓✓✓
Regulatory Mission: manage California's diverse fish, wildlife, and plant
,resources, and the habitats upon which they depend, for their ecological
values and for their use and enjoyment by the public.
Location: Central Region (Region 4)
Statute: State Endangered Species Act
Central Coast Regional Quality Control Board (RWQCB) Ans✓✓✓
Regulatory Mission: Developing and enforcing water quality objectives
and implementing plans that will best protect the area's waters while
recognizing our local differences in climate, topography, geology and
hydrology.
Location: Central Coast (Region 3)
Statute: Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 401 and Porter-Cologne Water
Quality Control Act
CEQA Appendix G Ans✓✓✓ -Aesthetics
-Geology
-Mineral Resources
-Transportation/Traffic
CEQA Objectives Ans✓✓✓ Foster Intergovernmental Coordinate
Avoid/Reduce Environmental Damage
, Disclose Environmental Impacts
Enhance Public Participation
Disclose Agency Decision making
CEQA Process Phases Ans✓✓✓ Phase 1: Preliminary Review
Phase 2: Initial Study
Phase 3: ND/MND or EIR
Phase 4: Decision Documentation
Class Impacts Ans✓✓✓ I: Significant and unavoidable
II: Less than Significant WITH mitigation to make it below threshold of
significance
III: Below threshold of significance
CRHR Criteria Ans✓✓✓ 1. It is associated with events that have made
a significant contribution to the broad patterns of California's cultural
heritage.
2. It is associated with the lives of persons important in the past.
3. It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or
method of construction; represents the work of an important creative
individual; or possess high artistic values.
4. It has yeilded, or may be likely to yield information important in
history or prehistory.
answers
4 main categories of Aquatic Resources covered Ans✓✓✓ 1. Territorial
seas + traditional navigable waters
2. Perennial + intermittent tributaries
3. Certain lakes, ponds + impoundments
4. Wetlands adjacent to jurisdictional waters
An ECA is a mechanism for... Ans✓✓✓ -Project Design Improvement
-Education
-Communication
-Project Planning
-Permit Streamlining
Benefits of EIA Ans✓✓✓ Require decision makers to account for
environmental values
-"Improve" projects/plans
-Achieve environmental protection
-Promote sustainability
-Develop/enhance stakeholder support
California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Ans✓✓✓
Regulatory Mission: manage California's diverse fish, wildlife, and plant
,resources, and the habitats upon which they depend, for their ecological
values and for their use and enjoyment by the public.
Location: Central Region (Region 4)
Statute: State Endangered Species Act
Central Coast Regional Quality Control Board (RWQCB) Ans✓✓✓
Regulatory Mission: Developing and enforcing water quality objectives
and implementing plans that will best protect the area's waters while
recognizing our local differences in climate, topography, geology and
hydrology.
Location: Central Coast (Region 3)
Statute: Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 401 and Porter-Cologne Water
Quality Control Act
CEQA Appendix G Ans✓✓✓ -Aesthetics
-Geology
-Mineral Resources
-Transportation/Traffic
CEQA Objectives Ans✓✓✓ Foster Intergovernmental Coordinate
Avoid/Reduce Environmental Damage
, Disclose Environmental Impacts
Enhance Public Participation
Disclose Agency Decision making
CEQA Process Phases Ans✓✓✓ Phase 1: Preliminary Review
Phase 2: Initial Study
Phase 3: ND/MND or EIR
Phase 4: Decision Documentation
Class Impacts Ans✓✓✓ I: Significant and unavoidable
II: Less than Significant WITH mitigation to make it below threshold of
significance
III: Below threshold of significance
CRHR Criteria Ans✓✓✓ 1. It is associated with events that have made
a significant contribution to the broad patterns of California's cultural
heritage.
2. It is associated with the lives of persons important in the past.
3. It embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, region, or
method of construction; represents the work of an important creative
individual; or possess high artistic values.
4. It has yeilded, or may be likely to yield information important in
history or prehistory.
