Thursday, April  29 , 2004

Shipley News


Feature Article
 

Reviewing Impacts and Cumulative Impacts in Documentation
(By Dr. Larry Freeman) 
Late in 2003 a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) arrived in the Shipley Group office. A land management agency had prepared the DEIS to analyze and disclose impacts of proposed grazing regulations on the agency’s grazing allotments. The DEIS was programmatic in that it dealt with changes in regulatory actions, not with site-specific on-the-ground actions. 
Here are four of the lessons to be learned from this DEIS:
...to read more

 

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HEALTHY FOREST INITIATIVE
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NEPA Tip of the Month

Seven Principles of Quality

  1. Collaboratively develop a vision of the final EIS or EA and all its supporting information.
     
  2. Set the page layout and document structure to match this vision.
     
  3. Use CEQs recommended outline to ensure that your EIS or EA is analytic, not encyclopedic.
     
  4. Mock-up/storyboard the entire EIS or EA, including projected graphics for major NEPA conclusions and supporting facts.
     
  5. Then, and only then, begin to draft the full text.
     
  6. Review the evolving text and graphics to verify their relevance and effectiveness.
     
  7. Shepherd the drafts (print-ready copy, CD, or web version) through production and assemble all supporting information.

“How to Write Quality EISs and EAs” 
                              The Shipley Group

 

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