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Shipley News
Recent
Trends in Cumulative Impact Case Law
By Michael D. Smith,
PhD.
The Shipley Group, Senior Consultant
Paper Presented at:
National Association of Environmental Professionals (NAEP)
Alexandria, VA, April 16-19, 2005 and
International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA)
Boston, MA, May 31-June 3, 2005
The assessment of cumulative impacts is one of the most difficult tasks a NEPA practitioner faces when preparing an EA or EIS, and it has recently become an increasing focus area of legal challenges. Federal agencies have a poor track record in this litigation, losing a large percentage of the cases. This presentation will focus on practical steps NEPA practitioners can take to prepare their cumulative impact analyses in a manner that fulfills the requirements of the NEPA Statute and Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Regulations and makes them less vulnerable to an unfavorable court decision if legally challenged.....more
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ENVIRONMENTAL/NEPA
News from across the Agencies
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced that State fish and wildlife agencies will share more than $530 million in excise taxes paid by America's recreational shooters, hunters, anglers and boaters, to support fish and wildlife conservation and education programs.
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to view U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth today announced the appointment of Charles (Chuck) Myers as director of forest management.
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 Trees in the world’s most productive forests -- forests that add the most new growth each year -- also tend to die young, according to a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study published in a recent issue of the journal Ecology Letters. This discovery could help scientists predict how forests will respond to ongoing and future environmental changesTrees in the world’s most productive forests -- forests that add the most new growth each year -- also tend to die young, according to a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study published in a recent issue of the journal Ecology Letters. This discovery could help scientists predict how forests will respond to ongoing and future environmental changes.
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PRINCIPLES OF
CUMULATIVE EFFECTS ANALYSIS
- Cumulative effects are caused by the aggregate of
past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future.
- Cumulative effects are the total effect,
including both direct and indirect effects, on a given
resource, ecosystem, and human community of all actions
taken, no matter who (federal, nonfederal, or private)
has taken the actions.
- Cumulative effects need to be analyzed in terms
of the specific resource, ecosystem, and human community
being affected.
- It is not practical to analyze the cumulative
effects of an action on the universe; the list of
environment effects must focus on those that are truly
meaningful.
- Cumulative effects on a given resource,
ecosystem, and human community are rarely aligned with
political or administrative boundaries.
- Cumulative effects may result from the
accumulation of similar effects or the synergistic
interaction or different effects.
- Cumulative effects may last for many years beyond
the life of the action that caused the effects.
- Each affected resource, ecosystem, and human
community must be analyzed in terms of its capacity to
accommodate additional effects, based on its own time
and space parameters.
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