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Shipley News
“Reviewing the Latest CEQ Guidance on
Cumulative Impacts”
By Larry Freeman, PhD.
The Shipley Group, Senior Consultant
On
June 24, 2005 the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) issued a memo
entitled “Guidance on Consideration of Past Actions in Cumulative
Effects Analysis.” The occasion for the memo was the CEQ’s desire to
clarify how agencies should analyze past impacts in their NEPA
cumulative effects analyses.
The
following comments and questions are based on my reading of the June 24
memo. I discuss the following:
- Guidance
on the Analysis of Past Impacts
- Review
of CEQ’s Approach to Cumulative Impact Analysis
- Remaining Questions
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ENVIRONMENTAL/NEPA
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The
U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the
Amerada Hess Corporation are working together today to cleanup
an oil spill and recover impacted wildlife at a rookery on
West Breton Island.
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 The shiny black coating applied to parking lots and driveways has extremely high concentrations of a chemical compound that can affect the quality of water in urban areas, according to a recent joint USGS and City of Austin study. In the study, coal-tar based sealants are shown to have extremely elevated concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs are an environmental concern because they are toxic to aquatic life and some types are suspected human carcinogens.
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 The
Bureau of Land Management today announced the availability
of a final environmental impact study that concludes upcoming
grazing term benefits for public rangelands. An official notice
of the study’s availability will be published in the Federal
Register on Friday, June 17, 2005.
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 Wildland
fire does not respect jurisdictional boundaries. No single
federal, state, local, tribal, or volunteer agency alone can
handle all wildland fire that may occur in its jurisdiction.
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