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Shipley News
“Who Rewrites Your Draft Text?”
By Larry Freeman, PhD.
The Shipley Group, Senior Consultant
If the answer is anyone besides you yourself, you aren't writing as efficiently as you should. Shipley consultants have always advised technical and scientific writers to be responsible for their own revisions. Managers, project leaders, and colleagues can and should provide review comments and suggestions, but the writer should be responsible for drafting revised text.
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ENVIRONMENTAL/NEPA
News from across the Agencies
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"The
departments of the Interior, Commerce, and Agriculture announced
today new Interim Final Rules to improve licensing procedures
for hydropower while protecting threatened and endangered
fish species, water quality, and federal and tribal resources.”
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a Cedar City developer
have settled a Federal district court case challenging the
assessment of a civil penalty for taking threatened Utah prairie
dogs.”
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 “EPA
enforcement actions in fiscal year 2005 resulted in legal
commitments by companies, governments and other regulated
entities to reduce a projected 1.1 billion pounds of pollution
and require that they spend a record $10 billion to come into
compliance with environmental laws.”
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Lessons Learned From the Smith Paper
In The Shipley Group's May 2005 E-News,
we featured a paper written by Shipley Consultant, Michael
Smith, PhD, titled "Recent
Trends in Cumulative Impact Case Law." Dr. Smith's findings
revealed serious weakness in the discussions of cumulative
impacts.
- Make
sure you consider cumulative impacts for each resource you
are analyzing, and that you carefully search out, document,
and analyze past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future
actions.
- Do not make substantiated claims about cumulative
impacts in your analysis.
- Perfect
analysis of cumulative impacts is not necessary, but you
need to make some attempt to address cumulative impacts.
- Do not tier cumulative impacts analysis to documents
that do not contain site-specific analyses.
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