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ENVIRONMENTAL/NEPA
News from across the Agencies
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 "The
Minerals Management Service (MMS) today published a Federal
Register notice announcing plans to prepare
an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the proposed
Cape Wind Energy Project in Nantucket Sound, Massachusetts.
The notice also asks for public input via written comments
and invites interested agencies to participate in the preparation
of the EIS as it moves through the official approval process.”
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 ”Chairman
Richard W. Pombo introduced the American Fisheries
Management and Marine Life Improvement Act. This
bill reauthorizes the Magnuson-Stevens Act, which is
the paramount law governing American Fisheries and
Fishing related activities in U.S. waters.”
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 “Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns today
awarded more that $790,000 in federal cost-share grants
to 12 organizations for use with urban and community
forestry projects nationwide.”
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Reviewing NEPA Documents (RND) -
Reviewing for Document Quality and Readabilty
Document Quality and the accompanying readability of a document arise from features and techniques that appear in the following three levels:
Level 1- Content, Format and Organization
- Does
the document format (page layout) aid readers to
navigate from chapter to chapter and section to
section?
- Do readers know when they begin the document,
a chapter, or a subsection what they are going
to read and why?
- Are legal, regulatory, and policy implications clearly
stated?
- Are sections and subsections clearly and logically
linked, usually through headings, subheadings, and deliberate
repetition of key information?
- Do
conclusions and recommendations appear at the beginnings
of sections, subsections, paragraphs, and sentences?
- Are
graphics (tables, figures, charts, graphs, illustrations,
and maps) used effectively to convey information?
Levels
2 and 3 are in The Shipley Group’s Reviewing NEPA
Documents (RND) Manual.
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