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Title: The Environmental Evaluation


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The Environmental Evaluation
  • Where Science and Technology Meets Programs

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  • What is the environmental evaluation?
  • The part of planning that inventories and
    estimates the potential effects on the human
    environment of alternative solutions to resource
    problems. CFR 650 4(c)

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Science Technology Meets Programs
  • Programs
  • Planning
  • Financial Assistance
  • Technical Assistance
  • Science Technology
  • We need to understand the effects of the actions
    we recommend and fund
  • Science-based
  • Technology-based tools and products

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Planning
  • The environmental evaluation is part of the
    planning process
  • Inventory resources Baseline or benchmark
    conditions
  • Identify alternatives No action, proposed
    action, others
  • Evaluate effects Document them briefly!
  • Integrate NEPA Findings

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Productivity Growth in U.S. Agriculture, 1948-96
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U.S. commercial fertilizer use, 1960-98
Million Nutrient Tons
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Conventional pesticide use on major crops, 1964-97
Million pounds of active ingredient
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Financial Assistance
  • What are the concerns? Which programs can meet
    that need? Any tradeoffs?
  • Irrigation efficiency improvements v. artificial
    wetlands
  • Mowing affect nesting birds?
  • Does the recommended action meet the intended
    purpose?
  • ESA, clean water act or other potential
    violations?

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Objectives of Water Conservation
  • Quantity
  • Quality
  • Timing and In-stream Flows
  • Risk Management

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Technical Assistance
  • Its just a design!
  • Any listed aquatic species going to be disturbed?
  • Floodplain functions altered?
  • Dont lead a landowner to do inadvertent resource
    damage
  • Inventory ALL the resources first not just
    soils/geology
  • Assess effects and design to avoid adverse effects

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Science Technology
  • Understand the effects of the actions we
    recommend and fund
  • Dont just give the landowner what they ask for
  • Dont put in a buffer or wildlife feeding plot
    just to meet a goal
  • What is the problem that needs to be solved?
  • What practice(s) will best address that problem?
  • Where should they be located to be most
    effective?

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Science-Based
  • Quality Criteria is based on concepts of
  • Best available technology and
  • Cost efficiency/practicability
  • Ecology is the great integrator!
  • Changing the landscape by putting in a structure
    or measure may change interactions of humans
    and/or species with each other or with other
    elements of the environment

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Technology-based tools
  • Give the field folks tools that make the science
    easy to understand and apply
  • They cant be experts in everything!

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Science Technology Meets Programs
  • Planning
  • Financial Assistance
  • Technical Assistance
  • Science Technology
  • We need to understand the effects of the actions
    we recommend and fund
  • Science-based
  • Technology-based tools

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State-Of-The-Art
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