Item talk:Q227439

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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/fort-collins-science-center/science/developing-a-step-step-process-assessing-cumulative",
 "headline": "Developing a step-by-step process for assessing cumulative effects in the Bureau of Land Management",
 "datePublished": "December 14, 2021",
 "author": [
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     "name": "Sarah Carter, PhD",
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     "text": "Work with BLM staff to develop a technical reference that describes the process, lays out a standard workflow for analyses, and provides multiple examples."
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   {
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     "text": "Compile and synthesize policy, guidance, and science for analyzing cumulative effects in the BLM."
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     "text": "The BLM and the Council on Environmental Quality have issued policy and guidance on analyzing cumulative effects. In addition, the scientific literature has explored frameworks for analyzing cumulative effects. Our goal for this project is to build on this past work by developing a clear, step-by-step process that BLM staff can follow to analyze potential cumulative effects of proposed actions on federal public lands. We have outlined five objectives to meet this goal:"
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     "text": "Develop a step-by-step process for analyzing cumulative effects in the BLM, test that process by applying it to several actions commonly proposed on BLM lands, and create a suite of \u2018worked examples\u2019 for different types of proposed actions and affected resources."
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     "text": "Assess the nature of recent challenges to BLM cumulative effects analyses in litigation and protests."
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   {
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     "text": "The USGS and BLM are partnering to coproduce practical, actionable science that informs planning, policy, and management decisions on public lands managed by the BLM (see Beier and others, 2017 for more information on coproduction)."
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     "text": "Many Bureau of Land Management (BLM) planning and management decisions require analysis of the potential direct, indirect, and cumulative environmental effects of proposed actions under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). To analyze potential cumulative effects, public land managers must consider the interaction of the effects of a proposed action with the aggregate effects of all other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future human activities. Cumulative effects are often complex, and the BLM is interested in developing a process that staff can use to strengthen cumulative effects analyses."
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     "text": "Evaluate recent BLM NEPA documents to understand current practice for assessing and documenting cumulative effects."
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     "text": "Our cumulative effects analysis process will be tailored to help BLM staff find the data, science, and methodologies they need to understand and assess potential cumulative effects of commonly proposed actions on BLM lands. Stronger cumulative effects analyses can help BLM resource managers better understand potential future impacts of their planning and management decisions within and across landscapes, supporting Department of the Interior efforts to manage public lands and resources at the landscape scale."
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   {
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     "text": "The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to assess potential impacts of proposed actions as part of their decision-making processes. Assessing potential cumulative effects is a challenging component of NEPA analyses. We are working with the Bureau of Land Management to develop a process that staff can use to strengthen cumulative effects analyses."
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