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Title: Review of technical approaches for cumulative ecological impact assessment. Final report

Abstract

Government agencies are responsible for assuring that environmental impacts caused by specific projects or developments are within limits established in applicable regulations. Realization that significant cumulative impacts might result from a number of seemingly insignificant impacts of several independent projects or actions has lead many agencies to require the assessment of cumulative impacts in permits and licenses. Literature was reviewed and an annotated bibliography developed. The review document presents widely accepted definitions of cumulative impacts, summarizes and synthesizes current approaches to assessing cumulative impacts, identifies common elements among approaches, and assesses how existing information and approaches might be applied to individual aquatic systems with multiple large generating facilities and other dischargers or to the dispersed effects of many small non-utility generating facilities.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Versar, Inc., Columbia, MD (United States). ESM Operations
OSTI Identifier:
5373528
Report Number(s):
PB-94-138831/XAB
CNN: PPER-PR91-047-001
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; MARYLAND; POLLUTION REGULATIONS; POWER PLANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; NORTH AMERICA; REGULATIONS; USA; 290300* - Energy Planning & Policy- Environment, Health, & Safety; 200500 - Fossil-Fueled Power Plants- Environmental Aspects- (1990-)

Citation Formats

Hochberg, R J, Friday, M A, and Stroup, C F. Review of technical approaches for cumulative ecological impact assessment. Final report. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
Hochberg, R J, Friday, M A, & Stroup, C F. Review of technical approaches for cumulative ecological impact assessment. Final report. United States.
Hochberg, R J, Friday, M A, and Stroup, C F. 1993. "Review of technical approaches for cumulative ecological impact assessment. Final report". United States.
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abstractNote = {Government agencies are responsible for assuring that environmental impacts caused by specific projects or developments are within limits established in applicable regulations. Realization that significant cumulative impacts might result from a number of seemingly insignificant impacts of several independent projects or actions has lead many agencies to require the assessment of cumulative impacts in permits and licenses. Literature was reviewed and an annotated bibliography developed. The review document presents widely accepted definitions of cumulative impacts, summarizes and synthesizes current approaches to assessing cumulative impacts, identifies common elements among approaches, and assesses how existing information and approaches might be applied to individual aquatic systems with multiple large generating facilities and other dischargers or to the dispersed effects of many small non-utility generating facilities.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
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