Producing a programmatic environmental impact statement for a large federal facility: a GIS technical leader`s perspective
Producing a programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for a large federal facility requires consideration of a wide range of activities, collection of an extensive amount of data, and analysis and modeling to determine the nature and extent of potential environmental impacts. EIS documents provide the most detailed analyses of federal facilities required by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. An extensive, environmentally focused Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed and used in the analyses, modeling, and mapping for an EIS of a federal facility with an area of more than 100 square miles. The final products of the EIS process will include a printed document with more than 250-GIS-produced maps, CD-ROM versions of both the document and the GIS metadata dictionary, and an environmentally focused GIS that will form a baseline of information for the facility. The environmental GIS will augment the installation`s existing infrastructure-related GIS>
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Department of Defense, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 241451
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/EA/CP-88612; CONF-9605153-1; ON: DE96009044
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 16. annual Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) User conference, Palm Springs, CA (United States), 20-24 May 1996; Other Information: PBD: [1996]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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