Terms Used
ROD (Record of Decision)
This type of decision document is
used when an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has
been produced. Decisions documented in a Record Of Decision
are ubject to administrative appeals.
EIS (Environmental Impact Statement)
This document discloses the environmental
impacts to be expected from the proposed action and
from specific alternatives to the proposed action. An
EIS is prepared when significant environmental impacts
are anticipated. Your comments are requested within
45 days of release of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement
(DEIS). Your comments are considered prior to making
the final decision and are responded to in the Final
Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS).
DN (Decision Notice)
This type of decision document is
used when an Environmental Assessment (EA) is conducted
and it is concluded that no significant environmental
impact will result from implementing the preferred alternative.
(If a significant environmental impact will result,
an EIS must be prepared.) Decisions documented in a
Decision Notice are subject to administrative appeal
unless there has been no expression of public interest
in the action.
EA (Environmental Assessment)
This document discloses the environmental
impacts to be expected from the proposed action and
from specific alternatives to the proposed action. An
EA is prepared when significant environmental impacts
are not anticipated or when there is a question as to
the extent of the impacts. Your comments are requested
within 30 days of release of an EA. Your comments are
considered prior to making the final decision and are
responded to in an appendix to the EA.
DM (Decision Memo)
A number of categories
of action have been determined from prior experience
and analysis to result in no significant impact to the
environment. If a proposed action falls into one of
these categories, and if no extraordinary circumstances
exist which might cause an adverse impact in the specific
case, these actions can be "categorically excluded"
from documentation in an EA or EIS. A Decision Memo
document is used when the environmental analysis has
been "categorically excluded". Ordinarily,
decisions documented in a Decision Memo are not subject
to administrative appeal; the exception is the category
of small timber sales (unless there has been no expression
of public interest in the sale).
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