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IEE Assistant

Getting Started

Step 1: List Proposed Activities

Step 2: Do Screening

Step 3: Determine Documentation Required

Step 4: Prepare Documentation

Categorical Exclusion

Initial Environmental Examination

Environmental Assessment

Environmental Status Report

Step 5: Submit

Step 6: Address Queries

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Initial Environmental Examination Assistant

Step 4b: Prepare Documentation:
The Environmental Assessment

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Step 1: List Proposed Activities Step 2: Do Screening Step 3: Determine Documentation Required Step 4: Prepare Documentation Step 4b: Categorical Exclusion Step 4b: IEE Step 4b: EA Environmental Status Report Resources Getting Started IEE Home Step five and six: Subimit and Address Queries

Purpose of this step. Learn about the environmental assessment.

Aids Provided on this Page Links to more detailed information about EAs.

Instructions In your IEE, you recommended a positive determination for one of more activities. This recommendation was approved by the BEO. As a result, you must commission an ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT (EA).* Only once the EA is reviewed and approved, can the activity go forward.

An "EA" is Reg. 216 terminology for a full environmental impact assessment study. In principle, the EA is an expanded, very detailed version of an IEE.

EAs are complex, and this tool cannot serve as a guide to their preparation and execution.

Please review the attached powerpoint presentation for a basic orientation to EA content and the EA process.

*Reg. 216 also permits an EA to be written without writing an IEE first, but we do not recommend this.) See Step 2, Screening for explanation.

 
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