ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES
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METHODS FOR ASSESSING IMPACTS
Cumulative Impacts
Council on Environmental Quality regulations, which implement NEPA, require
assessment of cumulative impacts in the decision-making process for federal
projects. Cumulative impacts are defined as “the impact on the environment,
which results from the incremental impact of the action when added to other
past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions regardless of what
agency (federal or nonfederal) or person undertakes such other actions (40 CFR
1508.7).” Cumulative impacts are considered for all alternatives.
Cumulative impacts were determined by combining the impacts of the preferred
alternative (rehabilitating and reconstructing Highway 62 West) with other past,
present, or reasonably foreseeable future actions. It was, therefore, necessary
to identify major past, ongoing, or reasonably foreseeable future actions
affecting the park.
There were no past projects identified during scoping that would contribute to
cumulative impacts. Present and future actions that may have potential to
cumulatively impact resources include:
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planned prescribed burns (fire management),
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trails rehabilitation and relocation,
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reconstruction of the Rim parking lot,
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waterline replacement from Munson Springs to Garfield,
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lagoon project at Munson Valley, and
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rehabilitation of superintendent’s house.
