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4
Overview and Initiating the Environmental
Impact Analysis and Assessment
The preceding two chapters dealt with the regulatory, institutional, admin-
istrative, and procedural aspects of environmental impact analysis and
assessment with a particular focus on NEPA, the rst government-legislated
environmental analysis program. These two chapters laid the foundation for
environmental analysis, documenting the history, need, and requirements.
The discussion in Chapters 2 and 3 conveyed information on why an analy-
sis is necessary, the objectives of an analysis, and what can be accomplished
through environmental impact analysis, but