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Conducting the Environmental
Impact Analysis and Assessment
5.1 Environmental Impact Analysis Components
The planning, public input, and compliance with regulations, as dis-
cussed in the preceding four chapters, are all critical to the acceptance,
implementation, and overall success of an environmental impact analysis.
However, all of these activities will bear no fruit without actually conduct-
ing an objective, technically sound, and well documented analysis of the
impacts. The analysis is the detailed and hard work component of the pro-
cess and is analogous to conducting the experiments to test the hypothesis
as part of the scie