323International and Individual State Environmental Impact Analysis
document to the appropriate government entities and includes a summary
of comments received and how they were addressed in the nal document.
The law provides no guidance or requirements for the analyses, the infor-
mation to be gathered, treatment of alternatives, or structure of the assess-
ment. Instead, it relies on the project proponent, who knows most about the
project and the stakeholders, who have the greatest potential to be affected,
to develop an EIA scope on a project-specic basis. Once the scoping is
complete and the investigations and analyses called for during scoping are
completed, a draft EIA is produced and distributed to the public.
The project ...