Attachment 5 NEPA Checklist.doc

Attachment 5, 12639522R0030

NEPA Compliance Checklist Project Name:

Project Location:

Project Description:

Contract No.:

Category:

1. Is the project likely to be inconsistent with any applicable federal, State, Indian tribal, or local law, regulation, or standard designed to protect any aspect of the environment? (e.g. local noise control ordinance, odors, air quality, requirement for the control of hazardous or toxic substances)

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2. Is the project likely to have results that are inconsistent with locally desired social, economic, or other environmental conditions?

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3. Is the project likely to result in the use, storage, release and/or disposal of toxic, hazardous, or radioactive materials or in the exposure of people to such materials?

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4. Is the project likely to adversely affect a significant aspect of the natural environment i.e., plants, animals, shrubs, grasses, fish, environmentally sensitive areas, etc.?

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5. Is the project likely to adversely affect a significant aspect of the sociocultural environment?

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6. Is the project likely to generate controversy on environmental grounds?

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7. Is there a high level of uncertainty about the project's environmental effects?

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8. Is the project likely to do something especially risky to have an effect on the quality of the human environment i.e., that is likely to be highly controversial in terms of scientific validity; likely to be highly uncertain; likely to involve unique or unknown environmental risks?

Explanation for Question 8:

9 Is the project part of an ongoing pattern of projects (whether under the control of USDA or others) that are cumulatively likely to have adverse effects on the human environment?

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10. Is the project likely to set a precedent for, or represent a decision in principle about, future projects that could have significant effects on the human environment?

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11. Is the project likely to have some other adverse effect on public health and safety or on any other environmental media or resources that are not specifically identified above?"

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12. Is the project likely to have a significant impact on a district, site, highway, structure, or object that is listed in or eligible for listing in the National Registry of Historic Places, affects a historic or cultural resource or traditional and sacred sites, or the loss or destruction of a significant scientific, cultural, or historic resource?

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13. Is the project likely to have significant effect on public health or public safety?

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14. Is this project likely to have a significant impact on species or habitats protected by the endangered Species Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, or Magnuson-Stevenson Fishery and Management Act?

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15. Is the project likely to have a significant effect on a unique characteristic of the geographical area such as park land, prime farmland, wetland, floodplain, coastal zone or a wild scenic river, sole or principal drinking water aquifers, or an ecologically critical area?

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16. Will the proposed action have need of a Spill Control and Countermeasure Plan, and/or Installation Spill Contingency Plan?

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17. Will the proposed action require a NPDES stormwater or wastewater discharge permit?

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18. Does the project have the potential for significant degradation of already existing poor environmental conditions? Also, does the project involve the initiation of a potentially significant environmental degrading influence, activity, or effect in areas not already significantly modified from their natural condition?

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19. Does the project involve the employment of new or unproven technology that is likely to involve unique or unknown environmental risks, where the effect on the human environment is likely to be highly uncertain, or where the effect on the human environment is likely to be highly controversial in terms of scientific validity?

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20. Will the project set a precedent that forecloses future options that may have significant effect?

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21. Is the project of significantly greater scope or size than normally experienced for a particular category of action?

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22. Will the proposed action result in the need for new systems or substantial alterations to the following: (please identify)

· Electrical power, fossil fuel, or other

· Drinking water

· Wastewater treatment

· Sewer collection system

· Wash racks

· Solid waste disposal

Explanation of Question 22:

CONCLUSION

The project is a CATEX and requires no further environmental review.

The project is a CATEX but requires further review under one or more other environmental authorities (list).

The project is a FONSI

The project requires an EA.

The project requires an EIS.

Project Manager

Date

Environmental Quality Representative

APHIS Environmental Protection Program Manager

Ref.:

7 CFR 1.b.3; 7 CFR 372.5(c) http://www.gsa.gov/graphics/pbs/PBS_NEPA_Deskguide.pdf Nov 2013

February 2016