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. w . tA) Q tJ1 . . CHAPTER II GENERAL APPROACH TO THE WORK Public The role of the public in the study will be to identify problems and needs and to recommend possible solutions. Opportunities will be provided for in- dividuals from the public sector to serve on the planning team. The public will be kept informed through a series of public meetings, news letters prepared by the planning team leader, and by personal contact with team members. Among the public meetings that will be held are environmental scoping, alternative p1an(s), and plan selection. The public will have the opportunity to review the feasibility' report and draft environnlental statement as discussed in Chapter V. A tentative schedule of public involvement events is presented below. Suggested Schedule of Key Public Involvement Events Event number l. 2. Meeting to organize planning team - - - - - - - - Meeting to identify possible alternatives and environmental issues - - - - - - - - - Meeting to review alternatives and environ- mental data - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Newsletter #1 Results of alternatives -- - - - - Meeting to select p1an(s) - - - - - - - - - Newsletter #2 Results of plan selection - - - - - Notice of intent to prepare environmental statement - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Meeting to scope environmental issues - - - Newsletter #3 Results of scoping issues - - Newsletter #4 Status of Phase I Contract- - Newsletter #5 Completion of environmental data and engineering data gathering- - - Newsletter #6 Complete Phase II Contract- - Public Notice of Hearing on EIS - Public EIS Hearing - - - - - Commissioner's news release Approximate date Fall 1980 Fall 1981 Winter 1981 Winter 1981 Summer 1981 Summer 1981 Summer 1981 Summer 1981 Fall 1981 Winter 1982 Fall 1982 Spring 1983 Spring 1984 Spring 1984 Summer 1985 The public will be involved in the environmental scoping procedures. This will be the early and open process called for by the CEQ regulations for iden- tifying significant and insignificant environme~tal issues related to the pro- posed action. Once the preferred p1an(s) has been identified, the planning team will invite public participation at scoping meetings. The team will ana- lyze the input from the meetings and select those issues deserving study in the environmental statement.. The process is continuous and allows the public the opportunity to respond throughout the course of the study. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 12 "" :i;;-~