2001 Environmental Review of City Activities

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CITY OF EUGENE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW `~ Organize by Function or Process Groups The first task of the project was to identify the City function and process groups to provide an organizational framework for planning interview sessions and comprehensively identifying City activities. The identified groups closely match the City's departmental organization structure. Interview sessions were planned and conducted according to the function or process groups (Table 1) to efficiently obtain a compressive list of activities performed by the City. Complete Interview Sessions Each interview session was ahalf-day workshop. The interview sessions provided an introduction to the project, communication of the goals and objectives of the project, and description of the purpose of the interviews. CH2M HILL facilitated each of the interview sessions with a member of the ERT or ESA Team. The interview sessions were conducted in an open forum with question and answer sessions. Each representative at the meeting presented descriptions of their groups responsibilities and duties. Typical information gather included the follow: • Number of staff in your representative group • Frequency of an individual activity • The number of locations where that activity occurs • Types of materials or equipment used to perform each activity • Type and amount of waste reclaimed, produced, or managed by each activity In some cases follow-up was performed to gather more detail relevant to activities that had a high potential to effect the environment. Compile the List of Activities The activities were compiled into a worksheet organized by interview sessions. Each activity was assigned a value for incident and coverage, that is, the frequency, duration, and the number of locations where the activity occurs. Analyze Potential Effects of Activities After all the activities were compiled, CH2M HILL assigned values to the potential effects of each of the identified activities using professional judgement according to a systematic rating system as defined in the attached Environmental Review Worksheet. The result was a score for the potential effect of that activity on the. environment. Each activity was assessed individually against the potential effect categories to obtain an overall effect score. The potential environmental effect categories were consumption of natural resources, waste products produced, and enyironment/habitat (wildlife) alterations. 6 PRELIMINARY REVIEW DRAFT (1/23/2001). MAY CONTAIN INACCURACIES. DO NOT CITE."