Practice Test Geeks(CEP) Certified Environmental Planner Practice Test
← All CEP Flashcard Decks

Environmental Impact Analysis & Planning Flashcards

7 cards from real CEP practice questions. Tap to flip, then mark Knew It or Still Learning — missed cards come back until you master them.

Read the first 7 Environmental Impact Analysis & Planning flashcards as text

  1. Under NEPA, which document is prepared when the significance of a proposed federal action's environmental impacts is uncertain?

    Answer: Environmental Assessment (EA)

    An EA is a concise analysis used to determine whether an EIS is needed when significance is unclear.

  2. The concept of 'indirect effects' in an EIS refers to impacts that are:

    Answer: Caused by the action and occur later in time or farther in distance but are still foreseeable

    Indirect effects are caused by the action but are spatially or temporally removed yet still reasonably foreseeable.

  3. Which scoping technique in EIS preparation specifically solicits input from federal, state, and local agencies as well as the public to identify key issues?

    Answer: Public scoping meetings

    Public scoping meetings are the formal NEPA mechanism to gather interagency and public input on what issues the EIS should address.

  4. A project's environmental footprint is evaluated against a 'baseline' that represents:

    Answer: Existing environmental conditions without the proposed action

    The baseline (affected environment) describes current conditions against which project impacts are measured.

  5. Which analytical method is commonly used in EIA to assess cumulative impacts across multiple projects?

    Answer: Geographic Information System (GIS) overlay analysis

    GIS overlay analysis allows planners to spatially combine impacts from multiple projects to identify cumulative effects across a landscape.

  6. Under CEQ regulations, a 'tiered' EIS approach allows agencies to:

    Answer: Incorporate analyses from broad programmatic EISs into site-specific EISs without unnecessary repetition

    Tiering allows site-specific EISs to reference and build on programmatic analyses, avoiding redundancy.

  7. Which mitigation measure type involves modifying the project to avoid an adverse impact entirely?

    Answer: Avoidance

    Avoidance is the preferred and highest-ranking mitigation type in the mitigation hierarchy, eliminating impacts rather than reducing or offsetting them.