Investigation of environmental impacts will focus on:

• Impacts to archaeological and special natural features;
• Impacts to habitat biodiversity;
• Impacts to fisheries;
• Impacts to threatened and endangered species.

A detailed environmental impact assessment will not be conducted for the LMPDS. As such, it is expected that many of the resources developed on this topic during the IJC Reference Study (1986-1993) and elsewhere in the literature, will need to be reviewed and synthesized for use in the LMPDS. This will also be supplemented by anecdotal and in-person interview data collected through discussions with county, municipal and other government agency personnel during the summers of 1997 and 1998, as well as through information collected in the Focus Group session in 1999.

This task will produce a memo that summarizes expected general environmental impacts under each water level scenario

It is anticipated that a mechanism for incorporation of environmental impact data to the Potential Damages model will also need to be developed over the course of FY2001.

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