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Cumulative and Secondary Impacts <br />Secondary effects <br />• <br />Impacts "caused by an action and are later in time or farther removed in distance <br />– <br />but are still reasonably foreseeable" (40 CFR 1508.8) <br />Generally, induced by the initial action <br />– <br />Include changes in land use, water quality, social conditions, economic vitality and <br />– <br />population density <br />Cumulative effects <br />• <br />Impacts which result from incremental consequences of an action when added to <br />– <br />other past and reasonably foreseeable future-actions (40 CFR 1508.7) <br />Less defined than secondary effects <br />– <br />Cumulative effects of an action may be undetectable when viewed in the individual <br />– <br />context of direct and even secondary impacts, but nonetheless can add to other <br />disturbances and eventually lead to a measurable environmental change <br />• <br />Review other analyses conducted <br />• <br />Consult with appropriate agencies and organizations <br />• <br />Consider public and agency input <br />• <br />Determine secondary and cumulative impacts <br />6 <br />