Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

The Final Programmatic Oyster Environmental Impact Statement consists of 22 PDF documents: Executive Summary, Table of Contents, eight Sections (1 - 8), the Appendix Table of Contents, an Introduction to Volume 2 and ten Appendices (A - J).

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Executive Summary (75 kb)
Table of Contents (56 kb)
Section 1 Purpose and Need for Action (252 kb)
Section 2 Description of the Proposed Action and Alternatives (180 kb)
Section 3 Affected Environment (920 kb)
Section 4 Environmental Consequences (2.8 Mb)
Section 5 Public Outreach, Agency Coordination, and Consultation (208 kb)
Section 6 Refereneces (102 kb)
Section 7 List of Preparers (26 kb)
Section 8 Distribution List (50 kb)
Appendix Table of Contents (11 kb)
Introduction to Volume 2
Appendix A Oyster Demographic Model (14.6 Mb)
Appendix B Ecological Risk Assessment for Oyster Restoration Alternatives (3.4 Mb)
Appendix C Development of Assessment Scenarios for Aquaculture Alternateives (4 and 5) (280 kb)
Appendix D Economic Analysis (1.4 Mb)
Appendix E Evaluation of Cultural and Socioeconomic Effects of Oyster Restoration Strategies for Chesapeake Bay. (1.2 Mb)
Appendix F Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay Region (97 kb)
Appendix G Coordination Letters and Public Outreach (67 Mb)
Appendix H Chesapeake Bay Environmental Modeling Package (2.7 Mb)
Appendix I Formal Response to Comments (2.3 Mb)
Appendix J Public Comments (87.5 Mb)