Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Corrections › Chapter DOC 335 - Environmental policy implementation › Section DOC 335.04 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Action" means any activity initiated or
			 otherwise undertaken by the department, including a proposal for legislation,
			 which may affect the quality of the environment of human beings.
(2) "Alternatives" means actions other than
			 the proposed action which may be reasonably available to achieve the same or
			 altered purpose of the proposed action, including the alternative of no
			 action.
(3) "DEIS" means draft
			 environmental impact statement.
(4)
			 "Department" means the department of corrections
(5) "Environmental assessment" or "EA" means
			 a concise public document prepared by or at the direction of the department
			 which provides sufficient evidence and analysis concerning a proposed type II
			 action to enable the department to determine whether to prepare an
			 environmental impact statement or issue a finding of no significant impact, and
			 it includes the study, development and description of alternatives.
(6) "Environmental impact statement" or "EIS"
			 means a detailed, written analytical report prepared by or at the direction of
			 the department, which describes the anticipated effects on the environment of a
			 proposed major action. An "EIS" is meant to adequately inform department
			 decisionmakers and the public about the environmental consequences of an action
			 in a way that will assist and guide decisionmaking.
(7) "FEIS" means final environmental impact
			 statement.
(8) "Finding of no
			 significant impact" means a conclusion of an environmental assessment that the
			 proposed action is not a major action which will significantly affect the
			 quality of the human environment and that preparation of an EIS is therefore
			 not required.
(9) "Human
			 environment" or "environment of human beings" means the natural and physical
			 surroundings of people and their relationship with those surroundings. It
			 includes the economic and social aspects of the surroundings of people only
			 when these are inter-related with the natural and physical aspects of those
			 surroundings.
(10) "Major action"
			 means an action significantly affecting the quality of the human
			 environment.
(11) "Program" means a
			 broad area of adult corrections, such as probation and parole and adult
			 institutions.
(12) "Resource" means
			 water, air, land, plants, animals, energy, historic properties, vistas,
			 wilderness, or that tranquillity which is affected by noise.
(13) "Scoping" means a process conducted at
			 the outset of preparation of an EIS which involves asking for the views of
			 other governmental agencies and the interested public about what should be in
			 the EIS, the issues it should address, and the relatively more significant
			 issues that should be subjected to in-depth analysis.
(14) "Secretary" means the secretary of the
			 Wisconsin department of corrections.
(15) "Significantly affecting" means, in
			 reference to actions, having considerable and important impacts on the quality
			 of the environment, either in terms of the breadth of impact or the severity of
			 impact.
(16) "WEPA" means the
			 Wisconsin environmental policy act, s.
			 1.11,
			 Stats.