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agencies to determine whether additional assessment of the environmental impacts of 

 those decisions is required by NEPA. It is the SOR agency's intent, however, that the 

 SOR analysis will be broad enough in its consideration and assessment of operating 

 strategy alternatives to enable future strategy refinements without major environmental 

 reviews. 



5.2 INSTITUTIONAL CRITERIA 



This section provides a summary of the differences between the alternatives based on 

 the institutional criteria discussed in Chapter 4. The alternatives evaluated include: 



» FORUM 1: Decisionmaking by the SOR lead agencies + a complete public 

 involvement program. 



• FORUM 2: Decisionmaking by the SOR lead agencies + recommendation by 

 an existing regional entity. 



• FORUM 3: Decisionmaking by the SOR lead agencies + reconunendation by 

 a new entity. 



• FORUM 4: Decisionmaking by a Federal Consultation Forum (all Federal 

 agencies with jurisdiction) + a complete public involvement program. 



• FORUM 5: Decisionmaking by a New Entity + a complete public 

 involvement program. 



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