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• FORUM 6: Decisionmaking by one Federal operating agency (e.g. Corpw or 

 Redantation) + a complete public involvement program. 



• FORUM 7: Decisionmaking by another Federal agency (e.g. NMFS) + a 

 complete public involvement program. 



A more detailed description of these alternatives was provided in Chapter 3. 



The anticipated institutional impacts of these alternatives is provided below. These 

 impacts are also summarized in Tables 4 and 5 at the end of this section. 



5.2.1 Criterion: Consolidates Decisionmaking 



This criterion has to do with the number of points at which people can influence a 

 decision. The goal (with this criterion) is to consolidate all the various decisionmaking 

 processes, providing all the parties with just "one bite" at each decision. 



FORUM 5 (Decisionmaking by a new entity), FORUM 6 (Decisionmaking by one of the 

 existing operating agencies); and FORUM 7 (Dedsioiunaking by another Federal 

 agency), all would consolidate dedsionmeiking in the hands of a single agency. Thus, 

 all three alternatives would result in consolidation, and are considered equal in this 

 respect FORUM 4 (Decisionmaking by a Federal Consultation Forum (five Federal 

 agencies) represents a consolidation over the existing situation because there would be 

 only one decisiomnaking process, albeit five decision makers. 



FORUM 1 (Enhanced public involvement program) presents no change from the 

 existing condition. FORUM 2 (Recommendation by an existing entity) and FORUM 3 



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