Wis. Admin. Code Department of Corrections DOC 335.04

Current through November 25, 2024

Section DOC 335.04 - Definitions

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.

Wis. Admin. Code Department of Corrections DOC 335.04

Cr. Register, March, 1992, No. 435, eff. 4-1-92.