Subject(s): Environmental impact analysis in India -- national environmental policy act and its implementation : Council on environmental quality guidelines, EIA process, US environmental protection agency, State environmental policy acts -- Planning and management of impact studies : fiscal control -- Simple methods for impact identification-matrices, networks and check-list : interaction-matrix methodologies -- Description of environmental setting (affected environment) -- Environmental indices and indicators for describing the affected environment : environmental-Media Index, Air quality, Water quality, Noise, Ecological sensitivity and diversity, Archaeological resources, Visual quality, Quality of life, Development of Indices -- Prediction ans assessment of impact on the air environment : Key federal legislation and regulation, Air pollution types and methods to identify it , mass-balance approaches, Box-model approaches, Air-quality dispersion-modelling approaches -- Prediction and assessment of impact on the surface water environment : surface-water Hydrology, Surface-water quality parameters, Water quality standards, mathematical -mode ling approaches, Aquatic-ecosystem-modelling approaches -- Prediction and assessment of impact on the soil and groundwater environments -- Prediction and assessment of visual impact : Legislation related to aesthetic resources, US forest service's visual management system, Us army crops of engineers visual- resource assessment methodologies -- Prediction and assessment of impacts on the socio-economic environment : Education service impacts , Traffic and transportation-system impacts, Human health impacts -- Decision methods for evaluation of alternatives : Development of decision matrix -- Public participation in environmental decision making Advantage and disadvantage of public participation, Selection of public participation techniques -- Preparation of written documentation -- Environmental monitoring