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Capability: Public Policy Impact Assessment

The United States Department of the Interior was designated by the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands Act of 1953 to carry out the majority of the Act’s provisions for administering the mineral leasing and development of offshore areas of the United States under federal jurisdiction.

Within the Department, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has the responsibility to meet requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) as well as other legislation and regulations dealing with the effects of offshore development. In Alaska, unique cultural differences and climatic conditions create a need for developing additional socioeconomic and environmental infomnation to improve OCS decision making at all governmental levels. In fulfillment of its federal responsibilities and with an awareness of these additional information needs, the BLM has inieiated several investigative programs, one of which is the Alaska OCS Socioeconomic Studies Program (SESP).


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Projects

  1. Select Studies in Offshore in Oil and Gas Development
  2. Hawaii Handline Project 2009
  3. IAI Social Science Research in the U.S. Virgin Islands
  4. Socioeconomic Impact Assessment in a Complex Economic Environment
  5. Social Assessment Kootenai National Forest
  6. Fishing, Seafood, and Community Research in the Main Hawaiian Islands: A Case Study of Hanalei Bay, Kaua‘i
  7. Sociocultural / Socioeconomic Organization of Bristol Bay
  8. Technical support of Title 17, California Code Of Regulations
  9. Analysis of Title 17, California Code Of Regulations
  10. Solar Electricity System for Rosa Parks Elementary School
  11. Calbug: Database Using Arthropods to Examine the Impact of Climate Change and Habitat Modification
  12. China-California: Environmental Health Training Program
  13. Global Climate Change and Public Health: Planning a Regional China GEOHEALTH Hub
  14. Insect Diversity and Niche Specialization in Giant Sequoias
  15. Systematics of Window Flies
  16. Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids
  17. Reproductive Effects of Disinfection By-products in Drinking Water
  18. Perchlorate and Thyroid Hormones in Pregnancy and Infants in Southern California
  19. HIA Program Development
  20. Placer County Biomass Energy Facility
  21. San Francisco Bay Seafood Consumption Study
  22. Develop Mid-trimester Screening Algorithms for Early Onset Preeclampsia
  23. Phytoestrogen and Time to Pregnancy
  24. Tobacco Exposure in Pregnant Women in Minority Populations
  25. Reduce Exposure to Unhealthy Air in the Imperial Valley, California near the U.S.-Mexico Border
  26. Neuro-Developmental Disabilities Screening and Assessment in Uganda
  27. Genome-Wide Association Study of Childhood Leukemia by Hispanic Status
  28. Characterization of CFTR Mutations Among Non-White CF Patients
  29. Building Capacity for Health Impact Assessment at State and Territorial Health Agencies
  30. Perinatal Exposure to Airborne Pollutants and Associations with Autism Phenotype
  31. Designing a Next Generation Science Standards Ready Air Quality Science High School Curriculum (Phase I and II)
  32. Social and Climate Change Migration Policy: Government of Tuvalu (South Pacific)
  33. Tobacco and cannabis exposure during pregnancy in six race/ethnic subgroups in California
  34. Studying Mothers and their Children at Risk from In Utero Exposure to Grandmaternal Smoking
  35. Public Health Effects of Increased Prescribe Burns for Wildlife Management
  36. East Bay Diesel Exposures Project (EBDEP)
  37. Expanding California Biomonitoring Database through Statewide Surveillance and Targeted Population Studies
  38. California Region Exposure Study 3 (CARE-3)
  39. California Region Exposure Study 2 (CARE-2)
  40. California Region Exposure Study I (CARE-LA)
  41. California's Strategic Plan Implementation Grants for Asthma
  42. Environmental Health Symposium for Promotores and Community Health Workers
  43. Palos Verdes Shelf Fish Contamination Project
  44. San Francisco Bay Fish Project
  45. Improve Low Rates of Childhood Lead Screening Amongst Health Care Providers
  46. Effectiveness of a Large Prenatal Tobacco Reduction Program
  47. California's Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
  48. Collection of Dried Blood Spots from Children for the Examination of CMV
  49. PBDE/Breast Milk Monitoring
  50. Early Childhood Mortality Study

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