Mandate

Category

Derived Data Layers

UASL Source Layers

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as Amended

Geology

Provinces

Bedrock formations

Stability or instability

Geology

Historic Earthquakes

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as Amended

Topography

Elevation

Slope

Aspect

DLG Hypsography

DRGs

DEMs

The Farmland Protection Policy Act (FPPA) of 1981

Departmental Regulation 9500-3, Land Use Policy (revised March 1983)

Departmental Regulation 9500-3 offers additional impact restrictions for projects funded by USDA Rural Development.

Soils

Prime farmlands, Hydric soils, LULC, Annual land use change, Potential farmed wetlands, Distribution from the 1997 Agricultural Census for various crops, permeability, drainage, crop suitability

Metrics: Total acreage

% project area

SSURGO

DOQQs

State LULC*

Mississippi Alluvial Valley LULC*

Landsat 7 ETM+*

Clean Water Act 1977 Section 308-309, 401-404, 502

National Water Regulations   40 CFR part 141- 149

Rivers and Harbors Act 1899 Section 10 USACE

Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act 1996

Clean Water Act 1987 Section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Program

Ground Water Resources

Location and depths of existing wells

Frequently flooded farmlands

Point sources of contamination, water usage, pesticide application, aquaculture

Metric: Count,

Location

Source Water Assessment Project Data aboveground storage tanks, aerial applicators, airports, AM/FM Radio Antennas, aquifers, armories, boat ramps, bridges, businesses, campgrounds, canals and ditches, cemeteries, chemical storage (MSDS), chicken houses, closed landfills, compost, dairy, domestic water wells, EPA sites (RCRA,CERCLIS,Superfund,etc.), factories, fairgrounds and speedways, FCC Regulated Comm. Towers, Fertilizer Use per County, fire engine houses, fish hatcheries, GNIS

grain elevators, highway garages, hospitals, illegal dumps, injection wells, leaking underground , storage tanks, mines, nurseries, oil and gas pumpstations, oil and gas tanks, open landfills, pesticide storage, Pesticide Use per County, pipelines, power plants and substations, prisons, public water system intakes, quarries, sawmills, schools, trailer parks, underground storage tanks, USGS Water Wells Database, water tanks, State LULC*

Landsat 7 ETM+*

Clean Water Act 1987 Sec 319 Nonpoint Source Mgmt. Prog.

Clean Water Act 1977 Section 308-309, 401-404, 502

National Water Regulations   40 CFR part 141- 149

Rivers and Harbors Act 1899 Section 10 USACE

Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act 1996

Surface Water Resources

Drainage basins and subbasins, water bodies and watercourses, regulatory classification of water bodies, monitoring stations, water quality data, identification of existing permitted discharges to surface waters

Metric: Total miles, square miles/acreage,  % project area

USGS DLG

Source Water Assessment Project Data (see above)

Source Water Assessment watersheds

National Hydro Dataset

Landsat 7 ETM+*

State LULC*

AFGC & NRCS Riparian Priority Area, Wetland Priority Area, Prairie Priority Area, Early Successional Plant Communities and Native Upland Communities Priority Areas, Cave Ecosystem Priority Area.

Botanical and Zoological Terrestrial Communities

Spatial arrangement of vegetative community types, vegetative species-abundance listings, wildlife species-abundance listings, records of threatened and endangered plant and animal species, diversity, patchiness

Metric: Total acreage, % project area

GAP Vertebrate Species*

GAP Forest, Agriculture, Urban Intensity, Water*

GAP Tasseled Cap*

GAP TM432*

Landsat 7 ETM+*

State LULC*

Endangered Species Act of 1973

50 CFR Parts 17.11 and 17.12

Arkansas Threatened and Endangered Species

As a matter of policy, the USFWS evaluates and regulates infrastructure that directly crosses NWRs. If a proposed project requires an easement or right-of-way across a NWR, a compatibility determination may be required by the USFWS

Threatened and Endangered Species and Habitats

Species distribution

Habitat distribution

National Wildlife Refuges

Metric: Total acreage, % project area

GAP Vertebrates*

GAP Forest, Agriculture, Urban Intensity, Water*

GAP Tasseled Cap*

GAP TM432*

Landsat 7 ETM+*

National Wildlife Refuges (NWR)

National Parks

State Parks

National Forests

State Forests

GAP Land Ownership

GAP Management

Wildlife mortality rates

Clean Water Act Section 404

Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act

North American Wetlands Conservation Act (103 Stat. 1968; 16 U.S.C. 4401-4412) -- Public Law 101-233

Wetlands

Wetland boundaries

Corridor ranking

Cost weights

Potential farmed wetlands

Wetland prioritization

Wetland inventory (a combination of hydric soils data, hydrophytic vegetation , and potential farmed wetlands)

Metric: Total acreage, % project area

Delta wetlands

GAP Forest, Agriculture, Urban Intensity, Water*

National Wetlands Inventory

Landsat 7 ETM+*

National Flood Insurance Act of 1968

Executive Order 11988 — Protection of Floodplains

National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994

Floodplains

Floodplain boundaries

Metric: Total acreage, % project area

FEMA Q3 Flood Maps

Landsat 7 ETM+*

North American Wetlands Conservation Act (103 Stat. 1968; 16 U.S.C. 4401-4412) -- Public Law 101-233

Land Use

Existing patterns of land use in region, regional planning future use, zoning

Metric

Total acreage, % project area

GAP Forest, Agriculture, Urban Intensity, Water*

GAP Tasseled Cap*

GAP TM432*

GAP Land Ownership

Landsat 7 ETM+*

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as Amended

Demography

Distribution of censused or estimated population, tables of recent trends and projections for future population.

Census Data

Census Block/Tracts

City Pop (ED) Education

Ark. Legislative Districts

Rural residences

School Districts (TIGER)

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as Amended

Socioeconomic

Distribution maps of economic and social structure of communities, tax rate tables, characteristic types of development

Business climate

Industrial Base

Labor Force

Life quality

Urban Areas

(all Economic Development layers)

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as Amended

Infrastructure Services

Location/density of human services; police and fire, hospitals, schools, utilities.

Source Water Assessment Project (see above)

MAIN

Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century (TEA-21)

Transportation

Layout and function of existing roadways, railways, airports, existing and project capacities and demands.

Metric: Total mileage by road type, rail

Various AHTD layers

Airports, Amtrack, Interstates, Rail, Ports, Terminals, Intermodal, pipelines, power plants, substations

BTS data layers

Landsat 7 ETM+*

Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA)

Cultural Resources

Locations and characterization of identified cultural resources (archeological, historical, cultural, landmark). Boundaries of archeological surveys.

Metric: Site/landmark density, Site/landmark location

AMASDA

Landmarks

SHPO

Landsat 7 ETM+*

Ikonos*

Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (NHPA)

Cultural Resource Probability Zones

Potential for unidentified resources to be present in project area

*Model to be developed

Historic PPL (GNIS)

AMASDA

MODIS*

Landsat 7 ETM+*

Ikonos*

ASTER*