Significant impact definition

Significant impact means that the proposal is likely to have a noticeable effect on specific section(s) of the community greater than on the general community at large.
Significant impact means an additional ambient air quality concentration equal to or greater than the significant impact level. For sources of VOC or NOx, a source has a significant impact if it is located within the ozone impact distance defined in OAR 340 division 224.
Significant impact means any activity, including, but not limited to, the following activities which may have a major effect:

Examples of Significant impact in a sentence

  • Consultant’s team assumes the EA shall conclude that a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) is appropriate for the Project.


More Definitions of Significant impact

Significant impact means an impact that by its magnitude, duration, intensity or probability of occurrence may have a notable effect on one or more aspects of the environment;
Significant impact means an increase in the ambient air concentration for a particular pollutant as follows:
Significant impact means an increase in ambient air concentration, resulting from emission increases at a new or modified stationary source, equal to or greater than any of the levels listed in Tables 20.1 - 12 and 20.1 - 13.
Significant impact means an impact that may have a notable effect on one or more aspects of the environment or may result in non-compliance with accepted environmental quality standards, thresholds or targets and is determined through rating the positive and negative effects of an impact on the environment based on criteria such as duration, magnitude, intensity and probability of occurrence;
Significant impact means termination of employment; major changes in the composition, operation or size of the employer’s workforce or in the skills required; the elimination or diminution of job opportunities, promotion opportunities or job tenure; the alteration of hours of work, the need for retraining or transfer of officers to other work or locations and the restricting of jobs, provided that where the Agreement makes provision for alteration of any of the matters referred to herein an alteration shall be deemed not to have significant impact;
Significant impact means that the client’s impairment diminishes the client’s health, safety, and/or welfare and intervention is necessary to improve overall safety.
Significant impact means the following significant levels would be exceeded in the portion of the designated nonattainment area where the ambient air quality standards are actually violated.