Water Quality Management Plan for the Lake Tahoe Region

This section of the EIS identifies and assesses the potential cumulative impacts related to the Regional Plan Update alternatives. For purposes of this analysis, a cumulative impact is “the impact on the environment which results from the incremental impact of the action when added to other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future actions, regardless of what agency or person undertakes such other actions. Cumulative effects can result from individually minor, but collectively significant actions over a period of time” (CEQ NEPA Regulations, 40 CFR 1508.7). This section describes those cumulative impacts to which the Regional Plan Update alternatives would contribute, and whether that contribution would be considerable in the context of past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects.