Setting Priorities|Comparative Risk Report

SETTING PRIORITIES|Comparative Risk Report

Project Name: North Dakota Comparative Environmental Issues Project

    Ranking Results:

Public Advisory Committee's Rankings (Draft)
Health Risk Committee's Rankings
Ecosystem Risk Committee's Rankings
Quality of Life Risk Committee's Rankings

    Project Description:

Geographical Coverage

Project Purpose

Ranking Process

Participants in the Ranking Process

Project Reference

Contact Information

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Ranking Results

Public Advisory Committee's Rankings (Draft)
	High	Online Information About This Issue
	Good quality and adequate quantity of drinking water	general	area specific
	Groundwater pollution	general	area specific
	Indoor air pollution (including cigarette smoking) and radon	general	area specific
	Surface water pollution (includes streams, rivers and lakes; and point and non-point sources)	general	area specific
	Medium High
	Degradation and/or depletion of plant and animal resources	general	area specific
	Generation and management of municipal solid waste (also includes industrial, mining and medical waste)	general	area specific
	Loss of agricultural land (also includes erosion)	general
	Urban and rural chemical management	general	area specific
	Medium
	Air pollution	general	area specific
	Generation and management of hazardous waste	general	area specific
	Maintaining federal and state parks

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Health Risk Committee's Rankings
	1.	Indoor air pollution (including cigarette smoking) and radon	general	area specific
	2.	Urban and rural chemical management	general	area specific
	3.	Good quality and adequate quantity of drinking water	general	area specific
	4.	Groundwater pollution	general	area specific
	5.	Surface water pollution (includes streams, rivers and lakes; and point and non-point sources)	general	area specific
	6.	Generation and management of municipal solid waste (also includes industrial, mining and medical waste)	general	area specific
	7.	Generation and management of hazardous waste	general	area specific
	8.	Air pollution	general	area specific
	9.	Degradation and/or depletion of plant and animal resources	general	area specific
	10.	Loss of agricultural land (also includes erosion)	general
	11.	Maintaining federal and state parks

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Ecosystem Risk Committee's Rankings
	1.	Surface water pollution (includes streams, rivers and lakes; and point and non-point sources)	general	area specific
	2.	Loss of agricultural land (also includes erosion)	general
	3.	Urban and rural chemical management	general	area specific
	4.	Groundwater pollution	general	area specific
	5.	Degradation and/or depletion of plant and animal resources	general	area specific
	6.	Good quality and adequate quantity of drinking water	general	area specific
	7.	Indoor air pollution (including cigarette smoking) and radon	general	area specific
	8.	Maintaining federal and state parks
	9.	Generation and management of municipal solid waste (also includes industrial, mining and medical waste)	general	area specific
	10.	Generation and management of hazardous waste	general	area specific
	11.	Air pollution	general	area specific

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Quality of Life Risk Committee's Rankings
	1.	Good quality and adequate quantity of drinking water	general	area specific
	2.	Groundwater pollution	general	area specific
	3.	Generation and management of municipal solid waste (also includes industrial, mining and medical waste)	general	area specific
	4.	Surface water pollution (includes streams, rivers and lakes; and point and non-point sources)	general	area specific
	5.	Generation and management of hazardous waste	general	area specific
	6.	Loss of agricultural land (also includes erosion)	general
	7.	Degradation and/or depletion of plant and animal resources	general	area specific
	8.	Indoor air pollution (including cigarette smoking) and radon	general	area specific
	9.	Urban and rural chemical management	general	area specific
	10.	Air pollution	general	area specific
	10.	Maintaining federal and state parks

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Project Description

	Geographical Coverage: State of North Dakota
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	Project Purpose: 1) Identify environmental issues that are of concern and risk to North Dakotans, 2) Compare and prioritize those issues of concern, 3) Develop a strategy to address the issues, and 4) Better target North Dakota's resources toward cost-effective environmental activities that can best reduce risks and impacts.
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	Ranking Process: The Human/Public Health, Ecosystem Risk, and Quality of Life Committees created separate rankings of the selected environmental issues of concern. Based upon these rankings and associated recommendations, the Public Advisory Committee constructed a draft integrated ranking, which they never finalized.
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	Participants in the Ranking Process: This information is not currently available to Scorecard.
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	Reference: North Dakota Comparative Environmental Issues Project. North Dakota Comparative Environmental Issues Final Report. North Dakota Department of Health. October 1996.
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	Contact Information: Teri Lunde Environmental Health Section North Dakota Department of Health 1200 Missouri Avenue P.O. Box 5520 Bismarck, ND 58506-5520 phone: (701) 221-5150 fax: (701) 221-5200 http://www.health.state.nd.us/ndhd/environ/index.htm
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