What does BA stand for?

Daniel Beckman, professor of biology, received a grant of $19,382 to help fund his project, City of Springfield Biological Assessment of Urban Streams V.

The Fish and Wildlife Service is reviewing biological assessments of the project, and expects to issue at least a draft opinion this summer.

How much more precise we could be if we had available biological assessments to diagnose learning difficulties or excellences.

National Marine Fisheries Service spokeswoman Janet Spears wrote in an e-mail that the corps had submitted a biological assessment in 2000 and that the agencies have been consulting since then.

245-262, In Biological Assessment and Criteria: Tools for Water Resource Planning and Decision Making.

252) In some cases, FWS and NMFS may determine that additional information about onsite species or critical habitat is needed and advise the action agency to conduct a biological assessment (BA) to obtain this information.

According to Service and action-agency officials, this can lead the Services to make multiple requests for information from the action agencies about an activity until the Services are confident that a biological assessment adequately addresses the effects of the proposed activity on the species.

233) EPA's conclusion results from the fact that other types of criteria, such as numeric criteria for individual pollutants and even whole effluent toxicity criteria, are designed to identify (and prevent) discrete impacts from particular causes, while biological assessment methods measure the overall health of the resident biological community in response to all sources of impairment combined.