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ensure accuracy. Public Participation in Environmental
Assessment and Decision Making We also offer advice for
implementing the principles. For reasons discussed in Chapter 8,
we do not consider it advisable to recommend specific techniques
as “best practices” for general use. Instead, we recommend a
best process for selecting such techniques and for monitoring
their effectiveness and adjusting them to achieve the desired
purposes. We remind the reader that there are many goals for
public participation processes and thus many criteria for what
constitutes a “good” or “effective” outcome and a “good” or
“effective” process. Goals include both those focused on the
quality of environmental assessments and decisions and those
focused on the relationships among the participants.
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