1.4 Organization of This Document

The remainder of this document is organized as follows:

• Section 2 presents background information on the rationale and criteria for EAs stipulated in the CAA and EO 12866, as well as the rationale and criteria put forth in a variety of statutes and EOs requiring various forms of "impact" analysis.
• Section 3 provides an overview of the regulatory development process both at the Agency level and for OAQPS/ISEG.
• Section 4 addresses the preparation of industry profiles, including their structure, connections between the industry profile and economic analysis, and listing of commonly used data sources.
• Section 5 presents the analytical framework and operational issues for estimating the social costs and direct economic impacts of the rule in an EIA.
• Section 6 addresses methodological issues for conducting various distributional impact analyses subject to administrative and statutory requirements.
• Section 7 presents the analytical framework and discussion of practical issues involved in estimating environmental benefits of a regulation.
• Section 8 discusses several key general methodological and policy issues, such as the establishment of a regulatory baseline, discounting procedures, and methods for addressing uncertainty.
• Section 9 recommends ways to communicate EA results so that they are transparent and understandable to decisionmakers.