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Staff Paper #24
TRAC 7/28/98
DECISION-MAKING CRITERIA ISSUES FOR DISCUSSION

Issues pertaining to decision-making criteria that are being presented for discussion by the TRAC Workgroup #2 on 7/27/98.

• What process should the Agency use in soliciting input in its selection of decision-making criteria?
  
• Should the criteria be weighted relative to each other (i.e., which criteria are most important and which are least important in the decision-making process)?
  
• Should certain criteria be used to identify OP/use combinations to be targeted for priority action by the agency? If yes, which ones?
  
• What type of process should be used for ranking and/or comparing OP uses based on the criteria (e.g., Qualitative--high/medium/low vs. Quantified rankings)?
  
• Is it appropriate to use risk related decision-making criteria in selecting among OP/use combinations, or does this constitute risk double-counting (after a risk-related criteria has been used to make initial decisions, should it be used for subsequent decisions)?
  

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