alert - warning

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Adverse Impact/Adverse Effect

In general terms related to EHP laws, a negative impact (e.g., loss, destruction, modification) to an environmental or historic resource that can have a direct, indirect or cumulative effect on that resource. Impacts or effects may be short-term or long-term in duration.