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5050. 4 3/21/80 material, such as previous development and environmental actions which help to explain the present proposal. It may also include such items as bond actions, action by the community or citizen groups pertinent to the proposal, or any other unique factors associated with the project which do not properly belong in another section of the document. The Affected Environment section of the environmental assessment includes:. (1) A location map, vicinity map, and airport layout plan. (2) Existing and planned land uses and zoning in the affected airport vicinity, including affected residential areas, public parks, wildlife and waterfowl refuges, wetlands, floodplains, farmlands, coastal zones, recreation areas, and historic facilities and archeological sites. (3) Nearby schools and places of public assembly, hospitals, shopping areas, and adjacent political jurisdictions affected by the proposed development. (4) Population, industrial and commercial growth characteristics, and assumptions used to justify the project and determine secondary impacts only if these are relevant to the proposal. (5) Any contemplated future actions, including facility installations and procedural actions, which have not been included in the Alternatives section and which should be described to show their relationship to the proposal and to show the sponsor's intentions regarding their environmental assessment and development. (6) Other planned and developed activities in the affected area (e.g., highways and other transportation projects, housing development and relocation, etc.) which are interrelated to the proposal and/or which would produce cumulative impacts. e. Environmental Consequences - Specific Impact Categories. A brief examination of each of the applicable potential impact areas below shall be done and documented to determine if the impact may be significant. During the environmental assessment process, required specific consultation such as historic and cultural resource consultation with the State Historic Preservation Officer shall be accomplished. For the proposed action and reasonable alternatives, including the no action alternative, each of the following applicable impact categories shall be systematically examined. (1) Noise. (a) No noise analysis is needed for proposals involving utility or basic transport type airports whose forecast operations in the period covered by the environmental assessment do not exceed 90,000 annual adjusted propeller operations or 700 annual adjusted jet operations ("adjusted" as defined in Report No. FAA-AS-75-1, Developing Noise Exposure Contours for General Aviation Airports). These numbers of propeller aircraft operations Page 28 Chap 5 Par. 47