Report of environmental impact assessment

A report of an environmental impact assessment shall include the following– (a) Cover Page. A single page listing the title of the proposed project and its location; the name, address, and telephone number of a contact person, a designation of the report as draft or final; (b) Summary. A summary of the proposed project, preferably not exceeding 15 pages in length, accurately and adequately describing the contents of the EIA report. The summary Environmental Protection 17 should highlight the conclusions, areas of controversy and issues remaining to be resolved; (c) Table of Contents. A list and page number index of the chapters, sections and subsections in the EIA report, including a list of tables and a list of figures and appendices; (d) Policy, Legal and administrative Framework. Any policy, legal or administrative issues that may have an impact on the proposed development; (e) A description of the development proposed, comprising information about the site, the design and size and scale of the development, and its immediate surroundings; (f) A description of the environment (local and regional); (g) Significant Environmental Impacts. The data necessary to identify and assess the main effects which the proposed development is likely to have on the environment; (h) A description of the likely significant effects, direct and indirect, on the environment of the development, explained by reference to its possible impact on–– (i) human beings; (ii) flora; (iii) fauna; (iv) soil; 18 Environmental Protection (v) water; (vi) air; (vii) climate; (viii) material assets, including the natural heritage and landscape; (ix) natural resources; (x) the ecological balance; (xi) the Outstanding Universal Values ascribed under the World Heritage Site Designation to the area under development; and (xii) any other environmental factors which need to be taken into account. (i) A presentation of all reasonable alternatives in comparative form, exploring each alternative, including the no–action alternative, and the reason why certain alternatives were recommended or eliminated. The object is to identify the least environmentally damaging alternative that satisfies the basic purpose and the need for the proposed action; (j) Environmental consequences of the project as proposed, and the alternatives, identifying any adverse effects that cannot be avoided if the action is implemented, all mitigation measures to be employed to reduce adverse effects, the relationship between short–term uses of the environment and the enhancement of longterm productivity, and any irretrievable or irreversible commitments of resources that Environmental Protection 19 would occur if the action were implemented as proposed; (k) A mitigation plan; (l) A monitoring plan; (m) Inter–agency and public/non–governmental organisations involvement; (n) on or consultations (if any); (o) A summary in non–technical terms of the language specified above; (p) A list, accompanied by a summary of the resume, of all those persons that participated in the development of the environmental impact assessment report.