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E. Environmental Impact Assessment Content
Materials of environmental impact assessment should include a non-technical summary to reflect the most important results and conclusions of the EIA.
The content of the environmental impact assessment materials is established by the environmental impact assessment procedure. It depends on the type of planned economic and other activity, and the project rationale, which is the object of the environmental review. The degree of completeness and specification of the environmental impact assessment depend upon the scale and type of the planned economic and other activity as well as the specific features of the presumed location of its realization.
A model of the content of the environmental impact assessment materials of the planned economic and other activity in investment projection is given in the Annex to the Provisions.
In the event that the documentation on the planned economic and other activity can be referred to as restricted access information, the initiator prepares materials on the environmental impact assessment in conformity with principle of information openness.
Model Content of Environmental Impact Assessment Materials of the Planned Economic Activity in Investment Projection
The contents of environmental impact assessment materials of the planned economic and other activity for investment projects should include at a minimum the submission of the following environmental information:
1. General information.
1.1 Initiator of the project with indication of the official name of organization (legal entity, natural person), postal address, phone number, fax number.
1.2 Name of the investment project and its proposed location.
1.3 Family name, phone number of the contact person.
1.4 Description of the submitted documentation: application (Notification of Intent), investment rationale, feasibility study (project), working draft (the part to be approved).
2. Explanatory note to the project rationale.
3. Objectives of and need for the planned economic and other activity.
4. Description of alternatives of the planned economic and other activity (different location of the object, technologies and other alternatives within the authority of the project initiator), including the suggested and “zero variant” (cancellation of the project).
5. Prediction of possible environmental effects of the planned economic and other activity for all the alternatives taken separately.
6. Description of the environment, which can be affected as a result of the realization of the planned economic and other activity (including alternatives).
7. Environmental impact assessment of the planned economic and other activity (including alternatives with a comparative analysis) and an estimate of the reliability of the predicted implications of the planned investment activity.
8. Description of mitigation to prevent, reduce or eliminate possible significant adverse effects of the planned economic and other activity.
9. Assessment of the uncertainty in the identification of possible environmental effects of the planned economic and other activity.
10. Brief description of the project evaluation monitoring programmes.
11. Rationale for the selection of the suggested variant of the planned economic and other activity from among all of the alternatives considered.
12. Materials of public hearings, which were undertaken at the stage of investigation and preparation of materials on environmental impact assessment of the planned economic and other activity, indicating:
12.1. Way in which the general public may be informed of the place, time and form of the public hearings.
12.2. List of participants of public hearings with indication of family names, second names, organizations (in the case that they represented organizations), as well as addresses and phone numbers of these organizations and individuals – participants of discussion.
12.3. The scope of issues, which were considered in the course of discussion, thesis of proposals in the event that they are submitted by the discussion participants, minutes of public hearings (in the case that they were undertaken).
12.4. All comments and proposals, which were introduced in the course of the public hearings with an indication of the names of the speakers and including possible disagreements between the general public, local self-government bodies and project initiator.
12.5. Conclusions based on the results of public hearings in relation to the environmental aspects of the planned economic and other activity.
12.6. Summary of comments and proposals made by the public with an indication which of these proposals and comments were taken into consideration by the project initiator and in what form as well as which of them were rejected and the grounds for the rejection.
12.7. Mailing lists of the relevant information, addressed to the public at all stages of the environmental impact assessment.
13. Non-technical summary of the information with respect to the above.
