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Technical Memorandum on Environmental Impact Assessment Process

Annex 11

  • ANNEX 11: CONTENTS OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT (EIA) REPORT

    • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY IN ENGLISH AND CHINESE
      • Summary of main issues, findings, conclusions and recommendations
    • INTRODUCTION
      • Background of the project
      • Purpose of the EIA study
      • The approach
    • DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT
      • Key project requirements
      • Site location and site history
      • Nature, scope and benefits of the project
      • Size or scale, shape and design of the project
      • Project timetable and phasing of the project
      • Means by which the project will be implemented
      • Any related projects
      • Type, scope, scale, frequency and duration of the construction, operational or decommissioning (if relevant) activities
      • Background and history of the project, including considerations given to different options, and the project's different siting or alignment
      • Description of scenarios with or without the project
    • ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION, POLICIES, PLANS, STANDARDS AND CRITERIA
      • Applicable environmental ordinances and regulations
      • Applicable government environmental policies and plans
      • Applicable environmental standards and criteria
      • Other references
    • DESCRIPTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
      • Baseline environmental conditions
      • Environmental trends
    • DESCRIPTION OF ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES
      • Assessment methodologies, assumptions and criteria, including sample calculations and input and output files of a typical model run for all mathematical modelling
    • IDENTIFICATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
      • Potential environmental impacts including the types, characteristics and estimated quantities of emissions, discharges, wastes, potential risks, disturbances or displacement associated with the activities relating to the project during construction, operation and decommissioning phases
      • Description of resources or receivers which are vulnerable to change or environmental impacts
    • PREDICTION AND EVALUATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
      • Prediction of environmental impacts (including beneficial or adverse; direct or indirect; short term or long term; reversible or irreversible; transboundary; cumulative)
      • Evaluation of predicted environmental impacts against relevant environmental legislation, policies, plans, standards and criteria
    • MITIGATION OF ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
      • Measures to eliminate, reduce or remedy adverse environmental impacts
    • DEFINITION AND EVALUATION OF RESIDUAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
      • Definition and evaluation of net environmental impacts with mitigation measures in place
    • ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND AUDIT
      • Need for and scope of monitoring and audit
      • Environmental monitoring and audit requirements, if found to be necessary, and the related environmental monitoring and audit programme
    • CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

    • SCHEDULE OF RECOMMENDED MITIGATION MEASURES
      • A schedule of all mitigation measures recommended in the EIA report, listing out what the mitigation measures are, by whom, when, where and to what requirements, and including the key environmental monitoring and audit requirements
    • APPENDIX
      • Responses to comments received