Feasibility Study and PWP Stage

Good Practices of Proactive Planning of the EIA Mechanism during Project Feasibility Stage:

If an EIA is to be carried out, a project proponent is advised:

• To thoroughly understand the project and the issues in an EIA study brief;
  
• To seek early advice from EPD together with maintaining open, frank dialogue;
  
• To understand and anticipate both the adverse and beneficial impacts of a project at the start of an EIA;
  
• To get first-hand information on site conditions, environmental and physical constraints and update as appropriate;
• To find out stakeholders' concerns, rather than peripheral issues, and use an EIA as a tool to address them;
  
• To manage and lead EIA consultants and understand their assumptions; take ownership of the EIA process to facilitate project design and implementation;
  
• To set clear milestones in the EIA process including submission of working papers and draft reports;
  
• To steer agreement over parameters in quantitative assessment throughout the EIA process;
  
• To scrutinize input assumptions, e.g. construction sequence or plant inventory, and scenario to see that they are reasonable and practicable, but not underestimating nor overestimating;
• To build in flexibility in project implementation, a scenario approach can be set up in the study;
  
• To critically review recommendations of an EIA to see that they are practicable and effective measures, ready to be implemented by the project proponent.

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PWP stage

Upon completion of detailed design, Works Departments can seek funding from the Legislative Council. After funding approval, works Departments will take out projects for tendering and construction.