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Study the Amendment for Environmental Impact Assessment Act

Absrtact	The Foundation on Resources and Environmental Protection Service (FREPS) was entrusted by the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) of the Republic of China to study the amendment of Environmental Impact Assessment Act (EIAA). The study goal defined by EPA is to develop a simple and easy operating Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) system. The workscopes of FREPS study-team are as follows: (1) to collect the EIA laws and regulations in Japan, Mainland China, Korea, America and European Union; (2) to study the EIA developing trend of foreign countries mentioned above; (3) to consult opinions from related experts and groups about the existing problems of EIA execution in Taiwan; (4) to submit the suggestions about the amendment of EIAA and EIA system. From the results of this study, FREPS provided the following suggestions: The environmental assessment of government polices (Strategic Environmental Assessment, SEA) should be constructively executed to attain the goal of sustainable development and the top priority of environmental protection of this country. During the formulation of policy, plan or program or median and long term development which are upper ranks of strategies, all the alternatives and environmental preventing measures should be detail considered in order to mitigate and minimize the possible adverse impacts. The EIA procedure of the lower rank of project (development activity) then can be simplified and avoided reduplicated. The existing EIA procedure of two phases should be merged into only one phase to simplify the process. It is important to conduct the public consultation and public participation. The EIA professional review and decisions of EIA committee should be respected. The follow-up performance monitoring system should be fully carried out. To solidify the EIA data bank and to publicize the EIA system should be continually implemented. FREPS submitted three schemes of EIAA amendment for EPA making decision and preparing the match-up measures reference.
Keyword	Environmental Impact Assessment,Environmental Impact Assessment Act (ROC),Environmental Management

Absrtact

The Foundation on Resources and Environmental Protection Service (FREPS) was entrusted by the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) of the Republic of China to study the amendment of Environmental Impact Assessment Act (EIAA). The study goal defined by EPA is to develop a simple and easy operating Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) system. The workscopes of FREPS study-team are as follows: (1) to collect the EIA laws and regulations in Japan, Mainland China, Korea, America and European Union; (2) to study the EIA developing trend of foreign countries mentioned above; (3) to consult opinions from related experts and groups about the existing problems of EIA execution in Taiwan; (4) to submit the suggestions about the amendment of EIAA and EIA system. From the results of this study, FREPS provided the following suggestions: The environmental assessment of government polices (Strategic Environmental Assessment, SEA) should be constructively executed to attain the goal of sustainable development and the top priority of environmental protection of this country. During the formulation of policy, plan or program or median and long term development which are upper ranks of strategies, all the alternatives and environmental preventing measures should be detail considered in order to mitigate and minimize the possible adverse impacts. The EIA procedure of the lower rank of project (development activity) then can be simplified and avoided reduplicated. The existing EIA procedure of two phases should be merged into only one phase to simplify the process. It is important to conduct the public consultation and public participation. The EIA professional review and decisions of EIA committee should be respected. The follow-up performance monitoring system should be fully carried out. To solidify the EIA data bank and to publicize the EIA system should be continually implemented. FREPS submitted three schemes of EIAA amendment for EPA making decision and preparing the match-up measures reference.

Keyword

Environmental Impact Assessment,Environmental Impact Assessment Act (ROC),Environmental Management