Environmental Engineering Reference
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TABLE 2.4
Framework Table of Contents for Environmental Impact Assessment Report
Introduction
Background
Project defi nition
Cooperation among jurisdictions
Objectives of the assessment
Project proponent
Study compiler
Description of Mining Project
Construction phase
Mine operation
Mine closure and post-closure activities
Institutional Setting
Legislative framework
Applicable regulations and standards
Company environmental and social policy
International agreements and conventions
Project Alternatives
Alternatives within the project
Zero-alternative (no project)
Public Involvement
Institutional cooperation
Project disclosure
Public consultation
Environmental Setting
Air
Water
Land
Fauna and fl ora
People
Analysis of Impacts
Natural resources
Human resources
Relocation and compensation
Direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts
Trans-boundary impacts
Impact signifi cance
Environmental Management Plan
Management system
Budgeting
Time line
Management efforts per signifi cant impact
Environmental Monitoring Plan
Monitoring efforts
Indicators
Location and time line
Reporting requirements
The EIA would be incomplete without presenting environmental mitigation and monitoring measures, together with fi nancial and
human resource requirements.
regulation promulgated by the US. Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) established
the target size for an EIS as 'normally not to exceed 150 pages in length and for propos-
als of unusual scope or complexity 300 pages' (40 CFR 1502.7). Regulators and companies
routinely fail to meet or even approach such page limits, probably driven by the hope that
'beei ng up' the EIS will deter potential opponents and litigants, or, in the event that deter-
rence fails, support the argument that 'it's in there somewhere'. This tends to result in
long, complicated, costly documents that are, in essence, EIAs with little or no public par-
ticipation, and that aren't particularly clear about which impacts are or are not signii cant.
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