mandates all proponents to prepare an ___ for every action, project or undertaking w/ significantly affect the quality of environment
Environmental Impact Statement —- P.D 1151 - Philippines Environmental Policy of 1977
requires all proponents to secure an ___ before undertaking or operating project that are classified as environmentally critical project (ECP) or envi critical areas (ECA)
Environmental Compliance Certificate
Key operating principles in the implementation of Philippine EIS system
- Assessing the direct and indirect impacts of project (biophysical and human envi)
- incorporating envi considerations in planning projects
- process involves predicting and evaluating the likely impacts of a project during construction, commissioning, operation, and abandonment
- design appropriate preventive, mitigating enhancement measures addressing these consequences to protect envi community;s welfare
Environmental Impact Assessment
EIA as project planning tool
- enhance planning & guide decision making
- context of a requirement to integrate envi concerns in planning
- adverse envi impacts of proposed actions
- document prepared and submitted by the project/ EIA consultant serves as an application for ECC
- comprehensive study of significant impacts of proj on environment
- Environmental Management Plan/Program (fund)
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
document issued by DENR after a positive review of ECC application
Envi Compliance Certificate
certification by the EMB that project is not covered by the EIS system and not required to secure ECC
Cert of Non-Coverage
ECC Validity
entire project lifetime
provided:
- no project expansion
- no change in tech
- no change in loc
- implemented within 5 yrs from date of issuance
Required documents for ECC
- EIS
- Initial Envi Examination (IEE)
- Programmatic Envi impact statement (PEIS)
- Programmatic envi performance report and management plan (PEPRMP)
- Envi perf report and management plan (EPRMP)
EIA Process
- Project Conceptualization Improvement
- Pre-feasibility
- Feasibility
- Detailed Engineering & Design
- Proj Construction & Dev’t
- Operations and Maintenance
Stages of Phil EIA process
- Screening
- Scoping
- EIA Study & report presentation
- EIA report review & eval
- Decision making
- Monitoring, validation, eval/audit
provide clearer and updated technical definition of ECA & description of act or undertakings projected significant impacts to envi and covered under PEISS
Revised Guidelines for coverage and standardized requirements (EMB MEMORANDUM CIRCULAR 005 JULY 2014)
Categories of projects/ undertaking under EIS system
Categories:
A - ECP w/ negative envi impacts
B - not ECP but have negative envi imapcts; located Envi Critical areas
C - directly enhance envi qual not falling A/B
D - unlikely to cause envi impact
Project not covered by EIS system
projects before 1982
Content of EIA report
- Project description
- Baseline Envi description
- Impact Assessment
- Envi Management Plan
Decision Documents
- ECC
- CNC
- Denial Letter
