Publik Participation In Decicion – Making On Siting (choosing A Site) For Harardouse Enterprises: A Practical Scheme.
PUBLIK PARTICIPATION IN DECICION – MAKING ON SITING (CHOOSING A SITE) FOR HARARDOUSE ENTERPRISES: A PRACTICAL SCHEME.
THE INVESTMENT PROCESS OF CONSTRUKTION, IN CONDUKTING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPAST ASSESMENT (EIA) IN FEASIBILITY STUDIES, INENDORSING DOCUMENTS RELEVANT TO ALLOTMENT OF LAND SITES
A.I. Shevchuk
The Odessa Department of the International Socio-Ecological Union
Odessa
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Construction stage
Stage of EIA in feasibility studies
Participation of the publik in decision making
Ion of the pu •naking
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Preparation of initial data for designated construction of facilities determination of industrial program, demands for raw material, energy resources and capacity building
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Location of designated facilities
• Drawing up a statement of intent and its registry at local self- government agencies;
· Public action of statement in official local press
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Elaboration of options for location of facilities according to environmental conditio
Ns and engineer ing preparat
Tions of the territory
Preliminary assessment of impact of facilities on the environment. The interested party is obligated to:
· Suppy available open information;
· Give
fnancial
support to all proced ures of EIA
1. The public consideres the facilities with the list of
Activity and other highly ecologically dangerous faciliti-
es, assesses the facilities according to different criteria which may be expressed in quantity, size, weight, volume etc. If the proposed activity will lead to enhancement of These criteria, the public will reveal the key environmental impact as a result of possible implementation of the main project or its options.
1. The public participates in:
· public hearings;
· Informative sessions of the public;
· Creation of public advisory groups;
· Groups of pereodic dissemination of information;
· Publications in press;
· Statements, expert conclusions etc.
2. The public includes in the regulatory acts of EIA
· Statements which will demand the interested party to publish information in mass media, on the intent to conduct EIA;
· Requirements of the project which can be answered only through mass media.
4. The public organizes committees of public activities committees of public activities which may include groups of people representing all layers of the population, grups of environmental interest and businessmen.. These committees may be in key position for environment of participation of the public by
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disseminating information on the project of appointed public representatives of the project environment.
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Drawing up and ap
Proval of assignmen
t for elaboration of fea sibility studies
Drawing up assign
Ment for elaboration
of EIA materials in feasibility studies
Public submits proposals in written form for inclu
ding in elaboration of EIA in feasibility studies
Elaboration of facilities studies as established in the norm documents
Elaboration of EIA in facilities stud
ies EIA materials are included in feasi
bility studies in a separate section (vo
lume part, chapter) «under the head
ing Environmental impact assessment (EIA of designed activity).
1. Preparation of preliminary EIA
a) Interested party
· Discusses with the public the deter
mination of those alternative projects which are necessary for study feasible options;
· Informs the public on important
The public participating in EIA controls
· the possibility of
locating the facilities from the point of view of environmental capacity of the territory;
· the state of the
environment where the facilities will be located;
· the availability of
ecolojical prognoses;
Issues and changes in the elaborated projects as they may occur;
· Ask the public for help on Environmental issues
in describing ecological conditions and on which the proposed project could have a potential impact;
· Envisages potential confhlicts and helps in
discussing controversies between interested parties at initial stages;
· Determines ecological intermediaries to expedi
te the examination of the whole list of issues and allows the public and some citizens to make a substantiated choice as to the use and risk
connected with the proposed action;
b) The interested party is obligated to:
Organize public hearings (one or several) in feasibilit
y studies approving suitable timetable with the public
· conformity of
proposed activity with prospects of socioeconomic
development of the area;
· the record of
integrated (combined) impact of harmful factors and facilities on the
environment;
The public submits its proposals in written form to the interested party
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2. The interested party submits an EIA report (published final report for this stage) jointly with feasibility studies for comments
The public:
· receives from the interested party for considering
the published EIA plan in feasibility studies;
· makes demands on giving enough time for public
consideration and comments;
· elucidates activity in mass media;
· sends comments on final EIA document in feasibility
studies either on separate issues or as a separate document summarising public response.
3.Preparation of final EIA document in fasibilitystudies
The public :
· receives from the interested party the final EIA report
(interrated EIA) in the feasibility studies ;
· are convinced that:
- the documents of integrated EIA in feasibility studies prepared for submitting to state expertise guarantee the environmental safety for life and health people;
- environmental, economic and social interests are balanced;
- are scientifically justified ;
- are objective;
-issues are considered in a complex-there are actual alternative
- are discussed openly;
- are fulfilled in adherence to acting legislation;
- public opinion is considered;
- the documents are properly drawn up (signatures of executors including the chief engineer, sealed, as the chief engineer bears juridical responsibility for proper use of norm documents in the calculations carried out)
4.Draving up statements of ecolojical consequences of
activity. The abridged version of the statement is published in press
The public attracts the attention to the publication through press, TV, radio, other means and comments on EIA elaboration, conformity of feasibility studies, with acting legislation etc
Approval and confirmation of feasib
ility studies.1.The interes
ted party (sponsor) is obligated:
· to preliminary approve the
materials submitted for state
ecological expertise with interested parties (conclusions of landusers if the land is not reserve, of corresponding coun
cils, architectural, landuser, epidemological and nature conservation agencies);
· the submitted documents
should have an assessment of possible social consequences;
2. The conclusion of the state eco
logical expertise after confirmation of the Ministry of Ecological Safe
ty is obligatory for fulfillment.
3. Positive conclusion of the State ecoexpertise is:
· the basis for open financing;
· the document substantiating the choice of the site (route) of construction.
4. 4. Choice of the site (route) of construction
For drawing up an Act of the choice of the site the interested party is obligated to:
· organise a committee for carrying
· out the procedure of choice of the site (route) of construction from in
· terested organisations andagencies of State inspection, of the public;
· go with the commission to the
· site where the act of choice of the site (route) is to be signed;
the act of choice of the site al
lows the interested party and desi
gn organisation to begindesignin
Ecological expertise of EIA materials is conducted in feasibility studies.
The interested party should (sponsor):
· fulfil state ecolojical expertise of EIA materials in feasibility studies;
for facilities having a hidh ecological hazard, the state ecological expertise is carried out after the interested party makes the statement public on ecological consequences of activity taking into consideration the impact of dangerous factors and facilities on the environment
The public:
· is included instate
expert committees pu
blic representatives;
· Through mass me
dia the expert com
mittee on conducting public ecological ex
pertise ismade public stating its compositi
on, time schedule for conducting expertise
· Statements
on conducting social ecological expertise are submitted to corresponding Councils of deputies, agencies of state executive power and state ecological expertise;
· the results of public ecological expertise are submitted to mass media, local government and state ecological expertise agencies for consideration of public ecological expertise;
ecological-expert agencies or others after finishing ecological expertise inform the mass media about the results
The sheme has a continuation on the stages of Designing and Construktion
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