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Effectiveness Enhancement Measures for Local Government Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) by Improving Small-scale EIA Institution

  • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Abbr : J EIA
  • 2023, 32(1), pp.15-28
  • Publisher : Korean Society Of Environmental Impact Assessment
  • Research Area : Engineering > Environmental Engineering
  • Received : September 30, 2022
  • Accepted : February 17, 2023
  • Published : February 28, 2023

Jongook Lee 1,  Kyeong Doo Cho 2

1인천연구원 기후환경연구센터
2(재) 인천연구원

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ABSTRACT

In the Republic of Korea, the target project scope of the small-scale EIA is stipulated as the plan area above around 5,000~60,000m2 depending on a type of project and classification of land use. Whereas, the lowerlimit of the corresponding local government EIA project is generally located above the small-scale EIA’s limits, and overlapping ranges exist. This situation has been enlarged since road construction and district unit planning were included as the target projects for small-scale EIA in the “Enforcement Decree of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act”, which was partially revised in November 2016, and the current consultation system needed discussion in that small-scale EIA is allowed to be done without gathering review opinions at the local level. In fact, projects subjected to local government EIA but consulted as small-scale EIAs may seem insignificant because of a small number of total cases; however, it is worth paying attention to the fact that a local government may not add a target project due to the small-scale EIA. This study suggested the three policy measures forimproving small-scale EIA to enhance the effectiveness of local government EIA: supplementing the institutional arrangements to incorporate the review opinion from the localregion in small-scale EIA, giving priority to local EIA for conducing the projects in overlapping ranges with partial amendments on EIA law regarding exceptions to local government EIA, including small target projects (not to be small-scale EIA targets) to the ordinance that are deemed necessary to be conducted as local government EIA. Even though a positive function of small-scale EIA has been confirmed, efforts should be made to improve the situation in which many projects within local governments are consulted without review from the region.

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