Decentralization of the Ministry of environmental protection on 25 EIA EIA regulatory permission to strengthen EIA | right | | environment Ministry _ news

Xinhuanet, Beijing, December 10 (reporter Gu Ruizhen)-Ministry of environmental protection has issued bulletins to decentralize the EIA approval for construction projects, a total of 25 items, mainly infrastructure and environmental impact of smaller projects, such as distributing gas-fired power generation, urban rapid rail transit, expanding civilian airport and other projects.

Environmental Protection Department also issued the construction project environmental impact assessment guidelines for government information opening and the strengthening of the supervision and management of the environmental impact assessment notification, expands EIA in the openness of Government information, strengthen the EIA ex post regulation.

Also, the Environmental Protection Department will continue to stringently cross-regional watershed, environmental impact, critical, sensitive, complex environmental impact assessment of construction project management, retain the EIA approval for these projects. These project both including "two high funding" and capacity excess of coal-fired thermal power, and steel, and electrolytic aluminum project, exists larger environment risk of nuclear and radiation project, on ecological effects highlight of hydropower, and colored mine development, and thousand tons level above navigation buildings river shipping, and national nature reserve and landscape resorts district within investment 50 million Yuan above of tourism development and resources protection project,, also including involves heavy metal emissions of new and expansion copper, and lead, and zinc smelting project, and chrome salt, and cyanide of property production project,.

In recent years because of environmental problems caused by construction projects of environmental group events occur frequently, the growing public concern for environmental impact assessment.

From four aspects of the guidelines increase the intensity of EIA information disclosure: a public environmental assessment report (table) all to make all information on public access to environmental assessment documents, in favour of more fully in the project review process for public comment, subject to public supervision. Second is the public commitment of the Government documents, enabling the public to Government pledges to implement social supervision, better bind the Government to discharge its duties. Third, public approval and the approval of EIA documents in full. Four of EIA institutions and practitioners in public integrity information.

Ministry of environment protection stressed that major construction projects to investigate and obtain evidence in a timely manner of environmental violations or punishment; reply has failed to meet the environmental assessment requirements, construction project public comments focused strongly, in place rectification will not be adopted before environmental protection acceptance.

It is understood that the next step in decentralization of approval authority and the Department of environmental protection while strengthening supervision and management, will continue to promote the functional transformation, and comprehensively improve the status and effectiveness of the strategy and strategic environmental assessment, enhanced ability to participate in integrated decision-making of environmental protection.

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环保部下放25项环评审批权限 强化环评监管|环评|权限|环保部_新闻资讯

　　新华网北京12月10日电（记者顾瑞珍）中国环境保护部日前发布公告，下放环评审批权限的建设项目共25项，主要是基础设施类和环境影响较小的项目，如分布式燃气发电、城市快速轨道交通、扩建民用机场等项目。

　　环保部还配套印发《建设项目环境影响评价政府信息公开指南》和《关于切实加强环境影响评价监督管理工作的通知》，旨在加大环评政府信息公开、强化环评事中事后监管。

　　同时，环保部将继续严格跨区域流域、环境影响重大、敏感复杂建设项目的环评管理，保留这些项目的环评审批权限。这些项目既包括“两高一资”和产能过剩的燃煤火电、钢铁、电解铝项目，存在较大环境风险的核与辐射项目，对生态影响突出的水电、有色矿山开发、千吨级以上通航建筑物内河航运、国家级自然保护区和风景名胜区内投资5000万元以上的旅游开发和资源保护项目等，也包括涉及重金属排放的新建和扩建铜、铅、锌冶炼项目，以及铬盐、氰化物生产项目等。

　　近年来因建设项目环境问题引发的环境群体性事件频繁发生，环境影响评价越来越受公众关注。

　　《指南》从四个方面加大了环评信息公开力度：一是公开环评报告书（表）全本，使公众能够获得环评文件的全部信息，有利于在项目审查过程中更充分地征求公众意见，接受社会监督。二是公开政府承诺文件，使公众能够对政府兑现承诺情况实施社会监督，更好地约束政府履行职责。三是公开批准和不予批准环评文件的全文。四是公开环评机构和从业人员诚信信息。

　　环保部强调，对存在重大环境违法行为的建设项目要及时调查取证或处罚；对未达到环评批复要求、公众意见集中强烈的建设项目，在整改到位之前一律不予通过环保验收。

　　据了解，环保部下一步在下放审批权限和加强监督管理的同时，将继续推进职能转变，全面提高战略和规划环评的地位和效能，增强环境保护参与综合决策能力。

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2013年12月10日23:20
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