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Timestamp: 2018-03-22 13:54:32
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EIA Country Report for Taiwan
Environmental Impact Assessment Act, 1994
Developer shall prepare a "phase I" environmental impact study and submit it to the competent authority. The authority has 50 days to complete a review (may be extended by 50 days) and notify the developer if a "phase II" assessment must be prepared. A phase II assessment is required if there is concern about significant impact on the environment. EIA Act, Arts. 6, 7, 8
EIA Act, Arts. 7 & 8
EIA Act, Arts. 5 & 8 (list of activities for Phase I assessment; "significant impact" standard for Phase II assessment). "Significant impact" is further defined in the EIA Enforcement Regulations, Art. 19
"For those development activities for which environmental impact assessments are required pursuant to the foregoing article to be conducted, the developer, when planning, shall, in accordance with environmental impact assessment working standards, conduct a phase Ⅰ environmental impact assessment and prepare an environmental impact statement." EIA Act, Art. 6
60 (may be extended)
"After authorization by the competent authority of the environmental impact assessment report in the foregoing paragraph, the environmental impact assessment report and a summary of the review conclusion shall be officially announced and published in the official register of the competent authority." EIA Act, Art. 13. Permission granted prior to completion of review or authorization of an EIA report shall be invalid. EIA Act, Art. 14.
There appears to be authority to impose conditions. See EIA Enforcement Rules, Art. 43.
"When a developer starts development activity more than three years after the approval of its environmental impact statement or environmental impact assessment report and the acquisition of development activity permission granted by the industry competent authority, the developer shall submit an analysis of the difference between current environmental conditions and environmental conditions at the time its development activity permission was granted and a strategy evaluation report to the competent authority for review. Development activity may not start prior to the completion of the review by the competent authority." EIA Act, Art. 16-1
The EIA report must contain "alternate plan" [sic] EIA Act, Art. 11(IX)
Not mentioned in the EIA Act provision concerning content of draft EIA report. See EIA Act, Art. 11.
The EIA shall contain "[a] summary chart of strategies for the prevention and mitigation of the adverse impact of the development activity on the environment" and a budget for implementation of the environmental protection work. EIA Act Art. 11 (XIV, XV)
Although project implementation monitoring occurs (see EIA Act, Art. 18), there does not appear to be a requirement that the project developer prepare a monitoring plan during the EIA process.
If it is determined that a Phase II assessment is required, the project developer must "display or post" the Phase I environmental impact study at an "appropriate location" for not less than 30 days. It must also publish notice in newspapers that the study is available for public inspection. EIA Act, Art. 8 "Appropriate location" is defined in the Enforcement Regulations, Art. 20, and includes local government offices, schools, libraries, churches/temples, and markets. The developer must choose at least 5 locations evenly distributed.
"After authorization by the competent authority of the environmental impact assessment report in the foregoing paragraph, the environmental impact assessment report and a summary of the review conclusion shall be officially announced and published in the official register of the competent authority." EIA Act, Art. 13.
"After authorization by the competent authority of the environmental impact assessment report in the foregoing paragraph, the environmental impact assessment report and a summary of the review conclusion shall be officially announced and published in the official register of the competent authority." EIA Act, Art. 13. The competent authority shall make its conclusions and conference records of the Environmental Impact Assessment Review Committee publicly available on the Internet. EIA Enforcement Rules, Art. 13.
The competent authority shall invite together the relevant agencies, groups, scholars, experts and representatives of local residents in order to define the scope of the Phase II assessment. EIA Act, Art. 10.
The developer must hold a "public explanation meeting" after the time period for reviewing the Phase I study is complete. EIA Act, Art. 8. The competent authority also hold a public hearing upon completion of the draft Phase II EIA report. EIA Act, Art. 12
Article 23 of the EIA Enforcement Regulations describes how comments must be handled.
Community members shall submit their opinions in writing to the Developer within fifteen days after the public explanation meeting. EIA Act, Art. 9.
The Developer shall compile item-by-item explanations and circumstances concerning the acceptance or reasons for not accepting the opinions of local residents. Enforcement Rules Art. 23.
The industry competent authority shall invite together experts, scholars, and local residents to conduct an onsite inspection within 30 days of the draft EIA report. EIA Act, Art. 12. Local residents may delegate to a representative, in writing, the right to act on their behalf in accordance with the EIA Act. EIA Act, Art. 30
"When the developer violates this Act or related orders determined pursuant to the authorization of this Act and the competent authority is negligent in enforcement, victims or public interest groups may notify the competent authority in writing of the details of the negligent enforcement." EIA Act, Art. 23
"For those competent authorities that have still failed to carry out enforcement in accordance with the law within sixty days after receipt of the written notification, the victims or public interest groups may name the competent authority at issue as a defendant and directly file a lawsuit with an administrative court based on the negligent behavior of the competent authority in the execution of its duties in order to seek a ruling ordering the competent authority to execute its duties." EIA Act, Art. 23. There is a fee-shifting provision: "When issuing a verdict on the lawsuit in the foregoing paragraph, the administrative court pursuant to its authority may order the defendant agency to pay the appropriate lawyer fees, detection and appraisal fees and other litigation costs to plaintiffs that have made specific contributions to the prevention and mitigation of the adverse impact of the development activity on the environment."
"During the implementation of the development activity and when using the development after completion of the development activity, the implementation of the environmental impact statement, environmental impact assessment report and review conclusion shall be tracked by the industry competent authority and supervised by the competent authority; when necessary, the developer may be ordered to regularly submit environmental impact survey reports." EIA Act, Art. 18. See also EIA Enforcement Regulations, Arts. 39, 40 (describing "matters to be tracked" by the industry competent authority and content of environmental impact survey report)
If the developer violates the Act or "related orders," citizens may seek administrative and judicial review. EIA Act, Art. 23. Developers are required to strictly comply with
Citizens may enforce if the competent authority is negligent in its duties to enforce. EIA Act, Art. 23