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Environment Protection Agency (Environmental Impact Assessment Licence) Regulations, 2010 (S.I. No. 14 of 2010).

Country/Territory
Sierra Leone
Document type
Regulation
Date
2010
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Supplement to the Sierra Leone Gazette Vol. CXLI, No. 85 dated 2nd December, 2010.
Subject
Environment gen., Water
Keyword
Monitoring EIA Authorization/permit Environmental fees/charges Freshwater pollution Pollution control Effluent waste water/discharge
Geographical area
Africa, Least Developed Countries, North Atlantic, Western Africa
Abstract

These Regulations require persons who wish to undertake or cause to be undertaken any of the projects set out in the First Schedule to the Environment Protection Agency Act, 2008 to apply to the Environment Protection Agency for a licence. On the approval of the environment impact assessment submitted under section 26 of the Act, the Agency shall issue a licence. The application shall be in the form set out in the First Schedule and a licence in the form as set out in Schedule 2. The Agency shall monitor the activities of a licence holder for the purpose of ensuring that the terms and conditions of the licence and other requirements of the Act are complied with. The monitoring of the activities of a licence holder shall relate to– (a) the area and complexity of the project and the project site; (b) the potential area of impact of the project; (c) the intensity of the impact; (d) whether there is a substantial change or modification in the project or in the manner in which the project is being undertaken; (e) whether the project poses a threat to the environment which could not have been reasonably foreseen at the time of the submission of the environmental impact assessment; (f) the implementation of mitigation measures provided for in the environmental impact assessment. The fees charged for the issuance of a licence shall be on a weighted points system.

Full text
English

References - Legislation

Implements

Environment Protection Agency Act, 2008 (No. 11 of 2008).

Legislation | Sierra Leone | 2008

Keyword: Air quality/air pollution, Ozone layer, Pollution control, Framework law, Institution, EIA, Environmental planning, Authorization/permit, Enforcement/compliance, Policy/planning, Hazardous waste, Waste management, Freshwater pollution, Effluent waste water/discharge

Source: FAO, FAOLEX