EIA guidelines - are they doing the job?
- Lawrence Environmental, Langley, British Columbia (Canada)
There is a tendency to evaluate the merits of the direction provided by the regulatory level to EIA practitioners by focusing exclusively on the contents of EIA requirements as expressed through legislation and regulations. However, much more substantive guidance is provided through general and project-specific EIA guidelines. EIA guidelines in Canada provide a useful case in point to EIA regulators and practitioners in the United States and elsewhere. The Federal government in Canada and in the ten Canadian provinces each has separate and distinctly different EIA legislation, regulations and guidelines. A review of the contents of EIA guidelines across these eleven jurisdictions can provide many insights regarding the role that EIA regulators can and should assume in shaping the contents of EIA documents and the conduct of the EIA planning process.
- OSTI ID:
- 500803
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9705100--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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