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Practice of EIA Inquiry Committee in Japanese Local Governments

Practice of EIA Inquiry Committee in Japanese Local Governments. IAIA 27 th Annual Conference 6 June 2007 Seoul, KOREA. Shigeo NISHIKIZAWA and Yasuhiro FUJII The University of Shiga Prefecture. Viewpoint and Objective. Transparency Third Party Check System

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Practice of EIA Inquiry Committee in Japanese Local Governments

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  1. Practice of EIA Inquiry Committee in Japanese Local Governments IAIA 27th Annual Conference 6 June 2007 Seoul, KOREA Shigeo NISHIKIZAWA and Yasuhiro FUJII The University of Shiga Prefecture

  2. Viewpoint and Objective • Transparency • Third Party Check System • EIC=EIA Inquiry Committee : Local Governments • To examine the validity of EIA • Procedures of inquiry are left to … • Ordinances or discretion • To clarify the practical conditions of EIC

  3. Methodology • Ordinances or Guidelines of EIA • Panel Survey ( Nov.-Dec., 2006 ) • 56 Local Governments：collecting rate=100% • 44 Prefectures + 12 Ordinance-designated cities • EIA officer answer on the basis of… • projects within 5 years

  4. Questionnaire • Contents of the Inquiry by EIC • EIA guideline?, Scoping document?, DEIS? …etc • Member ofEIC • The number of committee members?, • Officer’s opinion of committee member? • Procedures of inquiry • Period for inquiry?, • Committees conductproject-site survey? • Disclosure ofEIC • Meeting?, Minute?, Announcement on the internet?

  5. Contents of inquiry regulated by ordinance ～56 Local Governments～ Contents of Inquiry Number ofLocal Gov. (95%) (73%) Yamanashi Pref., Toyama Pref., Fukuoka Pref. and Yokohama city (91%) (84%)

  6. Practical condition of Inquiry All committees have examined for all project Fukuoka Pref. All committees haven’t examined except for Okinawa Pref. Only Shizuoka, Okinawa and Kagawa Pref. have examined ～no provision, discretion～ Contents of Inquiry Guideline of EIA Tech. Scoping Document DEIS FEIS Follow up Document Number ofLocal Gov.

  7. Number of Local Gov. 60 56 56 Realities Ideal (Officer’s opinion) 50 42 41 40 37 35 29 30 23 20 10 1 0 EIA System Climate Change Sustainability Public Ecology Science Advertisement Committee Member’s Major field Reality and Ideal of Committee Member EIA system experts are not enough Kawasaki City: necessity to be appointed by PA 0

  8. Procedure: Period for inquiry Completion of Scoping ～ Submission of DEIS Spend more than 1 year in order to consider impact caused by the changes of seasons Month :Longest period project :Shortest period project 3 days Proponents have conducted the greater part of the survey at the scoping process Local Governments

  9. Saitama Pref. Yamanashi Pref. have conducted at the all stages. Most of committees have conducted at either stage Project‐site survey conducted by the committee Project Phase Number of Local governments Scoping （n=56) DEIS （n=53) Project Implementation （n=51) Project Completion （n=50) Conduct fifty-fifty Do not Conduct

  10. Committee of Saitama Pref. is so excellent in information disclosure that satisfies all conditions. Disclosure of EIC

  11. Conclusions １）It is cleared that most committees examine scoping documents and DEISs. To the contrary, few committees examine FEIS and follow up documents. ２）All of the committees appoint ecology-experts. However, EIA system-experts are appointed at a few committees because of short supply. ３）Most of survey for EIA have been completed for less than one year. It implies that the greater part of survey have been conducted at the scoping process. 4 ）Saitama prefecture’s committee has been taking appropriate measures for disclosure. In future, it should be improved the announcement on the internet in many local governments.

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