This document discusses the principles, purpose, objectives and procedural steps of environmental impact assessment (EIA). It explains that EIA aims to ensure environmental factors are considered before approving projects and to encourage relevant procedures are followed. The key procedural steps discussed are screening, scoping, impact prediction, mitigation, reporting, review, decision making, monitoring and post-development audit. The document also provides definitions of sustainable development and the National Environmental Policy Act.

1. MANOJ THAKUR
M.Sc IV semester
2116
Panjab university chandigarh-160014

2. INTRODUCTION
PRINCIPLE
NEPA
PURPOSE OF REPORT
OBJECTIVE
PROCEDURAL STEPS OF EIA
CONCLUSION

4. PRINCIPLE
 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT:
Development to meet the need of
present generation without compromising the ability
of future generation to meet their needs.

5. DEFINITION
Source https://www.cbd.int/impact/whatis.shtml

8. NATIONAL ENVIRONMENT POLICY
ACT (NEPA)
 Signed into law on January 1, 1970.
 Range of actions covered by NEPA is broad and
includes:
 Making decisions on permit applications.
 Adopting federal land management actions.
 Constructing highways and other publicly-owned
facilities.

9. PURPOSE OF EIA REPORT
 Estimation of effect on environment.
 Presentation of report to authorities.
 Improvement of report.

10. OBJECTIVES
 To ensure eventual effect on environment are
considered before the approval of project.
 To encourage implementation of relevant procedure
before finalising the project.

11. Procedural steps of
EIA

12.  SCREENING
 SCOPING
 IMPACT PREDICTION
 IMPACT MITIGATION
 REPORTING
 REVIEW
 DECISION MAKING
 MONITORING
 POST DEVELOPMENT AUDIT

13. SCREENING
 Determine whether a
particular project
requires preparation of
EIA or not.

14. SCOPING
 An exhaustive list of all likely impacts drawing
information from as many sources as possible was
prepared.
 The next step was to select a manageable number of
attributes, which were likely to be affected due the
proposed project.
 The various criteria applied for selection of the
important impacts include magnitude, extent and
significance.

15. Scoping requires the collection of
data

16. INFORMATION
COLLECTED FROM
THE VARIOUS
RESOURCES SUCH
AS GIS, SATELLITE
IMAGERY, EXPERT
KNOWLEDGE,
AUDIT REPORT OF
SIMILAR EIA.

17. PREDICTION OF IMPACT
 Impact expected to occur due to purposed
construction and operation of a project.

18. TYPES OF IMPACT
 Ecological impact
 Physiochemical impact
 Impact on human interest

19. MITIGATION OF IMPACT
 Ensure that the impact are with in acceptable level.

20. REPORTING
 EIA report is prepared and sent to the concerned
authorities.

21. CONTENTS OF REPORT

22. REVIEW
 Report studied thoroughly and deficiencies and
correction are being made .

23. DECISION MAKING

24. MONITORING
 Done once the approval has been given .
 Continue through the project.

25. POST DEVELOPMENT AUDIT
 After a project has been established a survey done
after few years to know whether a project working in
accordance with EIA submitted or not.
 Data could be used in other EIA also.

27. CONCLUSIONS
 EIA is an important tool in assuring that project and
the plan will not give an adverse impact on the
environment.
 It improves the environmental design of the proposal.
 Ensure that resources used appropriately and
efficiently.
 Identifies appropriate measures for mitigating the
potential impact of the project.

28. WORK CITED
 Dutta B.K., Bandyopadhyay S. (2010), “Environmental
Impact Assessment and Social Impact Assessment-
Decision Making Tool for Project Appraisal in India”,
International Journal of Human and Social Sciences 5: 350-
355
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_asse
ssment (as on 06/01/16)
 Ministry of Environment and Forests, “The Environment
Impact Assessment Notification. S.O.60 (E),” Ministry of
Environment and Forest, Government of India, New Delhi,
1994. http://envfor.nic.in/legis/eia/so-60(e).html
 www.ceeindia.org national environment policy.