tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12058445421405625302024-03-16T02:09:20.740+01:00LASU-LAWS Environmental BlogWelcome to the blog of the Environmental Law Class of the Lagos State University (LASU): A medium for discussing environmental problems in Nigeria and identifying environmental trends across the world with a view proffering suggestions for improving & increasing environmental protection in Nigeria.LASULAWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040395997034567500noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-14879980872765941832012-08-22T18:18:00.001+01:002012-08-22T22:20:34.095+01:002011/2012 Rain Semester AoCs<br />
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<li>The North-South Debate</li>
<li>Ozone Depletion, Climate Change & Global Warming</li>
<li>National Environmental Problems (Flood, Erosion, Deforestation and Desertification)</li>
<li>Oil Pollution</li>
<li>Biodiversity</li>
<li>The Kyoto Protocol</li>
<li>Air, Water, Land, Waste and Noise Pollution</li>
<li>International Legal Instruments (All Conventions, Treaties & Protocols covered in class)</li>
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LASULAWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040395997034567500noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-50918547263714611572012-08-09T22:02:00.001+01:002012-08-10T00:10:12.801+01:00LASU-LAWS ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CLASS OF 2011/2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Pictures of the LASU-LAWS Environmental Law Class of 2011/2012 after the last lecture of the session.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: small-caps;">© A</span><span style="text-align: justify;">yodele Morocco-Clarke</span>LASULAWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040395997034567500noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-73477714519638195842012-07-29T16:29:00.001+01:002012-07-29T16:31:26.115+01:00Climate Change Study Forces Sceptical Scientists to Change Minds<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">For numerous years, there have been scientists who have scoffed at and tried to debunk the claim that there is a consistent warming of the earth and the fact that this global warming can chiefly be attributed to the effects of man. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">One such skeptic is Professor Richard M. Muller, who in the face of recent findings and evidence has done a volte face. As a convert to the fact that global warming is indeed real, he stated, "<span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">CALL me a converted skeptic. Three years ago I identified problems in previous climate studies that, in my mind, threw doubt on the very existence of global warming. Last year, following an intensive research effort involving a dozen scientists, I concluded that global warming was real and that the prior estimates of the rate of warming were correct. I’m now going a step further: Humans are almost entirely the cause." </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">See </span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/opinion/the-conversion-of-a-climate-change-skeptic.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all">The Conversion of a Climate-Change Skeptic</a> for the full article on his current opinion. See also the UK Guardian's article on Professor Muller's findings. </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/29/climate-change-sceptics-change-mind?CMP=twt_fd">Climate Change Study Forces Sceptical Scientists to Change Minds</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">AM-C</span></div>LASULAWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040395997034567500noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-83851764410790272402012-07-29T13:23:00.000+01:002012-07-29T14:38:46.008+01:00The Environmental and Living Costs of Oil Production in Nigeria<span style="background-color: #444444;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;">"For over 50 years now, the extraction of crude oil and natural gas from Nigeria's Niger Delta has meant wealth for a privileged few but has exacted heavy costs on residents and the environment. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;">Nigeria is the world's 8th largest producer of crude oil, yet remains one of its poorest nations -- an estimated 70 percent of its 150 million residents live below the poverty line. The environment is paying a steep price as well. An estimated 500 million gallons of oil have spilled into the delta -- the equivalent of roughly one Exxon Valdez disaster per year. A number of factors have contributed to these disasters: poor construction and maintenance, lax regulation, militant attacks, and petroleum thieves, not to mention government instability and abuse of power. According to cables released by WikiLeaks, Shell Oil claimed to have planted staff in all of Nigeria's main ministries, gaining access to key government decisions. Gathered here are some scenes from Nigeria's long, disastrous relationship with the crude oil industry." - [Quote taken from "Nigeria: The Cost of Oil" published by the Atlantic Magazine]</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: #444444; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">Horrific photographs show the extent of environmental degradation in Nigeria & the rape of the Niger-Delta region as a result of petroleum exploration and production activities. See </span><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/nigeria-the-cost-of-oil/100082/" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">Nigeria: The Cost of Oil</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"> for the photographs detailing the magnitude of the pollution caused by Nigeria's oil industry.</span>
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</div>LASULAWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040395997034567500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-33774126147217130802012-07-24T15:09:00.002+01:002012-07-29T14:12:18.182+01:00Areas of Concentration for Mid-Semester Test<br />
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<li>The Debate on the North-South Divide</li>
<li>The Kyoto Protocol</li>
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AM-C</div>LASULAWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040395997034567500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-90366730272921803462012-07-18T21:32:00.002+01:002012-07-29T14:09:12.022+01:00Indira Gandhi's Speech at the Stockholm Conference in 1972<strong><span lang="EN-US">Man And
Environment </span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><br />
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<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">Smt. Indira Gandhi </span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><br />
<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">(late Prime
Minister of India) </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Plenary
Session of United Nations Conference on Human Environment </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Stockholm
14th June, 1972 </span></strong><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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It is indeed an honour to address this Conference-in itself a fresh expression
of the spirit which created the United Nations-concern for the present and
future welfare of humanity. It does not aim merely at securing limited
agreements but at establishing peace and harmony in life-among all races and
with Nature. This gathering represents man's earnest endeavour to understand
his own condition and to prolong his tenancy of this planet. A vast amount of
detailed preparatory work has gone into the convening of this Conference guided
by the dynamic personality of Mr. Maurice Strong the Secretary General. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I have had the good fortune of growing up with a sense of kinship with
nature in all its manifestations. Birds, plants, stones were companions and,
sleeping under the star-strewn sky, I became familiar with the names and
movements of the constellations. But my deep interest in this our `only earth'
was not for itself but as a fit home for man. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">One cannot be truly human and civilized unless one looks upon not only
all fellow-men but all creation with the eyes of a friend. Throughout India,
edicts carved on rocks and iron pillars are reminders that 22 centuries ago the
Emperor Ashoka defined a King's duty as not merely to protect citizens and
punish wrongdoers but also to preserve animal life and forest trees. Ashoka was
the first and perhaps the only monarch until very recently, to forbid the
killing of a large number of species of animals for sport or food,
foreshadowing some of the concerns of this Conference. He went further,
regretting the carnage of his military conquests and enjoining upon his
successors to find "their only pleasure in the peace that comes through
righteousness". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">Along with the rest of mankind, we in India--in spite of Ashoka have been
guilty of wanton disregard for the sources of our sustenance. We share you
concern at the rapid deterioration of flora and fauna. Some of our own wildlife
has been wiped out, miles of forests with beautiful old trees, mute witnesses
of history, have been destroyed. Even though our industrial development is in
its infancy, and at its most difficult stage, we are taking various steps to
deal with incipient environmental imbalances. The more so because of our
concern for the human being--a species which is also imperiled. In poverty he
is threatened by malnutrition and disease, in weakness by war, in richness by
the pollution brought about by his own prosperity. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">It is said that in country after country, progress should become
synonymous with an assault on nature. We who are a part of nature and dependent
on her for very need, speak constantly about "exploiting" nature.
When the highest mountain in the world was climber in 1953, Jawaharlal Nehru
objected to the phrase "conquest of Everest" which he thought was
arrogant. It is surprising that this lack of consideration and the constant
need to prove one's superiority should be projected onto our treatment of our
fellowmen? I remember Edward Thompson, a British writer and a good friend of
India, once telling Mr. Gandhi that wildlife was fast disappearing. Remarked
the Mahatma--"It is decreasing in the jungles but it is increasing in the
town". <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">We are gathered here under the aegis of the United Nations. We are
supposed to belong to the same family sharing common traits and impelled by the
same basic desires, yet we inhabit a divided world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">How can it be otherwise? There is still no recognition of the equality of
man or respect for him as an individual. In matters of colour and race,
religion and custom, society is governed by prejudice. Tensions arise because
of man's aggressiveness and notions of superiority. The power of the big stick
prevails and it is used not in favour of fair play or beauty, but to chase
imaginary windmills--to assume the right to interfere in the affairs of others,
and to arrogate authority for action which would not normally be allowed. Many
of the advanced countries of today have reached their present affluence by
their domination over other races and countries, the exploitation of their own
natural resources. They got a head start through sheer ruthlessness,
undisturbed by feelings of compassion or by abstract theories of freedom,
equality or justice. The stirrings of demands for the political rights of
citizens, and the economic rights of the toiler came after considerable advance
had been made. The riches and the labour of the colonized countries played no
small part in the industrialization and prosperity of the West. Now, as we
struggle to create a better life for our people, it is in vastly different
circumstances, for obviously in today's eagle-eyed watchfulness we cannot indulge
in such practices even for a worthwhile purpose. We are bound by our own
ideals. We owe allegiance to the principles of the rights of workers and the
norms enshrined in the charters of international organizations. Above all we
are answerable to the millions of politically awakened citizens in our
countries. All these make progress costlier and more complicated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">On the one hand the rich look askance at our continuing poverty--on the
other, they warn us against their own methods. We do not wish to impoverish the
environment any further and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty
of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
For instance, unless we are in a position to provide employment and purchasing
power for the daily necessities of the tribal people and those who live in or
around our jungles, we cannot prevent them from combing the forest for food and
livelihood; from poaching and from despoiling the vegetation. When they
themselves feel deprived, how can we urge the preservation of animals? How can
we speak to those who live in villages and in slums about keeping the oceans,
the rivers and the air clean when their own lives are contaminated at the
source? The environment cannot be improved in conditions of poverty. Nor can
poverty be eradicated without the use of science and technology. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">Must there be conflict between technology and a truly better world or
between enlightenment of the spirit and a higher standard of living? Foreigners
sometimes ask what to us seems a very strange question, whether progress in
India would not mean diminishing of her spirituality or her values. Is
spiritual quality so superficial as to be dependent upon the lack of material
comfort? As a country we are not more or less spiritual than any other but
traditionally our people have respected the spirit of detachment and
renunciation. Historically, our great spiritual discoveries were made during
periods of comparative affluence. The doctrines of detachment from possessions
were developed not as rationalization of deprivation but to prevent comfort and
ease from dulling the senses. Spirituality means the enrichment of the spirit,
the strengthening of ones inner resources and the stretching of one's range of
experience. It is the ability to be still in the midst of activity and
vibrantly alive in moments of calm; to separate the essence from circumstances;
to accept joy and sorrow with some equanimity. Perception and compassion are
the marks of true spirituality. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">I am reminded of an incident in one of our tribal areas. The vociferous
demand of elder tribal chiefs that their customs should be left undisturbed
found support from noted anthropologists. In its anxiety that the majority
should not submerge the many ethnic, racial and cultural groups in our country,
the Government of India largely accepted this advice. I was amongst those who
entirely approved. However, a visit to remote part of our north-east frontier
brought me in touch with a different point of view-the protest of the younger elements
that while the rest of India was on the way to modernization they were being
preserved as museum pieces. Could we not say the same to the affluent nations? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">For the last quarter of a century, we have been engaged in an enterprise
unparalled in human history--the provision of basic needs to one-sixth of
mankind within the span of one or two generations. When we launched on that
effort our early planners had more than the usual gaps to fill. There was not
enough data and no helpful books. No guidance could be sought from the
experience of other countries whose conditions--political, economic, social and
technological--were altogether different. Planning in the sense we were
innovating, had never been used in the context of a mixed economy. But we could
not wait. The need to improve the conditions of our people was pressing.
Planning and action, the improvement of data leading to better planning and
better action, all this was a continuous and overlapping process. Our
industrialization tended to follow the paths which the more advanced countries
had traversed earlier. With the advance of the 60's and particularly during the
last five years, we have encountered a bewildering collection of problems, some
due to our shortcomings but many inherent in the process and in existing
attitudes. The feeling is growing that we should re-order our priorities and
move away from the single-dimensional model which has viewed growth from
certain limited angles, which seems to have given a higher place to things
rather than to persons and which has increased our wants rather than our
enjoyment. We should have a more comprehensive approach to life, centred on man
not as a statistic but an individual with many sides to his personality. The
solution of these problems cannot be isolated phenomena of marginal importance
but must be an integral part of the unfolding of the very process of
development. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">The extreme forms in which questions of population or environmental
pollution are posed, obscure the total view of political, economic and social
situations. The Government of India is one of the few which has an officially
sponsored programme of family planning and this is making some progress. We
believe that planned families will make for a healthier and more conscious
population. But we know also that no programme of population control can be
effective without education and without a visible rise in the standard of
living. Our own programmes have succeeded in the urban or semi-urban areas. To
the very poor, every child is an earner and a helper. We ar experimenting with
new approaches and the family planning programme is being combined with those
of maternity and child welfare, nutrition and development in general. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">It is an over--simplification to blame all the world's problems on
increasing population. Countries with but a small fraction of the world
population consume the bulk of the world's production of minerals, fossil fuels
and so on. Thus we see that when it comes to the depletion of natural resources
and environmental pollution, the increase of one inhabitant in an affluent
country., at his level of living, is equivalent to an increase of many Asian,
Africans or Latin Americans at their current material levels of living. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">The inherent conflict is not between conservation and development, but
between environment and reckless exploitation of man and earth in the name of
efficiency. Historians tell us that the modern age began with the will to
freedom of the individual. And the individual came to believe that the had
rights with no corresponding obligations. The man who got ahead was the one who
commanded admiration. No questions were asked as to the methods employed or the
price which others had to pay. The industrial civilization has promoted the
concept of the efficient man, he whose entire energies are concentrated on
producing more in a given unit of time and from a given unit of manpower.
Groups or individuals who ar less competitive and according to this test, less
efficient are regarded as lesser breeds--for example the older civilizations,
the black and brown peoples, women and certain professions. Obsolescence is
built into production, and efficiency is based on the creation of goods which
are not really needed and which cannot be disposed of when discarded. What
price such efficiency now, and is not recklessness a more appropriate term for
such a behaviour? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">All the `isms' of the modern age--even those which in theory disown the
private profit principle--assume that man's cardinal interest is acquisition.
The profit motive, individual or collectives, seems to overshadow all else.
This overriding concern with self and Today is the basic cause of the
ecological crisis. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">Pollution is not a technical problem. The fault lies not in science and
technology as such but in the sense of values of the contemporary world which
ignores the rights of others and is oblivious of the longer perspective. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed
to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty. We have to prove to
the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not
work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives. To
withhold technology from them would deprive them of vast resources of energy
and knowledge. This is no longer feasible not will it be acceptable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">The environmental problems of developing countries are not the side
effects of excessive industrialization but reflect the inadequacy of
development. The rich countries may look upon development as the cause of
environmental destruction, but to us it is one of the primary means of
improving the environment for living, or providing food, water, sanitation and
shelter; of making the deserts green and the mountains habitable. The research
and perseverance of dedicated people have given us an insight which is likely
to play an important part in the shaping of our future plans. We see that
however much man hankers after material goods, they can never give him full
satisfaction. Thus the higher standard of living must be achieved without
alienating people from their heritage and without despoiling nature of its
beauty, freshness and purity so essential to our lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">The most urgent and basic question is that of peace. Nothing is so
pointless as modern warfare. Nothing destroys so instantly, so completely as
the diabolic weapons which not only kill but maim and deform the living and the
yet to be born; which poison the land, leaving long trails of ugliness,
barrenness and hopeless desolation. What ecological projects can survive a war?
The Prime Minister of Sweden, Mr. Olof Palme, has already drawn the attention
of the Conference to this in powerful words. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">It is clear that the environmental crisis which is confronting the world,
will profoundly alter the future destiny or our planet. No one among us,
whatever our status, strength or circumstance can remain unaffected. The
process of change challenges present international policies. Will the growing
awareness of "one earth" and "one environment' guide us to the
concept of "one humanity"? Will there be a more equitable sharing of
environmental costs and greater international interest in the accelerated
progress of the less developed world? Or, will it remain confined to a narrow
concern, based on exclusive self-sufficiency? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">The first essays in narrowing economic and technological disparities have
not succeeded because the policies of aid were made to subserve the equations
of power. We hope that the renewed emphasis on self-reliance, brought a about
by the change in the climate for aid, will also promote search for new criteria
of human satisfaction. In the meantime, the ecological crises should not add to
the burdens of the weaker nations by introducing new considerations in the
political and trade policies of rich nations. It would be ironic if the fight
against pollution were to be converted into another business, out of which a
few companies, corporations, or nations would make profits at the cost of the
many. Here is a branch of experimentation and discovery in which scientist of
all nations should take interest. They should ensure that their findings are
available to all nations, unrestricted by patents. I am glad that the
Conference has given thought on this aspect of the problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">Life is one and the world is one, and all these questions are
inter-linked. The population explosion; poverty; ignorance and disease, the
pollution of our surroundings, the stockpiling of nuclear weapons and
biological and chemical agents of destruction are all parts of a vicious
circle. Each is important and urgent but dealing with them one by one would be
wasted effort. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">It serves little purpose to dwell on the past or to apportion blame, no
one of us is blameless. If some are able to dominate over others, it is at
least partially due to the weakness, the lack of unity and the temptation of
gaining some advantage on the part of those who submit. If the prosperous have
been exploiting the needy, can we honestly claim that in our own societies
people do not take advantage of the weaker sections? We must re-evaluate the
fundamentals on which our respective civic societies are based and the ideals
by which they are sustained. If there is to be a change of heart, a change of
direction and methods of functioning, it is not an organization or a country-no
matter how well intentioned--which can achieve it. While each country must deal
with that aspect of the problem which is most relevant to it, it is obvious
that all countries must unite in an overall endeavour. There is no alternative
to a cooperative approach on a global scale to the entire spectrum of our
problems. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">I have referred to some problems which seem to me to be the underlying
causes of the present crises in our civilization. This is not in the
expectation that this Conference can achieve miracles or solve all the world's
difficulties, but in the hope that the opinions of each national will be kept
in focus, that these problems will be viewed in perspective and each project
devised as part of the whole. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">On a previous occasion I have spoken of the unfinished revolution in our
countries I am now convinced that this can be taken to its culmination when it
is accompanied by a revolution in social thinking. In 1968 at the 14th General
Conference of UNESCO the Indian delegation, along with others, proposed a new
and major programme entitled "a design for living". This is essential
to grasp the full implications of technical advance and its impact on different
sections and groups. We do not want to put the clock back or resign ourselves
to a simplistic natural state. We want new directions in the wiser use of the
knowledge and tools with which science has equipped us. And this cannot be just
one upsurge but a continuous search into cause and effect and an unending
effort to match technology with higher levels of thinking. We must concern
ourselves not only with the kind of world we want but also with what kind of
man should inhabit it. Surely we do not desire a society divided into those who
condition and those who are conditioned. We want thinking people capable of
spontaneous self-directed activity, people who are interested and interesting,
and who are imbued with compassion and concern for others. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">It will not be easy for large societies to change their style of living.
They cannot be coerced to do so, nor can governmental action suffice. People
can be motivated and urged to participate in better alternatives. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="EN-US">It has been my experience that people who are at cross purposes with
nature are cynical about mankind and ill-at-ease with themselves. Modern man
must re-establish an unbroken link with nature and with life. He must again
learn to invoke the energy of growing things and to recognize, as did the
ancients in India centuries ago, that one can take from the Earth and the
atmosphere only so much as one puts back into them. In their hymn to Earth, the
sages of the Atharva Veda chanted-I quote, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">"What of thee I dig
out, let that quickly grow over, Let me </span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">not hit thy vitals, or thy
heart". </span></strong><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<span lang="EN-US">So can man himself be vital and of good heart and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">conscious of his responsibility<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This speech can be found <a href="http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CGoQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenteacher.org%2Fimages%2FEE%2520Papers%2FMan%2520And%2520Environment.doc&ei=XhgHUJvAK8TQtAaKorjoBg&usg=AFQjCNGFyX0dWWQbZxS_Sx1cyJHaigBmhA&sig2=w-qS-B6EG9s6ytmo75rFWw"><b>here</b></a>.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Principles of Environmental Law</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sustainable Development</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Gas Flaring in Nigeria and the <i>Gbemre </i>case</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">History and Development of Environmental Protection in Nigeria</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Common
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Aarhus Convention</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Ayodele Morocco-Clarke</span>LASULAWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040395997034567500noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-19356770410557154272012-04-23T16:03:00.000+01:002012-04-23T20:17:07.386+01:00Gas Flaring in NigeriaFor articles on Gas Flaring in Nigeria follow this link:<br />
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<a href="http://phase1.nccr-trade.org/images/stories/publications/IP6/Nig_GasFlaring_Petroleum%20Training%20Journal%20(PTJ)%20Vol%5B1%5D.%204%20No.%202%20July%202007.pdf">Gas Flaring in Nigeria</a>Midas Bosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05903950557822739186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-35938620086372652312012-04-23T15:50:00.000+01:002012-04-23T20:17:52.425+01:00Federal Environmental Protection Agency ActFor a document on the Federal Environmental Protection Agency Act follow this link:<br />
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<a href="http://www.placng.org/lawsofnigeria/files/F10.pdf">Federal Environmental Protection Agency Act</a>Midas Bosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05903950557822739186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-90797946804379437192012-04-23T14:15:00.002+01:002012-06-19T22:37:16.894+01:00Shell’s Wildly Inaccurate Reporting of Niger Delta Oil Spill Exposed<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">"A
major oil spill in the Niger Delta was far worse than Shell previously
admitted, according to an independent assessment obtained by Amnesty
International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development
(CEHRD), which exposes how the oil giant dramatically under-estimated the
quantities involved".......Read the rest of the article </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://saharareporters.com/press-release/shell%E2%80%99s-wildly-inaccurate-reporting-niger-delta-oil-spill-exposed" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">HERE</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.</span>LASULAWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040395997034567500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-78040266186920095782012-04-19T22:18:00.004+01:002012-04-19T22:29:01.167+01:00Interesting Article on Oil Pollution in the Niger-Delta Region of Nigeria<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The Ogoniland region of Nigeria has long been badly polluted by
decades of oil production that has fouled the delta and contaminated drinking
water. A United Nations report has recommended a massive recovery initiative,
but so far the Nigerian government has shown few signs it will agree to the
cleanup project." See<i> </i><a href="http://e360.yale.edu/feature/hopes_fade_for_cleanup_in_nigerias_oil-rich_delta/2517/#.T5B7DfnlPnI.twitter" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Hopes Fade
for Cleanup In Nigeria’s Oil-Rich Delta</span></a><i> </i>for the full
article.</span><br />
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<strong><span>Gbemre v Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited and Others </span></strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">(2005) AHRLR 151 (NgHC 2005)</span><strong></strong></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Mr
Jonah Gbemre (for himself and representing Iwherekan Community in Delta
State, Nigeria) v Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Ltd,
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and Attorney-General of the
Federation</span><strong></strong></div>
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Federal High Court of Nigeria in the Benin Judicial Division, suit FHC/B/CS/53/05, 14 November 2005</div>
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Judge: Nwokorie</div>
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Extracts. </div>
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<em><span>Gas flaring in the course of oil extraction violates the right to life and a healthy environment</span></em></div>
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<strong><span>Environment </span></strong><span>(right to a healthy environment, 6; environmental impact assessment, 6)</span></div>
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<strong><span>Life</span></strong><span> (effect of pollution, 6) </span></div>
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</span><span>[<strong>1.</strong>]
On 21 July 2005 this Court granted leave to the applicants to apply for
an order enforcing or securing the enforcement of their fundamental
rights to life and dignity of human person as provided by sections 33(1)
and 34(1) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999,
and articles 4, 16 and 24 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’
Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap A9 vol 1, Laws of the
Federation of Nigeria, 2004. By a further leave of Court I permitted the
applicant to commence these proceedings for himself and as representing
other members, individuals and residents of Iwherekan community in
Delta State of Nigeria, in view of the copious unwieldly list of members
contained in an earlier application for leave they brought in respect
thereof, which was withdrawn by their counsel at the prompting of the
Court. </span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
[<strong>2.</strong>] The reliefs claimed by the applicants in their subsequent motion on notice filed on 29 July 2005 include:</div>
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<span><span>1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span><span> </span>A
declaration that the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental rights to
life and dignity of human person provided in sections 33(1) and 34(1) of
the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and reinforced by
articles 4, 16 and 24 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’
Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, cap A9, vol1, Laws of the
Federation of Nigeria, 2004 inevitably includes the right to clean
poison-free, pollution-free and healthy environment.</span></div>
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<span><span>2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span><span> </span>A
declaration that the actions of the 1st and 2nd respondents in
continuing to flare gas in the course of their exploration and
production activities in the applicant’s community is a violation of
their fundamental rights to life (including healthy environment) and
dignity of human person guaranteed by sections 33(1) and 34(1) of the
Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and reinforced by
articles 4, 16 and 24 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’
Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, cap A9, vol1, Laws of the
Federation of Nigeria 2004.</span></div>
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<span><span>3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span><span> </span>A
declaration that the failure of the 1st and 2nd respondents to carry
out environmental impact assessment in the applicant’s community
concerning the effects of their gas flaring activities is a violation of
section 2(2) of the Environment Impact Assessment Act, cap E12 vol 6
Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and contributed to the violation
of the applicant’s said fundamental rights to life and dignity of human
person</span></div>
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<span><span>4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span><span> </span>A
declaration that the provisions of section 3(2)(a), (b) of the
Associated Gas Re-injection Act cap A25 vol 1 Laws of the Federation of
Nigeria, 2004 and Section 1 of the Associated Gas Re-Injection
(continued flaring of gas) Regulations Section 1.43 of 1984, under which
the continued flaring of gas in Nigeria may be allowed are inconsistent
with the applicant’s right to life and/or dignity of human person
enshrined in sections 33(1) and 34(1) of the Constitution of Federal
Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and articles 4, 16 and 24 of the African
Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act,
cap A9 vol 1<span> </span>Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and
are therefore unconstitutional, null and void by virtue of section 1(3)
of the same Constitution.</span></div>
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<span><span>5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span><span> </span>An
order of perpetual injunction restraining the 1st and 2nd respondents
by themselves or by their agents, servants, contractors or workers or
otherwise howsoever form further flaring of gas in the applicants said
community.</span></div>
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[<strong>3.</strong>] It is the case of the applicants, as shown in the itemized grounds upon which the above-mentioned reliefs are sought that:</div>
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<span><span>a)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>By
virtue of the provisions of sections 33(1) and 34(1) of the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 they have a
fundamental right to life and dignity of human person.</span></div>
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<span><span>b)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>Also
by virtue of articles 4, 16 and 24 of the African Charter on Human and
Peoples’ [Rights] (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap A9, vol 1 Laws
of Federation of Nigeria, 2004, they have the right to respect for their
lives and dignity of their persons and to enjoy the best attainable
state of physical and mental health as well as right to a general
satisfactory environment favourable to their development.</span></div>
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<span><span>c)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
the gas flaring activities in the community in Delta State of Nigeria
by the 1st and 2nd respondents are a violation of their said fundamental
rights to life and dignity of human person and to a healthy life in a
healthy environment.</span></div>
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<span><span>d)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
no environmental impact assessment was carried out by the 1st and 2nd
respondents concerning their gas flaring activities in the applicant’s
community as required by section 2(2) of the Environmental Impact
Assessment Act, Cap E 12 vol 6, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004,
and this has contributed to the unrestrained, mindless flaring of gas by
the 1st and 2nd respondents in their community in violation of their
said fundamental rights.</span></div>
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<span><span>e)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
no valid ministerial gas flaring certificates were obtained by any of
the 1st and 2nd respondents authorizing the gas flaring in the
applicant’s said community in violation of section 3(2) of the
Associated Gas Re-Injection Act, Cap A25 vol 1, Laws of the Federation
of Nigeria, 2004.</span></div>
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<span><span>f)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
the provisions of section 3(2) of the Associated Gas Re-Injection Act,
Cap A25, vol 1, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004 and section 1 of
the Associated Re-Injection (Continued Flaring of Gas) Regulations, 43
of 1984, under which gas flaring in Nigeria may be continued are
inconsistent with the provisions of sections 33(1) and 34(1) of the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 and articles 4, 16
and 24 of African Charter on Human and Peoples’ [Rights] (Ratification
and Enforcement) are therefore unconstitutional, null and void.</span></div>
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<span><span>g)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
the provisions of both sections 21(1) and (2) of the Federal
Environmental Protection Agency Act (FEPA) Cap F10 vol 1 Laws of the
Federation of Nigeria, 2004 makes the gas flaring activities of the 1st
and 2nd respondents a crime, the continuation of which should be
discouraged and restrained by the Court.</span></div>
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[<strong>4.</strong>]
It is also, in the case of the applicants (as summarised in their
affidavit in verification of all the above-stated facts that they are <br /> <em>bona fide</em> citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria [and]</div>
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<span><span>1.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
the 1st and 2nd respondents are oil and gas companies in Nigeria who
are engaged jointly and severally in the exploration and <br /> <span>production </span>of crude oil and other petroleum products in Nigeria. </span></div>
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<span><span>2.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
in further support of their rights to life and dignity of their persons
they have the right to respect for their lives and dignity of <br />
their persons and to enjoy the best attainable state physical and mental
health as well as right to a general satisfactory environment <br /> favourable to their development.</span></div>
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<span><span>3.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That the 1st and <span>2nd r</span>espondents have been engaged in massive, relentless and continuous gas flaring in their community and that the <br /> <em>2</em><span>nd </span>respondent is a joint venture partner with the 1st <span>r</span>espondent in its oil exploration and production activities, which includes gas-flaring in Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span><span>4.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That the activities of the 1st and 2nd <span>r</span>espondents in continuing to flare gas in their community seriously pollutes the air, causes respiratory <br /> diseases and generally endangers and impairs their health. </span></div>
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<span><span>5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That the 1st and 2nd respondents <span>have </span>carried
on gas flaring continuously in their community without any regard to
its deleterious and ruinous consequences concentrating only on pursuing
their commercial interest and maximizing profit. </span></div>
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<span><span>6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
the 1st and 2nd respondents do not like to find gas together with oil
in their oil-fields (ie associated gas, AG), but prefer to find gas <br />
without it being mixed up with oil - so called non-associated gas (non
AG), and that the attitude of the 1st and 2nd respondents whenever <br />
they find oil mixed with gas is to dispose of the associated gas in
order to profit front the oil (which is the more lucrative component)
and this process of gas flaring is unrestrained and mindless. </span></div>
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<span><span>7.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That burning of gas by flaring same in their community gives rise to the following:<br />
a. Poisons and pollutes the environment as it leads to the emission of
carbon dioxide, the main green house gas; the flares contain a cocktail
of toxins that affect their heath, lives and livelihood.</span></div>
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b. Exposes them to an increased risk of premature death, respiratory illness, asthma and cancer. </div>
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c.
Contributes to adverse climate change as it emits carbon dioxide and
methane which causes warming of the environment, pollutes their food and
water. <br /> d. Causes painful breathing chronic bronchitis, decreased lung function and death. <br /> e. Reduces crop production and adversely impacts on their food security. <br />
f. Causes acid rain, their corrugated house roofs are corroded by the
composition of the rain that falls as a result of gas flaring saying
that the primary causes of acid rain are emissions of sulphur dioxide
and nitrogen oxides which combine with atmospheric moisture to form
sulphuric moisture to form sulphuric acid and nitric acid respectively.
The acidic rain consequently acidifies their lakes and streams arid
damages their vegetation. </div>
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<span><span>8.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
the emissions resulting from the 1st and 2nd respondents burning of
associated gas by flaring in their community in an open uncontrolled
manner is a mixture of smoke more precisely referred to particulate
matter, combustion by-products including sulphur dioxide, nitrogen
dioxides and carcinogenic substances, all of which are very dangerous to
human health and lives in particular. </span></div>
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<span><span>9.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
no Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) whatsoever was undertaken by
any of the 1st and 2nd respondents lo ascertain the harmful consequences
of their gas flaring activities in the area to the environment, health,
food, water, development, lives, infrastructure etc. </span></div>
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<span><span>10.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That if the 1st and 2nd <span>r</span>espondents
had carried out environmental impact assessment in their community
concerning this gas flaring as required by law, they would have known or
found out that it is most dangerous to their health, life and
environment and refrained from gas flaring and that they deliberately
failed to so out of their selfish economic interest. </span></div>
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<span><span>11.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
so many natives of the community have died and countless others are
suffering various sicknesses occasioned by the effects of gas flaring by
the 1st and 2nd defendants.</span></div>
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<span><span>12.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
their community is thereby grossly undeveloped, very poor and without
adequate medical facilities to cope with the adverse and harmful effects
on their health and lives occasioned by the unrestrained gas flaring
activities in the area. </span></div>
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<span><span>13.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
the 1st and 2nd respondents have not bothered to consider the negative
unhealthy and very damaging impact on their health, lives, and
environment of their persistent gas flaring activities and have made no
arrangements to provide them with adequate medical attention and
facilities to cushion the adverse effects of their gas flaring
activities.</span></div>
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<span><span>14.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That
the constitutional guarantee of right to life and dignity of human
person available to them as citizens of Nigeria includes the right to a <br />
clean, poison-free and pollution-free air and healthy environment
conducive for human beings to reside in for our development and full
enjoyment of life; and that these rights to life and dignity of human
person have been and are being wantonly violated and are continuously
threatened with persistent violation by these gas flaring activities.</span></div>
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<span><span>15.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>That unless this Court promptly intervenes their said fundamental rights being breached by the 1st and 2nd <span>r</span>espondents will continue <br /> unabated <span>and </span>with impunity while its members will continue to suffer various sicknesses, deterioration of health and premature death. </span></div>
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<span><span>16.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>And
that the 1st and 2nd respondents have no right to continue to engage in
gas-flaring in violation of their right to life and to a clean, <br /> healthy, pollution-free environment and dignity of human person </span></div>
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Finally,
that the 1st and 2nd respondents have no valid ministerial certificates
authorizing them to flare gas in the applicant’s community.</div>
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[<strong>5.</strong>]
Upon a thorough evaluation of all the processes, submission, judicial
and statutory authorities as well as the nature of the subject matter
together with the urgency which both parties through their counsel have
observably treated the weighty issued raised in the substantive claim, I
find, myself able to hold as follows (after a thoroughly painstaking
consideration):</div>
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<span><span>1.</span></span><span>That
the applicants were properly granted leave to institute these
proceedings in a representative capacity for himself and for each and
every member of the Iweherekan Community in Delta State of Nigeria.</span></div>
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<span><span>2.</span></span><span>That this Court has the inherent jurisdiction to grant leave to the applicants who are <em>bona fide</em>
citizens and residents of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to apply for
the enforcement of their fundamental rights to life and dignity of the
human person as guaranteed by sections 33 and 34 of the Constitution of
the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999.</span></div>
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<span><span>3.</span></span><span>That
these constitutionally guaranteed rights inevitably include the right
to clean, poison-free, pollution-free healthy environment.</span></div>
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<span><span>4.</span></span><span>The
actions of the 1st and 2nd respondents in continuing to flare gas in
the course of their oil exploration and production activities in the
applicants’ community is a gross violation of their fundamental right to
life (including healthy environment) and dignity of human person as
enshrined in the Constitution.</span></div>
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<span><span>5.</span></span><span>Failure
of the 1st and 2nd respondents to carry out environmental impact
assessment in the applicants’ community concerning the effects of their
gas flaring activities is a clear violation of section 2(2) of the
Environmental Impact Assessment Act, cap E12 vol 6, Laws of the
Federation of Nigeria 2004, and has contributed to a further violation
of the said fundamental rights.</span></div>
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<span><span>6.</span></span><span>That
section 3(2)(a) and (b) of the Associated Gas Re-Injection Act and
section 1 of the Associated Gas Re-Injection (Continued Flaring of Gas)
Regulations section 1.43 of 1984, under which gas flaring in Nigeria may
be allowed are inconsistent with the applicant’s rights to life and/or
dignity of human person enshrined in sections 33(1) and 34(1) of the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 and articles 4, 16
and 24 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
(Ratification and Enforcement) Act, cap A9, vol 1, Laws of the
Federation of Nigeria, 2004) and are therefore unconstitutional, null
and void by virtue of section 1(3) of the same Constitution. </span></div>
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[<strong>6.</strong>]
Based on the above findings, the reliefs claimed by the applicants as
stated in their motion paper as 1, 2, 3, 4 are hereby granted as I make
and repeat the specific declarations contained there as the final orders
of the Court: </div>
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[<em>for reliefs 1-4 see para 2 above – eds</em>]</div>
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<span><span>5.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>I
hereby order that the 1st and 2nd respondents are accordingly
restrained whether by themselves, their servants or workers or otherwise
from further flaring of gas in applicants’ community and are to take
immediate steps to stop the further flaring of gas in the applicant’s
community</span></div>
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<span><span>6.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>The
Honorable Attorney-General of the Federation and Ministry of Justice,
3rd respondent in these proceedings who, regrettably, did not put up any
appearance, and/or defend these proceedings is hereby ordered to
immediately set into motion, after due consultation with the Federal
Executive Council, necessary processes for the Enactment of a Bill for
an Act of the National Assembly for the speedy amendment of the relevant
sections of the Associated Gas Re-Injection Act and the Regulations
made there under to quickly bring them in line with the provisions of
chapter 4 of the Constitution, especially in view of the fact that the
Associated Gas Re-Injection Act even by itself also makes the said
continuous gas flaring a crime having prescribed penalties in respect
thereof.<span> </span>Accordingly, the case as put forward by the 1st
and 2nd respondents as well as their various preliminary objections are
hereby dismissed as lacking merit.</span></div>
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<span><span>7.<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span>This is the final judgment of the Court and I make no award of damages, costs or compensations whatsoever.</span></div>
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Environmental
Impact Assessment Decree</div>
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<span style="color: green;">N<u>o</u> 86 of 1992</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Laws
of the Federation of Nigeria</span></div>
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<b>The
Federal Military Government</b> hereby decrees as follow: -</div>
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">Part
I</span></div>
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General
Principles of Environmental Impact Assessment</div>
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<b>1.</b>
The objectives of any environmental Impact assessment (hereafter in this Decree
referred to as "the Assessment") shall be -</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>to establish before a decision taken by any person, authority corporate
body or unincorporated body including the Government of the Federation, State or
Local Government intending to undertake or authorise the undertaking of any
activity that may likely or to a significant extent affect the environment or
have environmental effects on those activities shall first be taken into
account;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)
</span>to promote the implementation of appropriate policy in all Federal Lands
(however acquired) States and Local Government Areas consistent with all laws
and decision making processes through which the goal and objective in paragraph
(a) of this section may be realised;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)
</span>to encourage the development of procedures for information exchange,
notification and consultation between organs and persons when proposed
activities are likely to have significant environmental affects on boundary or
trans-state or on the environment of bordering towns and villages.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2.
</b><span style="color: blue;">(1)
</span>The public or private sector of the economy shall not undertake or embark
on public or authorise projects or activities without prior consideration, at an
early stages, or their environmental effects.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)
</span>Where the extent, nature or location of a proposed project or activity is
such that is likely to significantly affect the environment, its environmental
impact assessment shall be undertaken in accordance with the provisions of this
Decree.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(3)
</span>The criterion and procedure under this Decree shall be used to determine
whether an activity is likely to significantly affect the environment and is
therefore subject to an environmental impact assessment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(4)
</span>All agencies, institutions (whether public or private) except exempted
pursuant to this Decree, shall before embarking on the proposed project apply in
writing to the Agency, so that subject activities can be quickly and surely
identified and environmental assessment applied as the activities being planned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>3.
</b><span style="color: blue;">(1)
</span>In identifying the environmental impact assessment process under this
Decree, the relevant significant environmental issues shall be identified and
studied before commencing or embarking on any project or activity covered by the
provisions of this Decree or covered by the Agency or likely to have serious
environmental impact on the Nigerian environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)
</span>Where appropriate, all efforts shall be made to identify all
environmental issues at an early step in the process.</span></div>
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<b>4.
</b>An environmental impact assessment shall include at least the following
minimum matters, that is -</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>a description of the proposed activities;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)
</span>a description of the potential affected environment including specific
information necessary to identify and assess the environmental effects of the
proposed activities;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)
</span>a description of the practical activities, as appropriate;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(d)
</span>an assessment of the likely or potential environmental impacts on the
proposed activity and the alternatives, including the direct or indirect
cumulative, short-term and tong-term effects:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(e)</span>
an identification and description of measures available to mitigate adverse
environmental impacts of proposed activity and assessment of those measures;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;"> (f)
</span>an indication of gaps in knowledge and uncertainly which may be
encountered in computing the required information:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(g)
</span>an indication of whether the environment of any other State, Local
Government Area or areas outside Nigeria is likely to be affected by the
proposed activity or its alternatives;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(h)
</span>a brief and non technical summary of the information provided under
paragraph (a) to (g) of this section.</span></div>
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<b>5.
</b>The environmental effects in an environmental assessment shall be assessed
with a degree of detail commensuration with their likely environmental
significance.</div>
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<b>6.
</b>The information provided as of environmental impact assessment shall be
examined impartially by the Agency prior to any decision to be made thereto
(whether in favour or adverse thereto).</div>
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<b>7.</b>
Before the Agency gives a decision on an activity to which an environmental
assessment has been produced, the Agency shall give opportunity to government
agencies, members of the public, experts in any relevant discipline and
interested groups to make comment on environmental impact assessment of the
activity.</div>
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<b>8.
</b>The Agency shall not give a decision as to whether a proposed activity
should be authorised or undertaken until appropriate period has elapsed to
consider comments pursuant to sections 7 and 12 of this Decree.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>9.
</b><span style="color: blue;">(1)
</span>The Agency's decisions on any proposed activity subject to environmental
impact assessment shall -</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>be in writing;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)
</span>state the reason therefor;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)
</span>include the provisions, if any, to prevent, reduce or instigate damage to
the environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)
</span>The report of the Agency shall be made available to interested person or
group.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(3)
</span>If no interested person or group requested for the report, it shall be
the duty of the Agency to publish its decision in a manner by which members of
the public or persons interested in the activity shall be notified.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(4)
</span>The Council may determine an appropriate method in which the decision of
the Agency shall be published so as to reach interested persons or groups, in
particular the originators or persons interested in the activity subject of the
decision.</span></div>
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<b>10.
</b>When the Council deems fit and appropriate, a decision on an activity which
has been subject of environmental impact assessment, the activity and its
effects on the environment or the provisions of section 9 of this decree shall
be subject to appropriate supervision.</div>
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<b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>11.</b>
<span style="color: blue;">(1)</span> <span style="color: blue;">
</span>When information provided as part of environmental impart assessment
indicates that the Environment within another State in the Federation or a Local
Government Area is likely to be significantly affected by a proposed activity,
the State, the Local Government Area in which the activity is being panned
shall, to the extent possible -</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>notify the potentially affected State or Local Government of the proposed
activity;</span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)</span>
transmit to the affected State or Local Government Area any relevant information
of the environmental impact assessment:</span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)
</span>enter into timely consultations with the affected State or Local
Government.</span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)
</span>It shall be the duty of the Agency to see that the provisions of
subsection (1) of this section are complied with and the Agency may cause the
consultations provided pursuant to subsection (1) of this section to take place
in order to investigate any environmental derogation or hazard that may occur
during the construction or process of the activity concerned.</span></div>
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<b>
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<b>12.
</b><u>Editorial Note:</u> there is no section 12 within this Decree.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>13.</b>
<span style="color: blue;">(1)</span>
When a project is described on the Mandatory Study List specified in the
Schedule to this Decree or is referred to mediation or a review panel, no
Federal, State or Local Government or any of their authority or agency Shall
exercise any power or perform any duty or functions that would permit the
project to be carried out in whole or in part until the Agency has taken a cause
of action conducive to its power under the Act establishing it or has taken a
decision or issue an order that the project could be carried out with or without
conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)</span>
Where the Agency has given certain conditions before the carrying out of the
project, the conditions shall be fulfilled before any person or authority shall
embark on the project.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">Part
II</span></div>
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Environmental
Assessment of Projects</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>14.</b><span style="color: blue;">
(1) </span>Notwithstanding
the provisions of Part I of this Decree, an environmental impact assessment
shall be required where a Federal, State or Local Government Agency Authority
established by the Federal, State or Local Government Council -</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>is the proponent of the project and does any act or thing which commits
the Federal, State or Local Government authority to carrying out the project in
whole or, impact;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)</span>
makes or authorises payment or provides a guarantee for a loan or any other form
of financial assistance to the proponent for the purpose of enabling the project
to be carried out in whole or in part, except when the financial assistance is
in the form of any reduction, avoidance, deferral, removed, refund remission or
other form of relief from the payment of any tax, duty or excise under Customs
Tariff (Consolidated) Act or any Order made thereunder, unless that financial
assistance is provided for the purpose of enabling an individual project
specifically named in the enactment, regulation or order that provides the
relief to be carried out;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)</span>
<span style="color: #7f007f;"> </span>has
the administration of Federal, State or Local Government and leases or otherwise
disposes of those lands on or any tests in those lands or transfers the
administration and control of those lands or invest therein in favour of the
Federal Government or its agencies for the purpose of enabling the project to be
carried out in whole or in part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(d)</span>
under the provisions of any law or enactment, issues a permit or licence, grants
an approval or takes any other action for the purpose of enabling the project to
be carried out in whole or in part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>15.</b>
<span style="color: blue;">(1)</span>
An environmental assessment of project shall not be required where -</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>in the opinion of the Agency the project is in the list of projects which
the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces or the Council is of the
opinion that the environmental effects of the project is likely to be minimal;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)</span>
<span style="color: #7f007f;"> </span>the
project is to be carried out during national emergency for which temporary
measures have been taken by the Government;</span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)</span>
the project is to be carried out in response to circumstances that, in the
opinion of the Agency, the project is in the interest of public health or
safety.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)
</span> For
greater certainly, where the Federal, State or Local Government exercises power
or performs a duty or function for the purpose of enabling projects to be
carried out an environmental assessment may not be required if -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
the project has been identified at the time the power is exercised or the duty
or function is performed; and</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">the Federal, State, or Local
Government has no power to exercise any duly or perform functions in relation to
the projects after they have been identified.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">16.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Whenever the Agency decides, that there is the need for an environmental
assessment on a project before the commencement of the project the environmental
assessment process may include -
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a screening or mandatory study and the preparation of a screening report;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>a
mandatory or assessment by a review panel as provided in section 25 of this
Decree and the preparation of a report;
</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
design and implementation of a follow-up program.
</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">17.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Every
screening or mandatory study of a project and every mediation or assessment by a
review panel shall include a consideration of the following factors, that is –
</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the environmental effects of the project, including the environmental effects of
malfunctions or accidents that may occur in connection with the project and any
cumulative environmental effects that are likely to result from the project in
taking into consideration with other projects, that that have been or will be
carried out;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the significance or, in the case of projects referred to in section 43 44 or 45,
the seriousness of those effects;
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</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">comments
concerning those effects received from the public, accordance with provisions of
this Decree;
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
measures that are technically and economically feasible and that would mitigate
any significant or, in the case of projects referred to in sections 43, 44, or
45 any serious adverse environmental effects of the project.
</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
In addition to the factors set out in subsection (1) of this Decree every
mandatory study of a project and every mediation or assessment by review panel
shall include a consideration of the following factors, that is –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>the
purpose of the project;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>alternative
means of carrying out the project that are technically and economically feasible
and the environmental effects of any such alternative means;
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>the
need for and the requirements of any follow-up program in respect of the
project;
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the short-term or tong term capacity for regeneration of renewal resources that
are likely to be significantly or, in the case of the projects referred to in
sections 43, 44 or 45, seriously affected by the project; and
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(e)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">any
other matter that the Agency or the Council at the request of the Agency, may re
require.
</span></div>
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</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
For greater certainty, the scope of the factors to be taken into consideration
pursuant to subsection (1) (a), (b) and (d) and subsection (2) (b), (c) and (d)
of this Decree shall be determined –
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
by the Agency; or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
where a project is referred to mediation or a review panel, by the Council,
after consulting with the Agency, when fixing the terms of reference of the
mediation or review panel.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(4)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
An environmental assessment of a project shall not be required to include a
consideration of the environmental effects that could result from carrying out
the project during the declaration of a national emergency.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">18.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
The Agency may delegate any part of the screening or mandatory study of a
project, including the preparation of the screening report or mandatory study
report, but shall not delegate the duly to take a course of action pursuant to
section 16(1) or 34(1) of this Decree.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
For greater certainty, the Agency shall not take a course of action pursuant to
section16 (1) or 34(1) unless it is satisfied that any duty or function
delegated pursuant to subsection (1) thereof has been carried out in accordance
with provisions of this Decree or any relevant enactment.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">19.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Agency is of the opinion that a project is not described in the
mandatory study list or any exclusion list, the Agency shall ensure that –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a screening of the project is conducted; and
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a screening report is prepared.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Any available information may be used in conducting the screening of a project,
but where the Agency is of the opinion that the information available is not
adequate to enable it to take a course of action pursuant to section 16(1) of
this Decree it shall ensure that any study and information that it considers
necessary for that purpose are undertaken or collected.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">20.</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
(1) </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Where
the Agency receives a screening report and the Agency is of the opinion that the
report could be used as a method of conducting screening of other project within
the same class, the agency may declare the report to be a class screening
report.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Any
declaration made pursuant to subsection (1) of this Decree shall be published in
the Gazette and the screening report to which it relates shall be made available
to the public at the registry maintained by the Agency.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Where
in the opinion of the Agency a project or part of a project is within a class in
respect of which a class screening report has been declared, the Agency may use
or permit the use of that report and the screening on which it is based to
whatever extent the Agency considers appropriate for the purpose of complying
with section13 of this Decree.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(4)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Agency uses or permits the use of a class screening report, it shall
ensure that any adjustments are made that in the opinion of Agency are necessary
to take into account Local circumstances and any cumulative environmental
efforts that in the opinion of the Agency are likely to result from the project
in combination with other project that have been or will be carried out.
</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -75px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">21.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a proponent proposes to carry out, in whole or in part a project for which
a screening report has been prepared but the project did not proceed or the
manner in which it is to be carried out has subsequently changed or where a
proponent seeks the renewal of a licence, permit or approval referred to in
section 5(d) of this Decree in respect of a project for which a screening report
has been prepared, the Agency may use or permit the use of that report and the
screening on which it is based to whatever extent the Agency considers
appropriate for the purpose of complying with section 13 of this Decree.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Agency uses or permits the use of a screening or screening report
pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the Agency shall ensure that any
adjustments are made that in its opinion are necessary to take into account any
significant changes in the circumstances of the project.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">22.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>After
completion of a screening report in respect of a project, the Agency shall take
one of the following courses of action, that is –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
where, in the opinion of the Agency;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects, or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any such effect can be mitigated,
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Agency may exercise any power or perform any duty or function that would
permit the project to be carried out and shall ensure that any mitigation
measures that the Agency considers appropriate are implemented;
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>where,
in the opinion of the Agency;
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects that
may not be mitigable; or
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
public concerns respecting the environmental effects of the project warrant it,
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Agency; shall refer the project to the Council for a referral to mediation
or a review panel in accordance with section 25 of this Decree; or
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>where,
in the opinion of the Agency, the project is likely to cause significant adverse
environmental effects that cannot be mitigated, the Agency shall not exercise
any power or perform any duty or function conferred on it under any enactment
that would permit the project to be carried out in whole or in part.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>For
greater certainty, where the Agency takes a course of action referred to in
subsection (1) (a) of this section, the Agency shall exercise any power and
perform any duly or function conferred on it by or under any enactment in a
manner that ensure that any mitigation measures that the Agency considers
appropriate in respect of the project are implemented.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Before
taking a course of action in relation to a project pursuant to subsection (1) of
this section, the Agency shall give the public an opportunity to examine and
comment on the screening report and any record that has been filed in the public
registry established in respect of the project pursuant to section 51 of this
Decree and shall take into consideration any comments that are filed.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">23.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Agency is of the opinion that a program is described in the mandatory
study list, the Agency shall –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
ensure that a mandatory study is conducted, and a mandatory study report is
prepared and submitted to the Agency, in accordance with the provisions of this
Decree; or
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">refer
the project to the Council for a referral to mediation or a review panel in
accordance with section 25 of this Decree.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -75px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">24.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a proponent proposes to carry out, in whole or in part, a project for
which a mandatory study report has been prepared but the project did not proceed
or the manner in which it is to be carried out has subsequently changed, or
where a proponent seeks the renewal of a licence, permit or approval referred to
in section 5(d) of this Decree in respect of a project for which a mandatory
study report has been prepared, the Agency may use or permit the use of that
report and the mandatory study on which it is based to whatever extent the
Agency considers appropriate for the purpose of complying with section 17 of
this Decree.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Agency uses or permits the use of a mandatory study or a mandatory
study report pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, it shall ensure that
any adjustments are made that in its opinion are necessary to take into account
any significant changes i
n the circumstances of the project.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">25.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
After receiving a mandatory study report in respect of a project, the Agency
shall, in any manner it considers appropriate, publish in a notice setting out
the following information –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>the
date on which the mandatory study report shall be available to the public;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the place at which copies of the report may be obtained; and
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the deadline and address for filing comments on the conclusions and
recommendations of the report.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Prior to the deadline set out in the notice published by the Agency, any person
may file comments with the Agency relating to the conclusions and
recommendations of the mandatory study report.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">26.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<b> </b>After taking into consideration the
mandatory study report and any comments filed pursuant to section 19(2), the
Council shall –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
refer the project to mediation or a review panel in accordance with section 25
of this Decree where, in the opinion of the Council -
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: green;"> </span>the
project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects that may
not be mitigable; or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
public concerns respecting the environmental effects of the project warrant. it;
or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
refer the project back to the Agency for action to be taken under section
34(l)(a) of this Decree where, in the opinion of the Council –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects; or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any such effects can be mitigated.
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">27.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where at any time the Agency is of the opinion that –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects that may
not be mitigable; or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
public concerns respecting the environmental effects of the project warrant it,
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Agency may refer the project to the Council for a referral to mediation or
review panel in accordance with section 25 of this Decree.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">28.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where at any time the Agency decides not to exercise any power or perform any
duty or function referred to in section 19 of this Decree in relation to a
project that has not been referred to mediation or a review panel, it may
terminate the environmental assessment of that project.
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">29.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where at any time the Agency decides not to exercise any power or perform any
duty or function referred to in section 25 of this Decree in relation to a
project that has been referred to mediation or a review panel, the Council may
terminate the environmental assessment of the project.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">30.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where at any time the Council is of the opinion that –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects that may
not be mitigable, or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
public concerns respecting the environmental effects of the project Warrant it,
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Council may, after consultation with the Agency, refer the project to
mediation or a review panel in accordance with section 25 of this Decree.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">31.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<b> </b>Where a project is to be referred to
mediation or a review panel under this Decree, the Council shall, within a
prescribed period, refer the Council project –
</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to
mediation, if the Council is satisfied that -
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the parties who are directly affected by or have direct interest in the project
have been identified and are willing to participle in the mediation through
representatives, and
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the mediation is likely to produce a result that is satisfactory to all of the
parties: or
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span>
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to
a review panel, in any other case.
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">32.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a project is referred to mediation, the Council shall, in consultation
with the Agency –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
appoint as mediator any person who, in the opinion of the Council possesses the
required knowledge or experience; and
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
fix the terms of reference of the mediation.
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">33.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
In the case of a dispute respecting the participation of parties in a mediation,
the Council may, on the request of the mediation, determine those parties who
are directly affected by or have a direct interest in the project.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Any determination by the Council pursuant to subsection (1) of this section
shall be binding
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">34.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A mediator shall not proceed with a mediation unless the mediator is satisfied
that all of the information required for a mediation is available to all of the
participants.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A mediation shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Decree, and the
terms of reference of the mediation –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>help
the participants to reach a consensus on
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the environmental effects that are likely to result from the project,
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any measures that would mitigate any significant adverse environmental effects,
and
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(iii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
an appropriate follow-up program;
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
prepare a report setting out the conclusions and recommendations of the
participants; and
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
submit the report to the Council and the Agency.
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">35.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where at any time after a project has been referred to mediation the Council is
of the opinion that the mediation is not likely to produce a result that is
"satisfactory to all parties, the Council may terminate the mediation and
refer the project to a review panel.
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">36.
</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
a project is referred to a review panel, the Council shall, in consultation with
the Agency –
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
appoint as members of the panel including the Chairman thereof, persons who, in
the opinion of the Council, possess the required knowledge or experience; and
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span>fix the term of reference of the panel.
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">37.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A review panel shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Decree and its
terms of reference –
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</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
ensure that the information required for an assessment by a review panel is
obtained and made available to the public;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>hold
hearing in a manner that offers the public an opportunity to participate in the
assessment;
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Prepare a report setting out –
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the conclusions and recommendations of the panel relating to the environmental
effects of the project and any mitigation measures or follow-up program, and
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a summary of any comments received from the public; and
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Submit the report to the Council and the Agency.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">38.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>A
review panel shall be the power of summoning any person to appear as witness
before the panel and or ordering the witness to –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
give evidence, orally or in writing; and
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
produce such documents or things as the panel consider necessary for conducting
its assessment of the project.
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A review panel shall have the same power to enforce the attendance of witnesses
and to compel them to give evidence and produce documents and other things as is
vested in the Federal High Court or a High Court of a State.
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A hearing by review panel shall be in public unless the panel is satisfied after
representation made by a witness that specific, direct and substantial harm
would be caused to the witness by the disclosure of the evidence, documents or
other things that the witness is ordered to give or produce pursuant to
subsection (1) of this section.
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(4)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a review panel is satisfied that the disclosure of evidence documents or
other things would cause specific, direct and substantial harm, to a witness,
the evidence, documents or things shall be privileged and shall not, without the
authorization of the witness, knowingly be or be permitted to be communicated,
disclosed or made available by any person who has obtained the evidence,
documents or other things pursuant to this Decree.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(5)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Any summons issued or order made by a review panel pursuant to subsection (1) of
this section may, for the purposes of enforcement, be made a summons or order of
the Federal High Court by following the usual practice and procedure.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">39.
</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">On
receiving a report submitted by a mediator or a review panel, the Agency shall
make the report available to the public in any manner the Council considers
appropriate and shall advise the public that the report is available.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">40.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Following
the submission of a report by a mediator or a review panel or the referral of a
project back to the Agency pursuant to section 30(b) of this Decree, the Agency
shall take one of the following courses of action in relation to the project,
that is –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
where in the opinion of the Agency -
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: green;"> </span>the
project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effect, or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">any
such effect can be mitigated or justified in the circumstances,
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Agency may exercise any power or perform any duty or function that would
permit the project to be carried out in whole or in part and shall ensure that
any mitigation measures that the Agency considers appropriate are implemented;
or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">where,
in the opinion of the Agency, the project is likely to cause significant adverse
environmental effects that cannot be mitigated and cannot be justified in the
circumstances, the Agency shall not exercise any power or perform any duty or
function conferred on it by or under any enactment that would permit the project
to be carried out in whole or in part.
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
For greater certainty, where the Agency takes a course of action referred to in
subsection (1) (a) of this section, it shall exercise any power and perform any
duty or function conferred on it by or under any enactment in a manner that
ensures that any mitigation measure that the Agency considers appropriate in
respect of the project is implemented.
</span></div>
<b>
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Environmental
Impact Assessment Decree No. 86 1992</div>
</b>
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<i>
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Commencement.
10<sup>th</sup> December1992</div>
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<b>
</b><div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b>The
Federal Military Government</b> hereby decrees as follow: -</div>
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</span><b>
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">Part
I</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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General
Principles of Environmental Impact Assessment</div>
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<b>
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<b>1.</b>
The objectives of any environmental Impact assessment (hereafter in this Decree
referred to as "the Assessment") shall be -</div>
</span>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>to establish before a decision taken by any person, authority corporate
body or unincorporated body including the Government of the Federation, State or
Local Government intending to undertake or authorise the undertaking of any
activity that may likely or to a significant extent affect the environment or
have environmental effects on those activities shall first be taken into
account;</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)
</span>to promote the implementation of appropriate policy in all Federal Lands
(however acquired) States and Local Government Areas consistent with all laws
and decision making processes through which the goal and objective in paragraph
(a) of this section may be realised;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)
</span>to encourage the development of procedures for information exchange,
notification and consultation between organs and persons when proposed
activities are likely to have significant environmental affects on boundary or
trans-state or on the environment of bordering towns and villages.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</div>
<b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2.
</b><span style="color: blue;">(1)
</span>The public or private sector of the economy shall not undertake or embark
on public or authorise projects or activities without prior consideration, at an
early stages, or their environmental effects.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)
</span>Where the extent, nature or location of a proposed project or activity is
such that is likely to significantly affect the environment, its environmental
impact assessment shall be undertaken in accordance with the provisions of this
Decree.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(3)
</span>The criterion and procedure under this Decree shall be used to determine
whether an activity is likely to significantly affect the environment and is
therefore subject to an environmental impact assessment.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(4)
</span>All agencies, institutions (whether public or private) except exempted
pursuant to this Decree, shall before embarking on the proposed project apply in
writing to the Agency, so that subject activities can be quickly and surely
identified and environmental assessment applied as the activities being planned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>3.
</b><span style="color: blue;">(1)
</span>In identifying the environmental impact assessment process under this
Decree, the relevant significant environmental issues shall be identified and
studied before commencing or embarking on any project or activity covered by the
provisions of this Decree or covered by the Agency or likely to have serious
environmental impact on the Nigerian environment.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)
</span>Where appropriate, all efforts shall be made to identify all
environmental issues at an early step in the process.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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<b>4.
</b>An environmental impact assessment shall include at least the following
minimum matters, that is -</div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>a description of the proposed activities;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)
</span>a description of the potential affected environment including specific
information necessary to identify and assess the environmental effects of the
proposed activities;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)
</span>a description of the practical activities, as appropriate;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(d)
</span>an assessment of the likely or potential environmental impacts on the
proposed activity and the alternatives, including the direct or indirect
cumulative, short-term and tong-term effects:</span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(e)</span>
an identification and description of measures available to mitigate adverse
environmental impacts of proposed activity and assessment of those measures;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;"> (f)
</span>an indication of gaps in knowledge and uncertainly which may be
encountered in computing the required information:</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(g)
</span>an indication of whether the environment of any other State, Local
Government Area or areas outside Nigeria is likely to be affected by the
proposed activity or its alternatives;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(h)
</span>a brief and non technical summary of the information provided under
paragraph (a) to (g) of this section.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<b>
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<b>5.
</b>The environmental effects in an environmental assessment shall be assessed
with a degree of detail commensuration with their likely environmental
significance.</div>
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<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>6.
</b>The information provided as of environmental impact assessment shall be
examined impartially by the Agency prior to any decision to be made thereto
(whether in favour or adverse thereto).</div>
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<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>7.</b>
Before the Agency gives a decision on an activity to which an environmental
assessment has been produced, the Agency shall give opportunity to government
agencies, members of the public, experts in any relevant discipline and
interested groups to make comment on environmental impact assessment of the
activity.</div>
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<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>8.
</b>The Agency shall not give a decision as to whether a proposed activity
should be authorised or undertaken until appropriate period has elapsed to
consider comments pursuant to sections 7 and 12 of this Decree.</div>
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<b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>9.
</b><span style="color: blue;">(1)
</span>The Agency's decisions on any proposed activity subject to environmental
impact assessment shall -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>be in writing;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)
</span>state the reason therefor;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)
</span>include the provisions, if any, to prevent, reduce or instigate damage to
the environment.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)
</span>The report of the Agency shall be made available to interested person or
group.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(3)
</span>If no interested person or group requested for the report, it shall be
the duty of the Agency to publish its decision in a manner by which members of
the public or persons interested in the activity shall be notified.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(4)
</span>The Council may determine an appropriate method in which the decision of
the Agency shall be published so as to reach interested persons or groups, in
particular the originators or persons interested in the activity subject of the
decision.</span></div>
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<b>
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<b>10.
</b>When the Council deems fit and appropriate, a decision on an activity which
has been subject of environmental impact assessment, the activity and its
effects on the environment or the provisions of section 9 of this decree shall
be subject to appropriate supervision.</div>
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</div>
<b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>11.</b>
<span style="color: blue;">(1)</span> <span style="color: blue;">
</span>When information provided as part of environmental impart assessment
indicates that the Environment within another State in the Federation or a Local
Government Area is likely to be significantly affected by a proposed activity,
the State, the Local Government Area in which the activity is being panned
shall, to the extent possible -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>notify the potentially affected State or Local Government of the proposed
activity;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)</span>
transmit to the affected State or Local Government Area any relevant information
of the environmental impact assessment:</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)
</span>enter into timely consultations with the affected State or Local
Government.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)
</span>It shall be the duty of the Agency to see that the provisions of
subsection (1) of this section are complied with and the Agency may cause the
consultations provided pursuant to subsection (1) of this section to take place
in order to investigate any environmental derogation or hazard that may occur
during the construction or process of the activity concerned.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>12.
</b><u>Editorial Note:</u> there is no section 12 within this Decree.</div>
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<b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>13.</b>
<span style="color: blue;">(1)</span>
When a project is described on the Mandatory Study List specified in the
Schedule to this Decree or is referred to mediation or a review panel, no
Federal, State or Local Government or any of their authority or agency Shall
exercise any power or perform any duty or functions that would permit the
project to be carried out in whole or in part until the Agency has taken a cause
of action conducive to its power under the Act establishing it or has taken a
decision or issue an order that the project could be carried out with or without
conditions.</span></div>
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)</span>
Where the Agency has given certain conditions before the carrying out of the
project, the conditions shall be fulfilled before any person or authority shall
embark on the project.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>
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</b></span><b>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">Part
II</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
Environmental
Assessment of Projects</div>
</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>14.</b><span style="color: blue;">
(1) </span>Notwithstanding
the provisions of Part I of this Decree, an environmental impact assessment
shall be required where a Federal, State or Local Government Agency Authority
established by the Federal, State or Local Government Council -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>is the proponent of the project and does any act or thing which commits
the Federal, State or Local Government authority to carrying out the project in
whole or, impact;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)</span>
makes or authorises payment or provides a guarantee for a loan or any other form
of financial assistance to the proponent for the purpose of enabling the project
to be carried out in whole or in part, except when the financial assistance is
in the form of any reduction, avoidance, deferral, removed, refund remission or
other form of relief from the payment of any tax, duty or excise under Customs
Tariff (Consolidated) Act or any Order made thereunder, unless that financial
assistance is provided for the purpose of enabling an individual project
specifically named in the enactment, regulation or order that provides the
relief to be carried out;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)</span>
<span style="color: #7f007f;"> </span>has
the administration of Federal, State or Local Government and leases or otherwise
disposes of those lands on or any tests in those lands or transfers the
administration and control of those lands or invest therein in favour of the
Federal Government or its agencies for the purpose of enabling the project to be
carried out in whole or in part.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(d)</span>
under the provisions of any law or enactment, issues a permit or licence, grants
an approval or takes any other action for the purpose of enabling the project to
be carried out in whole or in part.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>15.</b>
<span style="color: blue;">(1)</span>
An environmental assessment of project shall not be required where -</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(a)
</span>in the opinion of the Agency the project is in the list of projects which
the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces or the Council is of the
opinion that the environmental effects of the project is likely to be minimal;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(b)</span>
<span style="color: #7f007f;"> </span>the
project is to be carried out during national emergency for which temporary
measures have been taken by the Government;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #7f007f;">(c)</span>
the project is to be carried out in response to circumstances that, in the
opinion of the Agency, the project is in the interest of public health or
safety.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">(2)
</span> For
greater certainly, where the Federal, State or Local Government exercises power
or performs a duty or function for the purpose of enabling projects to be
carried out an environmental assessment may not be required if -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
the project has been identified at the time the power is exercised or the duty
or function is performed; and</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">the Federal, State, or Local
Government has no power to exercise any duly or perform functions in relation to
the projects after they have been identified.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">16.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Whenever the Agency decides, that there is the need for an environmental
assessment on a project before the commencement of the project the environmental
assessment process may include -
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a screening or mandatory study and the preparation of a screening report;
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>a
mandatory or assessment by a review panel as provided in section 25 of this
Decree and the preparation of a report;
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
design and implementation of a follow-up program.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">17.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Every
screening or mandatory study of a project and every mediation or assessment by a
review panel shall include a consideration of the following factors, that is –
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the environmental effects of the project, including the environmental effects of
malfunctions or accidents that may occur in connection with the project and any
cumulative environmental effects that are likely to result from the project in
taking into consideration with other projects, that that have been or will be
carried out;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the significance or, in the case of projects referred to in section 43 44 or 45,
the seriousness of those effects;
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">comments
concerning those effects received from the public, accordance with provisions of
this Decree;
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
measures that are technically and economically feasible and that would mitigate
any significant or, in the case of projects referred to in sections 43, 44, or
45 any serious adverse environmental effects of the project.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
In addition to the factors set out in subsection (1) of this Decree every
mandatory study of a project and every mediation or assessment by review panel
shall include a consideration of the following factors, that is –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>the
purpose of the project;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>alternative
means of carrying out the project that are technically and economically feasible
and the environmental effects of any such alternative means;
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>the
need for and the requirements of any follow-up program in respect of the
project;
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the short-term or tong term capacity for regeneration of renewal resources that
are likely to be significantly or, in the case of the projects referred to in
sections 43, 44 or 45, seriously affected by the project; and
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(e)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">any
other matter that the Agency or the Council at the request of the Agency, may re
require.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
For greater certainty, the scope of the factors to be taken into consideration
pursuant to subsection (1) (a), (b) and (d) and subsection (2) (b), (c) and (d)
of this Decree shall be determined –
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
by the Agency; or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
where a project is referred to mediation or a review panel, by the Council,
after consulting with the Agency, when fixing the terms of reference of the
mediation or review panel.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(4)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
An environmental assessment of a project shall not be required to include a
consideration of the environmental effects that could result from carrying out
the project during the declaration of a national emergency.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">18.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
The Agency may delegate any part of the screening or mandatory study of a
project, including the preparation of the screening report or mandatory study
report, but shall not delegate the duly to take a course of action pursuant to
section 16(1) or 34(1) of this Decree.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
For greater certainty, the Agency shall not take a course of action pursuant to
section16 (1) or 34(1) unless it is satisfied that any duty or function
delegated pursuant to subsection (1) thereof has been carried out in accordance
with provisions of this Decree or any relevant enactment.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">19.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Agency is of the opinion that a project is not described in the
mandatory study list or any exclusion list, the Agency shall ensure that –
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a screening of the project is conducted; and
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a screening report is prepared.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Any available information may be used in conducting the screening of a project,
but where the Agency is of the opinion that the information available is not
adequate to enable it to take a course of action pursuant to section 16(1) of
this Decree it shall ensure that any study and information that it considers
necessary for that purpose are undertaken or collected.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">20.</span></b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
(1) </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Where
the Agency receives a screening report and the Agency is of the opinion that the
report could be used as a method of conducting screening of other project within
the same class, the agency may declare the report to be a class screening
report.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Any
declaration made pursuant to subsection (1) of this Decree shall be published in
the Gazette and the screening report to which it relates shall be made available
to the public at the registry maintained by the Agency.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Where
in the opinion of the Agency a project or part of a project is within a class in
respect of which a class screening report has been declared, the Agency may use
or permit the use of that report and the screening on which it is based to
whatever extent the Agency considers appropriate for the purpose of complying
with section13 of this Decree.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(4)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Agency uses or permits the use of a class screening report, it shall
ensure that any adjustments are made that in the opinion of Agency are necessary
to take into account Local circumstances and any cumulative environmental
efforts that in the opinion of the Agency are likely to result from the project
in combination with other project that have been or will be carried out.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">21.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a proponent proposes to carry out, in whole or in part a project for which
a screening report has been prepared but the project did not proceed or the
manner in which it is to be carried out has subsequently changed or where a
proponent seeks the renewal of a licence, permit or approval referred to in
section 5(d) of this Decree in respect of a project for which a screening report
has been prepared, the Agency may use or permit the use of that report and the
screening on which it is based to whatever extent the Agency considers
appropriate for the purpose of complying with section 13 of this Decree.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Agency uses or permits the use of a screening or screening report
pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the Agency shall ensure that any
adjustments are made that in its opinion are necessary to take into account any
significant changes in the circumstances of the project.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">22.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>After
completion of a screening report in respect of a project, the Agency shall take
one of the following courses of action, that is –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
where, in the opinion of the Agency;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects, or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any such effect can be mitigated,
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Agency may exercise any power or perform any duty or function that would
permit the project to be carried out and shall ensure that any mitigation
measures that the Agency considers appropriate are implemented;
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>where,
in the opinion of the Agency;
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects that
may not be mitigable; or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
public concerns respecting the environmental effects of the project warrant it,
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Agency; shall refer the project to the Council for a referral to mediation
or a review panel in accordance with section 25 of this Decree; or
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>where,
in the opinion of the Agency, the project is likely to cause significant adverse
environmental effects that cannot be mitigated, the Agency shall not exercise
any power or perform any duty or function conferred on it under any enactment
that would permit the project to be carried out in whole or in part.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>For
greater certainty, where the Agency takes a course of action referred to in
subsection (1) (a) of this section, the Agency shall exercise any power and
perform any duly or function conferred on it by or under any enactment in a
manner that ensure that any mitigation measures that the Agency considers
appropriate in respect of the project are implemented.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Before
taking a course of action in relation to a project pursuant to subsection (1) of
this section, the Agency shall give the public an opportunity to examine and
comment on the screening report and any record that has been filed in the public
registry established in respect of the project pursuant to section 51 of this
Decree and shall take into consideration any comments that are filed.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">23.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Agency is of the opinion that a program is described in the mandatory
study list, the Agency shall –
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
ensure that a mandatory study is conducted, and a mandatory study report is
prepared and submitted to the Agency, in accordance with the provisions of this
Decree; or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">refer
the project to the Council for a referral to mediation or a review panel in
accordance with section 25 of this Decree.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">24.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a proponent proposes to carry out, in whole or in part, a project for
which a mandatory study report has been prepared but the project did not proceed
or the manner in which it is to be carried out has subsequently changed, or
where a proponent seeks the renewal of a licence, permit or approval referred to
in section 5(d) of this Decree in respect of a project for which a mandatory
study report has been prepared, the Agency may use or permit the use of that
report and the mandatory study on which it is based to whatever extent the
Agency considers appropriate for the purpose of complying with section 17 of
this Decree.
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Agency uses or permits the use of a mandatory study or a mandatory
study report pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, it shall ensure that
any adjustments are made that in its opinion are necessary to take into account
any significant changes i
n the circumstances of the project.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">25.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
After receiving a mandatory study report in respect of a project, the Agency
shall, in any manner it considers appropriate, publish in a notice setting out
the following information –
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>the
date on which the mandatory study report shall be available to the public;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the place at which copies of the report may be obtained; and
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the deadline and address for filing comments on the conclusions and
recommendations of the report.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Prior to the deadline set out in the notice published by the Agency, any person
may file comments with the Agency relating to the conclusions and
recommendations of the mandatory study report.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">26.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<b> </b>After taking into consideration the
mandatory study report and any comments filed pursuant to section 19(2), the
Council shall –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
refer the project to mediation or a review panel in accordance with section 25
of this Decree where, in the opinion of the Council -
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: green;"> </span>the
project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects that may
not be mitigable; or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
public concerns respecting the environmental effects of the project warrant. it;
or
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
refer the project back to the Agency for action to be taken under section
34(l)(a) of this Decree where, in the opinion of the Council –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects; or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any such effects can be mitigated.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">27.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where at any time the Agency is of the opinion that –
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects that may
not be mitigable; or
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
public concerns respecting the environmental effects of the project warrant it,
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Agency may refer the project to the Council for a referral to mediation or
review panel in accordance with section 25 of this Decree.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">28.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where at any time the Agency decides not to exercise any power or perform any
duty or function referred to in section 19 of this Decree in relation to a
project that has not been referred to mediation or a review panel, it may
terminate the environmental assessment of that project.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">29.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where at any time the Agency decides not to exercise any power or perform any
duty or function referred to in section 25 of this Decree in relation to a
project that has been referred to mediation or a review panel, the Council may
terminate the environmental assessment of the project.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">30.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where at any time the Council is of the opinion that –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a project is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects that may
not be mitigable, or
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
public concerns respecting the environmental effects of the project Warrant it,
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Council may, after consultation with the Agency, refer the project to
mediation or a review panel in accordance with section 25 of this Decree.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">31.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<b> </b>Where a project is to be referred to
mediation or a review panel under this Decree, the Council shall, within a
prescribed period, refer the Council project –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to
mediation, if the Council is satisfied that -
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the parties who are directly affected by or have direct interest in the project
have been identified and are willing to participle in the mediation through
representatives, and
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the mediation is likely to produce a result that is satisfactory to all of the
parties: or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span>
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to
a review panel, in any other case.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">32.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a project is referred to mediation, the Council shall, in consultation
with the Agency –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
appoint as mediator any person who, in the opinion of the Council possesses the
required knowledge or experience; and
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
fix the terms of reference of the mediation.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">33.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
In the case of a dispute respecting the participation of parties in a mediation,
the Council may, on the request of the mediation, determine those parties who
are directly affected by or have a direct interest in the project.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Any determination by the Council pursuant to subsection (1) of this section
shall be binding
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -75px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">34.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A mediator shall not proceed with a mediation unless the mediator is satisfied
that all of the information required for a mediation is available to all of the
participants.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A mediation shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Decree, and the
terms of reference of the mediation –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>help
the participants to reach a consensus on
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the environmental effects that are likely to result from the project,
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any measures that would mitigate any significant adverse environmental effects,
and
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(iii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
an appropriate follow-up program;
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
prepare a report setting out the conclusions and recommendations of the
participants; and
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
submit the report to the Council and the Agency.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">35.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where at any time after a project has been referred to mediation the Council is
of the opinion that the mediation is not likely to produce a result that is
"satisfactory to all parties, the Council may terminate the mediation and
refer the project to a review panel.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">36.
</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
a project is referred to a review panel, the Council shall, in consultation with
the Agency –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
appoint as members of the panel including the Chairman thereof, persons who, in
the opinion of the Council, possess the required knowledge or experience; and
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="color: purple;">
</span>fix the term of reference of the panel.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 50px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">37.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A review panel shall, in accordance with the provisions of this Decree and its
terms of reference –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
ensure that the information required for an assessment by a review panel is
obtained and made available to the public;
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>hold
hearing in a manner that offers the public an opportunity to participate in the
assessment;
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Prepare a report setting out –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the conclusions and recommendations of the panel relating to the environmental
effects of the project and any mitigation measures or follow-up program, and
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 125px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a summary of any comments received from the public; and
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Submit the report to the Council and the Agency.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -75px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">38.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>A
review panel shall be the power of summoning any person to appear as witness
before the panel and or ordering the witness to –
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
give evidence, orally or in writing; and
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 100px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
produce such documents or things as the panel consider necessary for conducting
its assessment of the project.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A review panel shall have the same power to enforce the attendance of witnesses
and to compel them to give evidence and produce documents and other things as is
vested in the Federal High Court or a High Court of a State.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A hearing by review panel shall be in public unless the panel is satisfied after
representation made by a witness that specific, direct and substantial harm
would be caused to the witness by the disclosure of the evidence, documents or
other things that the witness is ordered to give or produce pursuant to
subsection (1) of this section.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(4)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a review panel is satisfied that the disclosure of evidence documents or
other things would cause specific, direct and substantial harm, to a witness,
the evidence, documents or things shall be privileged and shall not, without the
authorization of the witness, knowingly be or be permitted to be communicated,
disclosed or made available by any person who has obtained the evidence,
documents or other things pursuant to this Decree.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px 0px 0px 75px; text-indent: -50px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(5)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Any summons issued or order made by a review panel pursuant to subsection (1) of
this section may, for the purposes of enforcement, be made a summons or order of
the Federal High Court by following the usual practice and procedure.
</span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">39.
</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">On
receiving a report submitted by a mediator or a review panel, the Agency shall
make the report available to the public in any manner the Council considers
appropriate and shall advise the public that the report is available.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">40.</span></b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Following
the submission of a report by a mediator or a review panel or the referral of a
project back to the Agency pursuant to section 30(b) of this Decree, the Agency
shall take one of the following courses of action in relation to the project,
that is –
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
where in the opinion of the Agency -
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: green;"> </span>the
project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effect, or
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(ii)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">any
such effect can be mitigated or justified in the circumstances,
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Agency may exercise any power or perform any duty or function that would
permit the project to be carried out in whole or in part and shall ensure that
any mitigation measures that the Agency considers appropriate are implemented;
or
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">where,
in the opinion of the Agency, the project is likely to cause significant adverse
environmental effects that cannot be mitigated and cannot be justified in the
circumstances, the Agency shall not exercise any power or perform any duty or
function conferred on it by or under any enactment that would permit the project
to be carried out in whole or in part.
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
For greater certainty, where the Agency takes a course of action referred to in
subsection (1) (a) of this section, it shall exercise any power and perform any
duty or function conferred on it by or under any enactment in a manner that
ensures that any mitigation measure that the Agency considers appropriate in
respect of the project is implemented.
</span></div>
</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">41.</span></b>
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>
Where the Agency takes a course of action pursuant to section 40(1)(a) of this
Decree it shall, in accordance with this Decree, design any follow-up programme
that it considers appropriate for the project and arrange for the implementation
of that one.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
The Agency shall advise the
public of –</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
its course of action in
relation to the project;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any mitigation measure to be
implemented with respect to the adverse environmental effects of the project;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the extent which the
recommendations set out in any report submitted by a mediator or a review panel
have been adopted; and
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any follow-up program one
designed for or in the pursuant to subsection (1) of this section.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">42.
</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A certificate stating that an environmental assessment of a project has been
completed, and signed by the Agency that exercises a power or performs a duty or
function referred to in section 35(c) of this Decree in relation to the project,
is in the absence to the contrary, proof of the matter stated in the
certificate.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">43.
</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
For the purposes of this Decree
"jurisdiction" includes
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">a
Federal authority;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the government of a State;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any other agency or body established pursuant to a Decree, Act, Law, Edict or
Bye-law or the legislature of a State and having powers, duties or functions in
relation to an assessment of the environmental effects of a project;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any body established pursuant to a comprehensive land claims agreement and
having powers, duties or functions in relation to an assessment of the
environmental effects of a project;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(e)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a government of a foreign State
or of a subdivision of a foreign Sate, or any institution of a such a
government; and
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(f)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
an international organisation of States or any institution of such an
organisation.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Subject to section 38 of this
Decree, where the referral of a project to a review panel is required or
permitted by this Decree and a jurisdiction referred to in subsection (1) (e) or
(f) of this section, has a responsibility on an authority to conduct an
assessment of the environmental effects of the project or any part of it, the
Council and the Council of External Affairs may establish a review panel jointly
with that jurisdiction.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">44.
</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
The Council shall not establish a review panel jointly with a jurisdiction
referred to in subsection 37(1) of this Decree unless the Council is satisfied
that –
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Council may appoint or approve the appointment of the Chairman or a
co-Chairman and one or more other members of the panel;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the Council may fix or approve
the terms of reference for the panel;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>the
public shall be given an opportunity to participate in the assessment conducted
by the panel;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
on completion of the
assessment, the report of the panel shall be submitted to the Council; and
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(e)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the panel's report shall be
published.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">45.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Council establishes a review
panel jointly with a jurisdiction referred to in subsection 37(1) of this
Decree, the assessment conducted by that panel shall be deemed to satisfy any
requirements of this Decree, respecting assessment by a review panel.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">46.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the referral of a project
to a review panel is required or permitted by this Decree and the Council is of
the opinion that a process for assessing the environmental effects of projects
that is followed by a Federal authority under a Decree or an Act of Parliament
other than this Decree or by a body referred to in section 37(1)(d) of this
Decree would be appropriate substitute, the Council may approve the substitution
of that process for an environmental assessment by a review panel under this
Decree.
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
An approval of the Council
pursuant to subsection (1) of this section shall be in writing and may be given
in respect of a project or a class of projects.
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">47.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<b> </b>The Council shall not approve a
substitution pursuant to subsection 46(1) of this Degree unless the Council is
satisfied that –
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>the
process to be substituted includes a consideration of the factors referred to in
section 11 of this Decree;
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>the
public has been given an opportunity to participate in the assessment;
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
at the end of the assessment, a
report has been submitted to the Council; and
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the report has been published.
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">48.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where the Council approves a
substitution of a process pursuant to section 46(1) of this Decree, an
assessment that is conducted in accordance with that process shall be deemed to
satisfy any requirements of this Decree, in respect of assessment by a panel.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">49.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Where
a project for which an environmental assessment is not required under section 5
of this Decree, is to be carried out in a State and the President,
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces is of the opinion that the project is
likely to have serious environmental effects in another State, the Council may
establish a review panel, to conduct an assessment of the inter-State
environmental effects of the project.
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
The Council shall not establish
a review panel pursuant to subsection (1) of this section where the President,
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and the governments of all interested
States have agreed on another panel of conducting an assessment of the inter
State environmental effects of the project.
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>A
review panel may be established pursuant to subsection (1) of this section on
the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces initiative of the
President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces or at the request of the
government of any interested State.
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(4)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
At east ten days, before
establishing a review panel pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, the
President, Commander-in-Chief or the Armed Forces shall give notice of the
intention to establish a panel to the proponent of the project and to the State
or all interested States.
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(5)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
For the put of this traction
and section 45(3) of this Decree, "interested State" means
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
a State in which the project is
to be carried out; or
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>a
State that claims that serious adverse environmental effects are likely to occur
in that State as a result of the project.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">50.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a project for which an
environmental assessment required under section 5 of this Decree is to be
carried out in Nigeria or on federal lands and the President, Commander-in Chief
of the Armed Forces is of the opinion that the project is likely to cause
serious adverse environmental effects outside Nigeria and those Federal lands,
the Agency and the Minister of Foreign Affairs may establish a review panel to
conduct an assessment of the international environmental effects of the project.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
At least ten days before
establishing a review panel pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) of this section,
the Agency shall give notice of the intention to establish a panel to –
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the proponent of the project;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
the governments of any
interested States in which the project is to be carried out; and
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>the
government of any foreign State in which in the opinion of the Minister of
Foreign Affairs, serious adverse environmental effects are likely to occur as a
result of the project.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">51.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a project for which an
environmental assessment is not required under section 15 of this Decree is to
be carried out in Nigeria and the Agency or the President, Commander-in-Chief of
the Armed Forces is of the opinion that the project is likely to cause serious
adverse environmental effect on Federal Lands or on lands in respect of which a
State or Local Government has interests, the Agency or the President may
establish a review panel to conduct an assessment of the environmental effects
of the project on those lands.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a project for which an
environmental assessment is not required under section 5 of this Decree, is to
be carried out on lands in a Local Government land or on lands that have been
set aside for the use and benefit of certain class of persons pursuant to
legislation and the Agency is of the opinion that the project is likely to cause
serious environmental effects outside those lands, the Agency may establish a
review panel to conduct an assessment of the environmental effects of the
project outside those lands.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
At least ten days before a
review panel is established pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) of this section,
the Agency shall give notice of the intention to establish a panel to the
proponent of the project and to the governments of all interested States and if,
in the case of a project that is to be carried out the Agency is of the opinion
that
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
is likely to cause or have
serious adverse environmental effects on lands in a reserve that is set apart
for the use and benefit of a certain class of persons, to that class of persons;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
on settlement lands described
in comprehensive land claims agreement referred to in subsection (2) if this
section to the party to the agreement; and
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
on lands that have been set
aside for the use and benefit of certain class of persons to that class of
persons
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(4)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
For the purposes of this
Decree, a reference to any land areas or reserves includes a reference to all
waters on and air above those lands, areas or reserves.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">52.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Sections 30 to 33 and 37 to 39 of this
Decree shall apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to
review panel established pursuant to sections 43(1), 44(1) or 45(1) or (2) of
this Decree.
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">53.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Where
the Agency after the appraisal of the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces' assessment of the environmental effects of a project referred to in
sections 43(1), 44(1) or 45(1) or (2) of this Decree the President,
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces may, by order published in the Gazette,
prohibit the proponent of the project from doing any act or thing that would
commit the proponent to ensuring the project is carried out in whole or in part
until the assessment is completed and the Agency is satisfied that the project
is not likely to cause any serious adverse environmental effects or that any
such effects shall be mitigated or are justified in the circumstances.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Where
a review panel established to access the environmental effects of a project
referred to in subsection 43(1), 44(1) or 45(1) or (2) of this Decree submits a
report to the Agency indicating that the project is likely to cause any serious
adverse environmental effects, the Agency may prohibit the proponent of the
project from doing any act or thing that would commit the proponent to ensuring
that the project is carried out in whole or in part until the Agency is
satisfied that such effects have been mitigated.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">54.
</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where, on the application of
the Agency, it appears to court of competent jurisdiction that a prohibition
made under section 47 of this Decree in respect of a project has been, is about
to be or is likely to be contravened, the court may issue an injunction ordering
any person named in the application to refrain from doing any act or thing that
would commit the proponent to ensuring that the project or any part thereof is
carried out until –
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(a)</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
with respect to a
prohibition made pursuant to section 47(1) of this Decree the assessment of the
environmental effects of the project referred to in sections 43(1), 44(1) or
45(1) or (2) of this Decree completed and the Agency satisfied that the project
is not likely to cause any serious adverse environmental effects or any such
effects shall be mitigated or are justified in the circumstances; and</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(b)</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
with respect to a prohibition made pursuant
to section 47(2), of this Decree the Agency is satisfied that the serious
adverse environmental effects referred to in that subsection had been mitigated.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
At least forty-eight hours before an
injunction is issued under subsection (1) of this section, notice of the
application shall be given to the persons named in the application unless the
urgency of the situation is such that the delay involved in giving such notice
would not be in the public interest.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">55.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
(1) </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Any
prohibition under section 47 of this Decree shall come into force on the day it
is made.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
The prohibition shall cease to
have effect fourteen days after it is made unless within that period, it is
approved by the President, Commander- in -Chief of the Armed Forces.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Agreements
and Arrangements</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">56.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a Federal authority or
the Government of Nigeria on behalf of a Federal authority enters into agreement
or arrangement with the government of a State or any institution of such a
government under which a Federal authority exercises a power or performs a Duty
or function referred to in section 15(b) or (c) of this Decree in relation to
projects –
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
that have not been identified
at the time power is exercised or the duly or function is performed; and
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
in respect of which the
Government of Nigeria or the federal authority as the case may be, shall have no
power to exercise or duty or function to perform when the projects are
identified,
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
the
Government of Nigeria or the Federal authority concerned shall ensure that the
agreement or arrangement provides for the assessment of the environmental
effects of those projects and that the assessment shall he carried out as early
as practicable in the planning stages those projects.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Where a Federal authority or
the Government of Nigeria on behalf of a Federal authority enters into an
agreement with the government of a Foreign State or of a subdivision of a
foreign State, an international organisation of a foreign States, any
institution of such a government or organisation, under which a Federal
authority exercises a power or performs a duty or function referred to in
section 5(b) or (c) of this Decree in relation to the projects
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
that have not been identified
at the time the power is exercised or the duty or function is performed, and
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
in respect of which the
Government of Nigeria or the Federal authority, as the case may be, shall have
no power to exercise or duty or function to perform when the projects are
identified.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
the
Government of Nigeria or the Federal authority shall ensure that the agreement
or arrangement provides for the assessment of the environmental effects of those
projects and that the assessment shall be carried out as early as practicable in
the planning stages of those projects.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Access
to Information</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">57.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>For
the purpose of facilitating public access to records relating to environmental
assessments, a public registry shall be established and operated in accordance
with the provisions of this Decree in respect of every project for which an
environmental assessment is conducted.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
The public registry in respect
of a project shall be maintained
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
by the Agency from the
commencement of the environmental assessment until any follow-up program in
respect of the project is completed; and
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
where the project is referred
to mediation or review panel, by the Agency from the appointment of the mediator
or the members of the review panel until the report of the mediator or review
panel is submitted to the Agency or the Secretary to the Government of the
Federation as the case may be.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(3)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Subject to subsection (4) of
this section, a public registry shall contain all records and information
produces, collected or submitted with respect to the environmental assessment of
the project, including
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any report relating to the
assessment;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any comments filed by the
public in relation to the assessment; and
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any record prepared by the
Agency for the purposes of section 35 of this Decree.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(4)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
A public registry shall contain a record referred to in subsection (3) of this
section if the record falls within one of the following categories-
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
records that have otherwise
been made available to the public carrying out the assessment pursuant to this
Decree and any additional records, that have otherwise been made publicly
available;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any record or part of a record
that the Agency, in the case of a record in its possession, or any other
Ministry or government agency determines would have been disclosed to the public
if a request had been made in respect of that record at The time the record was
filed with the registry, including any record that would be disclosed in the
public interest;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
any record or part of a record,
except a record or part containing third party information, if The President in
the case of a record in the Agency's possession, or the President believes on
reasonable grounds that its disclosure would be in the public interest because
it is required in order for the public to participate effectively in the
assessment,
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(5)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>Notwithstanding
any other enactment, no civil or criminal proceedings shall lie against the
Agency, or against any person acting on behalf of or under the direction of, and
no proceedings shall lie against the State or any of its agencies for the
disclosure in good faith of any record or any part of a record pursuant to this
Decree, for any consequences that flow from that disclosure, for the failure to
give any notice if reasonable care is taken to give the required notice.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(6)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
For the purposes of this
section, "third party information" means –
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
trade secrets of a third party;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>
financial, commercial, scientific or technical information that is confidential
information supplied to a government institution by a third party and is treated
consistently in a confidential manner by the third party;
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
information the disclosure of
which could reasonably be expected to result in material financial loss or gain
to, or could reasonably be expected to prejudice the competitive position of a
third party; and
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
information the disclosure of
which could reasonably be expected to interfere with contractual or other
negotiations of a third party.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">58.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
During each year, the Agency
shall maintain a statistical summary of all the environmental assessments
undertaken or directed by it and all courses of action taken, and all decisions
made, in relation to the environmental effects of the project after the
assessments were completed.
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
The Agency shall ensure that
the summary for each year is compiled and completed within one month after the
end of that year.
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">59.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
<b> </b>An application for judicial review
in connection with any matter under this Decree shall be refused when. the sole
ground for relief established in the application is a is a defect in form or a
technical irregularity.
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b><span style="color: green; font-size: x-small;">Part
III
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Miscellaneous</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">60.
</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">(1)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>For
the purposes of this Decree, the Agency may-</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
issue guidelines and codes of
practice to assist in conducting assessment. of the environmental effects of
projects;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
establish research and advisory
bodies;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
enter into agreements or
arrangements with any jurisdiction within the meaning of section37(1)(a), (b),
(c) or (d) respecting assessments of environmental effects;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>
enter into agreements or arrangements with States for the purposes of
coordination, consultation, and exchange of information in relation to The
assessment of the environmental effects of projects of common interest;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(e)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>
recommend the appointment of members to bodies established by federal
authorities or to bodies referred to in section 37(1)(d) of this Decree on a
temporary basis, for the purpose of facilitating a substitution pursuant to
section 40 of this Decree;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(f)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
establish criteria for the
appointment of mediators and members of review panels; and</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(g)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
establish criteria for the
approval of a substitution pursuant to section 40 of this Decree.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">61.
</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The Agency, with
the approval of the President, Commander-in Chief of the Armed Forces may make
regulations, published in the Gazette-</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
respecting the procedures and
requirements of, and the time or period relating to the environmental assessment
process set out in or including the conduct of assessment by review panels
established pursuant to section 37 of this Decree:</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
prescribing a list of projects
or classes of projects for which an environmental assessment is not required,
where the Council with the approval of the President, Commander-in-Chief of the
Armed Forces is of the opinion that the environmental effects of the projects
are likely to be negligible;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
prescribing a list of projects
or classes of projects not covered by, the best of mandatory study list in the
Schedule to this Decree for which a mandatory study is required where the
Council is of the, opinion that the projects are likely to have significant
adverse environmental effects;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(d)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
prescribing a list of projects or classes of projects for which or environmental
assessment is not required, when, the Council is of the opinion that the
contribution of the Agency to powers or the performance of its duties or
functions is minimal;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(e)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
prescribing a list For which an
environment assessment is required, where the Council is of the opinion that an
environmental assessment of the projects would be inappropriate for reasons of
national security</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">62.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Any person who fails to comply with the
provisions of this Decree shall be guilty of an offence under this Decree and on
conviction in the case of an individual to N 100,000 fine or to five years
imprisonment and in the case of a firm or corporation to a fine of not less than
N50,000 and not more than N 1,000,000</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">63.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><b>
</b> </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">(1)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
In this Decree, unless the context otherwise provides</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"Agency" means the Nigerian Environmental Protection Agency
established by the Federal Environmental Protection Act;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"assessment by a review panel" means an environmental assessment that
is conducted by a review panel appointed pursuant to section 30 and that
includes a consideration of the factors set out in subsections 11(1) and (20) of
this Decree</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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"Council" means the Federal Environmental Protection Council
established by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency Act;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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"environment" means the components of the Earth, and includes-</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>
land, water and air, including all layers of the atmosphere,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
all organic and inorganic
matter and living organisms, and</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
the interacting natural systems
that include components referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b);</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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"Environmental assessment" means, in respect of a project, an
assessment of the environmental effects of the project that is conducted in
accordance with this Decree and any regulations made thereunder;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"environmental effect" means, in respect of a project,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
any change that the project may
cause to the environment,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>
any change the project may cause to the environment, whether any such change
occurs within or outside Nigeria, and includes any effect of any such change on
health and socio-economic conditions;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"exclusion list" means any list prescribed pursuant to paragraph
55(1)(b), (d) or (e) or section 55(2) of this Decree;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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"federal authority" means -</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
a Minister of the Government of
the Federation of Nigeria;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
any agency of the Government of
Nigeria or other body established by or pursuant to an Act, Decree, Law or Edict
that is ultimately accountable through a Governor of the State of Nigeria in the
conduct of its affairs;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
any other prescribed body, but
does not include the Commissioner in a Local Government;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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"Federal Lands" means - </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
lands that belong to the Federal Government of Nigeria in which Nigeria has a
right thereon or has the power to dispose of and all waters on and air space
above those land</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
the following lands and areas
namely,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: green;"> </span>the
internal waters of Nigeria within the meaning of the Sea Fisheries Decree 1992,
including the sealed and subsoil below and the airspace above those waters,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
the territorial sea of Nigeria as
determined in accordance with the Nigerian Territorial Waters Act, including the
seabed and subsoil below and the airspace above that sea,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(iii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
any fishing zone of Nigeria
prescribed under The Sea Fisheries Decree 1992;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(iv)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: green;"> </span>
any exclusive economic zone that may be created by the Government of Nigeria;
and</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(v)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
the continental shelf, consisting of the seabed and subsoil of the submarine
areas that extend beyond the territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation
of the land territory of Nigeria to the outer edge of the continental margin or
to a distance of two hundred nautical miles from the inner limits as may be
prescribed pursuant to a Decree or an Act, and</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
reserves, surrendered lands and any other lands that are set apart for the use
and benefit of a class of Nigerians by the Federal Government of Nigeria and all
waters on and airspace above those reserves or surrendered lands:</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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"follow-up program" means a program for -</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
verifying the accuracy of the
environmental assessment of a project; and</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
determining the effectiveness
of any measures taken to mitigate the adverse environmental effects of the
project;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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"mandatory study" means an environmental assessment that is conducted
pursuant to, section 17 and that includes a consideration of the factors set in
subsection 11(1) and (2) of this Decree;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"mandatory study list" means the list in the Schedule to this Decree
and those that may be prescribed pursuant to section 55(l)(c) of this Decree;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"mandatory study report" means a report of a mandatory study that is
prepared in accordance with the provisions of this Decree or any regulations
made thereunder;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"mediation" means an environmental assessment that is conducted with
the assistance of a mediator appointed pursuant to section 26 of this Decree and
that includes a consideration of the factors set out in section 11(1) and (2) of
this Decree;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"mitigation" means, in respect of a project, the elimination,
reduction or control of the adverse environmental effects of the project, and
includes restitution for any damage to the environment caused by such effects
through replacement restoration, compensation or any other means;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"prescribed" means prescribed by regulations;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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"project" means a physical work that a proponent proposes to
construct, operate, modify, decommission, abandon or otherwise carry out or a
physical activity that a proponent proposes to undertake or otherwise carry out;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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"proponent", in respect of a project, means the person, body or
federal authority that proposes the project;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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"record" includes any correspondence, memorandum, book, plan, map
drawing, diagram, pictorial or graphic work, photograph, film, microform, sound
recording, videotape, machine readable record, and any other documentary
material, regardless of physical form or characteristics, and any copy thereof;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"responsible authority" in relation to a project, means a Federal
authority that is required pursuant to subsection 7(1) of this Decree to ensure
that an environmental assessment of the project is conducted;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"responsible Minister" means, in respect of a responsible authority,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>in
the case of a department or ministry of State, The Minister or Commissioner
presiding over that department or ministry, and</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
in any other case, such member of the National Executive Council or State
Executive Council as is designated as the responsible Minister or Commissioner
for that responsible authority;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">
"screening"
means an environmental assessment that is conducted pursuant to section13 of
this Decree and that includes a consideration of the factors set out in section
11(1) of this Decree:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
"screening report" means a report that summarises the results of a
screening.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">(2)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
For the purposes of this
Decree, a company is controlled by another company if -</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
securities of the corporation
to which are attached more than fifty per cent of the votes that may be cast to
elect directors of the corporation are held, other than by way of security only,
by or for the benefit of that corporation; and</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
the votes attached to those
securities are sufficient, if exercised, to elect a majority of the directors of
the corporation.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">64.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
This Decree may be cited as the
Environmental Impact Assessment Decree 1992</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Schedule</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Mandatory
Study Activities</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1.
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Agriculture
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Land development schemes
covering an area of 500 hectares or more to bring forest and into agricultural
production.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Agricultural programmes
necessitating the resettlement of 100 families or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Development of agricultural
estates covering an area of 500 hectares or more involving changer in type of
agricultural use.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">2.
Airport</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of airports
(having an airstrip of 2,500 metres or more</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Airstrip development in State
and national parks.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3.
Drainage and Irrigation</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of dams and
man-made lakes and artificial enlargement of lakes with surface areas of 200
hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Drainage of wetland, wild-life
habitat or of virgin forest covering an area of 100 hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Irrigation schemes covering an
area of 5,000 hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">4.
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Land
Reclamation
</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Coastal reclamation involving
an area of 50 hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">5.
Fisheries</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>Construction
of fishing harbours.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Harbour expansion involving an increase of 50 per cent or more in fish landing
capacity per annum.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Land based aquaculture projects
accompanied by clearing of mangrove swamp forests covering an area of 50
hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">6.
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Forestry
</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Conversion of hill forest land
to other land use covering an area of 50 hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Logging or conversion of forest
land to other land use within the catchment area of reservoirs used for
municipal water supply, irrigation or hydro power generation or in areas
adjacent to state and national parks and national marine parks.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>Logging
covering an area of 500 hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Conversion of mangrove swamps
for industrial, housing or agricultural use covering an area of 50 hectares or
more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(e)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Clearing of mangrove swamps on
islands adjacent to national marine parks.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">7.
Housing</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8.
Industry</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Chemical</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Where
production capacity of each product or of combined products is greater than 100
tonnes/day,</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>Petrochemicals
all sizes.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Non-ferrous primary smelting</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Aluminium - all sizes</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Copper
- all sizes</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Others
- producing [50?] tonnes/day and above of product</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Non-metallic </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
-
Cement - for clinker throughput of 30 tonnes/hour and above</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
- Lime
- 100 tonnes/day and above burnt lime rotary kiln or 50 tonnes/day and above
vertical kiln.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(e)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>
Iron and steel</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
-
Require iron ore as raw materials for production greater than 100 tonnes/day; or</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
- Using
scrap iron as raw materials for production greater than 200 tonnes per day. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(f)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Shipyards</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
- Dead
Weight Tonnage greater than 5000 tonnes.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(g)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Pulp and paper industry</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
-
Production capacity greater than 50 tonnes/day</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">9.
Infrastructure</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>
Construction of hospitals with outfall into beachfronts used for, recreational
purposes.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>
Industrial estate development for medium and heavy industry covering an area of
50 hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of Expressways.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of national
highway.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(e)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of new townships.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">10.
Ports</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>
Construction of ports.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>Port
expansion involving an increase of 50 percent or more in handling capacity per
annum.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">11.
Mining</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Mining of materials in new
areas where the mining lease covers a total area in excess of 250 hectares.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Ore processing, including
concentrating for aluminium, copper, gold or tantalum.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>
Sand dredging involving an area of 50 hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">12.
Petroleum</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Oil and gas fields development.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of off-shore
pipelines in exceed of 50 kilometres in length.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of oil and gas
separation, processing, handling, and storage facilities.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(d)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of oil refineries.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(e)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of product depots
for the storage of petrol, gas or diesel (excluding service stations) which are
located within 3 kilometres of any commercial, industrial or residential areas
and which have a combined storage capacity of 60,000 barrels or more.
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">13.
Power Generation and Transmission
</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of steam generated power stations burning fossil fuels and having a
capacity of more than 10 megawatts.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Dams and hydroelectric power
schemes with either or both of the following.
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
dams over 15 metres high and
ancillary structures covering a total area in excess of 40 hectares; </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: green;"> </span>
reservoirs with a surface area in excess of 400 hectares;</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of combined cycle
power stations.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of nuclear-fueled
power stations.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">14.
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Quarries
</span>
</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Proposed quarrying of aggregate, limestone, silica, quartzite, sandstone marble
and, decorative building stone within 3 kilometeres of any existing residential,
commercial or industrial areas, or any area for which a licence, permit or
approval has been granted for residential, commercial or industrial development.</span><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></b></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">15.
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Railways</span></span></b></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of new routes.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of branch lines.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">16.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Transportation
</span></b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">17.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Resort
and Recreat1onal Development
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of coastal resort-facilities or hotels with more than 80 rooms.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Hill station resort or hotel
development covering an area of 50 hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: purple;"> </span>Development
of tourist or recreational facilities in national parks.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(d)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Development of tourist or
recreational facilities, on islands in surrounding waters which may be declared
as national marine parks.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">18.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<b> </b> <b>Waste Treatment and
Disposal</b></span><b><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></b></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Toxic and Hazardous Waste</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of incineration
plant.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of recovery plant
(off-site)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(iii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of waste water treatment plant
(off-site).</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(iv)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of secure landfill facility.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(v)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of storage facility (off-site).</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Municipal Solid Waste</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(i)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of incineration
plant.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(ii).</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
<span style="color: green;"> </span>Construction
of composing plant.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(iii)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Construction
of recovery/recycling plant.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(iv)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of municipal solid waste
landfill facility.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(c)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Municipal Sewage</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(i)
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of waste water treatment plant.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman;">(ii)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of marine outfall.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">19.</span></span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><b>Water
Supply
</b></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(a)</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
Construction of dams,
impounding reservoir with a surface area of 200 hectares or more.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">(b)</span>
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Groundwater development for
industrial, agricultural or urban water supply of greater than 4,500 cubic
metres per day.</span></span></div>
<b>
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</b><div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0px; word-spacing: 0px;">
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Made</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;">
at Abuja this 10th day of December 1992.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>General
I. B. Babangida,</b> </span></div>
<i>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">President,
Commander-in Chief of the Armed Forces </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Federal
Republic of Nigeria</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="color: green; font-size: medium;">
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Federal
Environmental Protection Agency (Amendment) Decree</div>
</span>
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<span style="color: green;">N<u>o</u> 59 of 1992</span></div>
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<span style="color: green; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Laws
of the Federation of Nigeria</span></div>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>
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2nd
August, 1992</div>
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</i><b>
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<b>The
Federal Military Government</b> hereby decrees as follows:</div>
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<b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>1.</b>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(1)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Federal Environmental Protection Agency Act (in this
Decree referred to as "the principal Act") is hereby amended as
provided in this Decree.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">2.</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Section 1 of the principal Act is amended as follows-</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
by renumbering the existing section 1 thereof as section 1(1); and</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> by inserting immediately after subsection (1) as
renumbered a new subsection (2) as follows, that is -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">"(2)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The Agency shall be an integral part of the Presidency.".</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>3.</b>
For the existing section 2 of the principal Act, there shall be substituted the
following new section 2, that is-</div>
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"Governing council of the Agency</div>
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<b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2.
</b> </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(1)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">There shall be as the governing body of the Agency, a
Council which shall consist of a Chairman to be appointed by the Head of State,
Commander in-Chief of the Armed Forces and the following other members, that is-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
the Minister, charged with the responsibility for-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(i)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Agriculture, and Natural Resources,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(ii)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Commerce and Tourism,</span></div>
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(iii)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Communications,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(iv)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Education</span></div>
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(v)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Finance, and Human Services,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(vi)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Health,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(vii)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Industry </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #007f00;">(viii)
</span>Petroleum Resources,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #007f00;"> (ix)
</span> Science and Technology </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #007f00;">(x)
</span>Solid Minerals</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(xi)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Transport</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(xii)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Works and Housing</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(xiii)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Youth and Sports</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
two other persons from the private sector who shall have distinguished
themselves in environmental matters.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
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(2)</div>
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(3)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The Chairman of the Technical Committee established under
section 2A of this Act shall also be an ex-officio member</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>4.
</b> Immediately after the existing section 2 of the principal Act, shall be
inserted the following new section 2A that is -</div>
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<b>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>2A.
</b> </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(1)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> There is hereby established for the Agency, a Technical
Committee to be known as the Federal Environmental Protection Agency Technical
Committee (in this Decree referred to as "the Technical Committee").</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(2)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The Technical Committee shall consist of the following members, that is -</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
a Chairman who shall be the Director-General and Chief Executive of the Agency;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
three distinguished persons having wide knowledge and possessing such skills and
expertise in environmental matter;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(c)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
one representative each of the following Ministries not below the rank of a
Director, that is</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(i)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Agriculture, Water Resources and Rural Development,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(ii)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Finance,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(iii)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Health and Human Services,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(iv)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Industries and Technology,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(v)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Petroleum and Mineral Resources,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(vi)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Works and Housing,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(vii)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Transport and Communications,</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(viii)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Education and Youth Development; and</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(d)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
a representative each of-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(i)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> the Manufacturers' Association of Nigeria; and</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(ii)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="color: #007f00;"> </span> the
Nigerian Conservation Foundation.</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(3)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>
The functions of the Technical Committee shall be-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> to assist and advise the Council and the Agency in the
performance of their functions under this Act; and</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> to give technical opinion on issues referred to it or
delegated by the Council.".</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>5.</b>
In section 4 of the principal Act-</div>
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
immediately after the word "environment" appearing in the third line
thereof, there shall be inserted the following words, that is -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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"and biodiversity conservation and sustainable development of Nigeria's
natural resources";</div>
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</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> for the existing paragraphs (a) to (e) thereof, there
shall be substituted the following new paragraphs, that is -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">"(a)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
prepare a comprehensive national policy for the protection of the environment
and conservation of natural resources, including procedure for environmental
impact assessment for all development projects;</span></div>
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</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
prepare, in accordance with the National policy on the Environment, periodic
master plans for the development of environmental sciences and technology and
advise the Federal Military Government on the financial requirements for the
implementation of such plans;</span></div>
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(c)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> advise -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(i)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
the Federal Military Government on the national environmental policies and
priorities, the conservation of natural resources and sustainable development,
and scientific and technological activities affecting the environment, and
natural resources;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 125; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #007f00; font-size: x-small;">(ii)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="color: #007f00;"> </span> the
President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces on the utilisation of the l
per cent Ecological Fund for the protection of the environment;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(d)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
promote co-operation in environmental science and conservation technology with
similar bodies in other countries and with international bodies connected with
the protection of the environment and the conservation of natural resources;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(e)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
co-operate with Federal and State Ministries, Local Governments, statutory
bodies and research agencies on matters and facilities relating to the
protection of the environment and the conservation of natural resources ; and</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(f)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
carry out such other activities as are necessary or expedient for full discharge
of the functions of the Agency under this Decree."</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>6.</b>
Section 3 of the principal Act is amended as follows, that is-</div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
in paragraph (b) thereof, immediately after the word "matters" there
shall be inserted the following words, that-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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"and the degradation of natural resource ;";</div>
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="color: #7f007f;"> </span>
in paragraph (f) thereof, immediately after the word "advisory" there
shall be inserted the word "committees";</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(c)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="color: #7f007f;"> </span>in
Paragraph (h) thereof, immediately after the word "environment" there
shall be inserted the following words, that is -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
"and natural resources";</div>
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(d)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
in paragraph (i) thereof, immediately after the words "implementation
of" there shall be inserted the following words, that is-</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
"natural resources conservation".</div>
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<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>7.</b>
<b> </b>For the existing
section 7 of the principal Act there shall be substituted the following new
section 7, that is-</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
"Director- General and other staff of the Agency</div>
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<br /></div>
<b>
</b></span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 75; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -75; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>7.
</b> </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(1)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
There shall be appointed by the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces, a Director-General of the Agency.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(2)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The Director-General shall be the Chief Executive of the Agency and shall hold
office in the first instance for five years and thereafter, shall be eligible
for reappointment for one further term of five years only, on terms and
conditions as may be specified in his letter of appointment.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(3)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The Agency may appoint such other persons to be employees of the Agency as it
may deem fit, on such terms and conditions as may be determined by the Agency.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(4)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The Agency shall with the approval of the President, Commander-in-Chief of the
Armed Forces, make staff regulations governing conditions of service of its
employees.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 75; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 75; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(5)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The Agency may grant loans to its employees for purposes approved by the
President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces."</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>8.</b>
In section 9 of the principal Act-</div>
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="color: #7f007f;"> </span>
insert immediately after the word "environment" appearing in the last
line of paragraph (a) thereof, the words, "and natural resources ;";</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
insert immediately after the words "co-ordination of" in paragraph (c)
thereof, the words "the conservation of natural resources";</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
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[Editorial Note: - There is no subsection (c) in this section]</div>
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<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(d)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
insert immediately after the words "environmental protection" in
paragraph (c) thereof, the words "and natural resource conservation";</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(e)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> insert immediately after the word "pollution"
in paragraph (d) thereof, the words "and the degradation of natural
resources,".</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>
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<br /></div>
</b><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<b>9.</b>
For the existing section 12 of the principal Act, there shall be substituted the
following new section, that is -</div>
<b>
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<br /></div>
</b></span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 75; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -75; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>12.</b>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(1)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The Agency shall establish and maintain a fund from which shall be defrayed all
expenses incurred by the Agency in the performance of the Agency's duties and
function" under this Act.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 75; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(2)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The fund established under subsection (1) of this section shall consist of the
following, that is -</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> 25 per cent of the 1 per cent Ecological Fund of the
Federation Account;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
such sums as may, from time to time, be granted to the Agency by the Government
of the Federation;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(c)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="color: #7f007f;"> </span>
all money raised for the purposes of the Agency by way of gifts, grants-in-aid,
testamentary disposition and sale of publications;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(d)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
subscriptions, fees and charges for services rendered by the Agency and all
other sums that may accrue to the Agency from any other source".</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>
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<br /></div>
</b><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<b>10.</b>
In section 36 of the principal Act-</div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
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<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> insert immediately after the words, "in
addition" appearing in line eight thereof, the words "the body
corporate, firm or partnership";</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
delete in line eleven thereof, all the words appearing after the word
"Agency" and substitute therefor the "punctuation mark".</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>
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<br /></div>
</b><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<b>11.</b>
Immediately after the existing section 36 of the principal Act, there shall be
inserted the following new Sections that is -</div>
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<br /></div>
<b>
</b></span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 75; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -75; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>36A.</b>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(1)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The Council may delegate any of its functions and duties under this Act to the
Technical Committee or the Director-General, as the case may be.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 75; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(2)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Nothing contained in subsection (1) of this section shall preclude the exercise
by the Council of any of the functions or duties delegated by it to the
Technical Committee or the Director-General.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>
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<br /></div>
</b></span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 75; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -75; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>36B.</b>
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(1)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
The Natural Resources Conservation Act is hereby repealed.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 75; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 75; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: blue; font-size: x-small;">(2)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
<span style="color: blue;"> </span>
The repeal of the enactment referred to in subsection (1) of this section shall
not affect anything done or purported to have been done under the repealed
enactment ".</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>12.
</b> For the existing section 37 of the principal Act there shall be substituted
the following new section, that is -</div>
<b>
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<br /></div>
</b><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<b>37.</b>
The Director-General may, with the approval of the Council make regulations
generally for the purposes of this Act and without prejudice to the generality
of the foregoing, the Director-General may in particular prescribe standards
for-</div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
water quality;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">effluent limitations</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(c)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
air quality;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(d)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
atmospheric protection;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(e)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Ozone protection;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(f)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
noise control, and</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(g)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> control of hazardous substances and removal control
methods ".</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>
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<br /></div>
</b><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<b>13.
</b> For the words, "the Chairman and of the Director" occurring in
paragraph 7 of the Schedule to the principal Act, there shall be substituted the
words, "Director-General".</div>
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<br /></div>
<b>
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<b>14.</b>
In the principal Act-</div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(a)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
for the word "Minister" wherever it appears, there shall be
substituted the words, "the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed
Forces;</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</span><span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">
</span><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 100; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<span style="color: #7f007f; font-size: x-small;">(b)
</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> For the word ' Director" wherever it appears there
shall be substituted the word "Director General".</span></div>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">
<b>
<div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
</b><div align="justify" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 50; margin-right: 0; margin-top: 0; text-indent: -50; word-spacing: 0;">
<b>15.</b>
This Decree may be cited as the Federal Environmental Protection Agency
(Amendment) Decree 1992 and shall be deemed to have come into force on 2<sup>nd</sup>
January 1992.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
Made at
Abuja this 2nd day of August 1992.</div>
<b>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
<br /></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
General
I. B. Babangida,</div>
</b><i>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces</div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 100%; margin: 0; word-spacing: 0;">
Federal
Republic of Nigeria</div>
</i></span>[ZIONCHILD]http://www.blogger.com/profile/03714056084046551444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-90063507596268374782012-04-17T21:25:00.001+01:002012-04-17T21:25:29.324+01:00<a href="http://www.nigeria-law.org/Environmental%20Impact%20Assessment%20Decree%20No.%2086%201992.htm">EIA Act nigeria.</a><br />[ZIONCHILD]http://www.blogger.com/profile/03714056084046551444noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-4656102132270622862012-04-14T17:56:00.003+01:002012-04-16T23:05:31.411+01:00I found these materials really interesting and I believe they can help widen the scope of our knowledge and understanding on the <b>ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT</b>. Click the links below or you can copy and paste the links in a new window to access them ; <a href="http://www.unep.ch/etu/publications/14%29%2063%20to%2074.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.unep.ch/etu/publications/14%29%2063%20to%2074.pdf</a><span id="goog_610069230"></span><span id="goog_610069231"></span><br />
<a href="http://www.man-greencourses.com/papers/paper6b.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.man-greencourses.com/papers/paper6b.pdf</a><br />
<a href="http://www.ddhmag.com/eiazagi407.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ddhmag.com/eiazagi407.htm</a><br />
<br />
You can also click this link for the facts and judgment in the case of <b>Berkley v. Secretary of State for the Environments & others</b>; <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld199900/ldjudgmt/jd000706/berk-1.htm" target="_blank"><b>Berkley's case</b></a>TIJANI OLUWASEUNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00636631245303063465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-17587097791169545532012-04-11T17:26:00.003+01:002012-04-13T22:17:03.543+01:00<br />
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">PART 1 – ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> <b>2007
No. 25</b> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">National Environmental Standards and Regulations <o:p></o:p></i></span><br />
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">25<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
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of hazardous substance and related offences<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">Removal
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</span></span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">Co-operations
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">PART
VI – MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">Legal
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</span></span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">Power of
Minister to give Directives<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">Power to
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</span></span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">Repeal of
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> NATIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT) ACT, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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2007 ACT NO. 25<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 9pt;">A</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;">N
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 9pt;">A</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;">ND </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 9pt;">R</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;">EGULATIONS
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> E</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;">NACTED</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ----<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PART 1 – E</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;">STABLISHMENT</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;">OF</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> T</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;">HE</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> N</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;">ATIONAL</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> E</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;">NVIRONMENTAL</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> S</span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 7pt;">TANDARDS
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<b><span lang="YO">
1</span></b><span lang="YO">.—(1) There is established a body known as
National Environmental Standards <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO">and Regulations Enforcement Agency (in this Act referred to as “the
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(a) shall be the enforcement Agency for environmental standards,
regulations,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"><o:p> </o:p></span><br clear="ALL" style="mso-ignore: vglayout;" />
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<b><span lang="YO"> 2.</span></b><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">The Agency, shall,
subject to the provisions of this Act, have responsibility<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">for the protection and development of the
environment, biodiversity conservation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">and sustainable development of Nigeria’s natural
resources in general and enviromental technology, including coordination and
liaison with relevant<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">stakeholders within and outside</span><span lang="YO"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">Nigeria</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">on matters of enforcement of
environmental<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">standards, regulations, rules, laws, policies and
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<span lang="YO"><o:p> </o:p></span><br /><b style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="YO"> 3</span></b><span lang="YO" style="text-align: justify;">.---(1)
There is established for the Agency, a Governing Council (in this Act</span><br />
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President, on the<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (b) the Permanent Secretary of the Federal
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representative each, not below the rank of Director from the---- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="YO">Federal Ministry of Solid Minerals Development,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> Federal Ministry of Water Resources,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO">(iv)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="YO"> Federal Ministry of Science and
Technology,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="YO"> a representative of the Standards Organisation
of Nigeria,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(vi)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="YO"> a representative of the
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<span lang="YO"> </span><b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">2007 No. 25</span></b><span lang="YO"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">National Environmental Standards
and Regulation <o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Enforcement Agency (Establishment) Act</span></i><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(vii)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO"> a representative of the Oil Exploratory and
Production Companies in Nigeria;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (d) the Director
–General of the Agency; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(2) A member of the Council, other than the Chairman, shall be appointed
by the Minister on the recommendation of the body, if any, he represents.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (4)
The members of the Council shall be paid such allowances as provided under
existing regulations on such payments.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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(5) The provisions of the Schedule to this Act shall have effect with
respect to the proceedings of the Council and other matters mentioned therein.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b>4. </b>A member of the Council appointed, otherwise than by office
and the Director-General, shall hold office for a term of four years and shall
be eligible for reappointment for only one further term of four years.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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5 - </span></b><span lang="YO">(1) The office of a member of the Council
shall become vacant if:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (a) he resigns as a
member of the Council by notice in writing under his hand addressed to the
Minister ; or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (b)
the Minister subject to the approval of the President, is satisfied that it is
not in the interest of the Agency for the person appointed to continue in
office and notifies the member in writing to that effect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="YO">If it appears to the Council that
a member of the Council, other than ex-officio member or the Director-General,
shall be removed from office on the grounds of misconduct or inability to
perform the functions of his office, the Council shall make a recommendation to
the Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">If the Minister, after making such enquiries as
he considers necessary, approves the recommendation, the Minister shall, in
writing, declare the office of such a member vacant.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> <b>6. </b>The Chairman and members of
the Council shall be paid such emoluments, allowances and benefits in
accordance with the existing regulations on such payment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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II – FUNCTIONS AND POWERS OF THE AGENCY AND COUNCIL<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> <b>7.</b> The Agency shall---<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (a) enforce compliance with laws,
guidelines, policies and standards on
environmental matters;</span><span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">(b) coordinate and liaise with stakeholders,
within and outside Nigeria, on matters of environemental standards, regulations
and enforcement;</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">National
Environmental Standards and Regulations</span></i><span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">2007 No. 25<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">Enforcement Agency (Establishment)Act<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="YO">(c) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">enforce compliance with the provisions of international agreements,
protocols, conventions and treaties on the environment, including climate
change, biodiversity, conservation, desertification, forestry, oil and gas,
chemicals, hazardous wastes, ozone depletion, marine and wild life, pollution,
sanitation and such other environemntal agreements as may from time to time
come into force;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (d) enforce compliance with policies, standards, legislation
and guidelines on water quality, environmental health and sanitation, including
pollution abatement;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (e) enforce compliance with guidelines and legislations
on sustainble management of the ecosystem, biodiversity conservation and the
development of Nigeria’s natural resources;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (f) enforce compliance with any legislation on sound
chemical management, safe use of pesticides and disposal of spent packages
thereof;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (g) enforce compliance with regulations on the
importation, exportation, production, distribution, storage, sale, use,
handling and disposal of hazardous chemicals and waste other than in the oil
and gas sector;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (h) enforce through compliance monitoring, the
environmental regulations and standards on noise, air, land, seas, oceans and
other water bodies other than in the oil and gas sector;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (i) ensure that environmental projects funded by donor
organisations and external support agencies adhered to regulations in
environmental safety and protection;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (j) enforce environmental control measures through
registration, licencing and permitting systems other than in the oil and gas
sector;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (k) conduct environmental audit and establish data bank
on regulatory and enforcement mechanisms of environmental standards other than
in the oil and gas sector;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (l) create public awareness and provide environmental
education on sustainable environmental management, promote private sector
compliance with environmental regulations other than in the oil and gas sector
and publish general scienctific or other data resulting from the performance of
its functions;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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expedient for the performance of its functions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> <b>8.</b> The Agency shall have
power to---<b><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">(a)
purchase or take on lease any interest in land, building or property;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">(b)
build, equip and maintain the offices and premises for the performance of its
functions under this Act;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lease out any office or premises held by it, which is no longer required;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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prohibit processess and use of equipment or technology that undermine
environmental quality;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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25</span></b><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 10pt;">National Environmental Standards and Regulations <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Enforcement Agency
(Establishment) Act.</span><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: lime; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (</span><span lang="YO">e) conduct field follow-up
compliance with set standards and take procedures prescribed by law against any
violator;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (f) subject to the
provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, and in
collaboration with relevant judicial authorities establish mobile courts to
expeditiously dispense cases of violation of environmental regulations:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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investigations on pollution and the degradation of natural resources, except
investigations on oil spillage;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (h) open and operate
ordinary and domiciliary accounts for the Agency in recognized banking
institutions in Nigeria;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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overdraft or otherwise, with the approval of the Minister, such sums as it may
require for the performance of its functions under this Act;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (j) accept gifts of
land, money or other property, upon such terms and conditions, if any as may be
specified by the person or organisation making the gift, as long as such
conditions are consistent with the functions of the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (k) <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">submit for the approval of the
Minister, proposals for the evolution and review of existing guidelines,
regulations and standards on environment other than in the oil and gas sector
including---<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">atmostperic protection,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ozone depleting substances,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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noise control,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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effluent limitations,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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water quality,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">(vii)
waste management and environmental sanitation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (viii) erosion and flood control,</span><span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(ix) c<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">oastal zone management,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">(x)dams
and reservoirs,</span><span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(xi)<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">watershed</span> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (xii)<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">deforestation and bush burning,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (xiii)other forms of pollution and sanitation, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (xiv)control of hazardous</span><span lang="YO"> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">substances</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">and removal control methods.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (l) develop
environmental monitoring networks, compile and synthesize environmental data
from all sectors other than in the oil and gas sector at national and
international levels;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (m) undertake,
coordinate, utilize and promote the expansion of research experiments, surveys
and studies by public or private agencies, institutions and organisations
concerning causes, effects, extent, prevention, reduction and elimination of
pollution and such other matters related to environmental protection and
natural resources conservation other than in the oil and gas sector as the
Agency may, from time to time, determine;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">A </span></b><b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">641</span></b><span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">National
Environmental Standards and Regulations</span></i><span lang="YO"> </span><b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">2007 No. 25<o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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Enforcement Agency (Establishment) Act<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="YO">(n) enter into agreement and contracts with
public or private organizations and individuals to develop, utilize, coordinate
and share ennvironmental monitoring programmes, research effects, and basic
data on chemical, physical and biological effects of various activities on the
environment and other environmental related activities other than in the oil
and gas sector;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (o) in collaboration
with othe relevant agencies and with the
approval of the Minister, establish programmes for setting standards and
regulations for the prevention, reduction and elimination of pollution and
other forms of environmental degradation in the nation’s air, land, oceans,
seas and other water bodies and for restoration and enhancement of the nation’s
environment and natural resources;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (p) collect and make
available , through publications and other appropriate means and in
co-operation with public or private organisations, basic scientific data and
other information pertaining to environmental standards;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (q) charge fees for
tests, investigations and other services performed by the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (r) develop and
promote such processes, methods, devices and materials as may be useful or
incidental in carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (s) do such other
things other than in the oil and gas sector as are necessary for the efficient
performance of the functions of the Agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">the Council.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">9. The
Council shall----<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(a)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">be responsible for the
appointment, promotion and discipline of the staff of the agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(b)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">advise the Agency with regard to
financial, operational and administrative matters;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(c)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">establish committees as may be
expedient which shall be charged with specific functions;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(d)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">encourage and promote activities
related to the functions of the Agency; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(e)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">carry out such other activities as
may be directed by the Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">PART III--- STRUCTURE OF THE AGENCY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">10—(1) </span></b><span lang="YO">The Agency
shall have----<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(a)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">Directorate of Administration and
Finance;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(b)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">Directorate of Planning and Policy
Analysis;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(c)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">Directorate of Inspection and
Enforcement;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(d)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">Directorate of Environmental
Quality Control; and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(e)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">Directorate of Legal Services.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(2) Each Directorate shall be headed by a
Director.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">A </span></b><b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">642</span><span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">2007 No. 25</span><span lang="YO"> </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">National Environmental Standards
And Regulations<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Enforcement Agency
(Establishment) Act<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="YO">(3) The Director of the Directorate of Legal
Services shall also function as the Legal Adviser to the Agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (4) The Agency and its
Directorates shall have adequate numbers of units and divisions as may be
required in the discharge of the functions of the Agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (5) The Agency shall
have zonal offices in the six (6) geopolitical zones of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (6) The Agency may
create such other departments, units or offices in any part of the Federation
as may be required for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">PART
IV--- STAFF OF THE AGENCY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>11.</b>---(1) The
Director-General of the Agency shall be appointed by the President on the
recommendation of the Minister.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(a) be the Chief Executive and Accounting
Officer of the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(b) be responsible for the day-to-day
administration of the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(c) be a person with good working knowledge of
the environment and with a minimum of 15 years postgraduate experience in
environmental management or related discipline;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(d) hold office for a period of 4 years on such
terms and conditions as may be specified in his letter of appointment and be
eligible for re-appointment for another period of 4 years and no more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(3)The Agency shall, from time to time, appoint
such other persons as members of staff of the Agency as it may deem necessary,
to assist the Agency in the performance of its functions under this Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (4) The appointment of
staff in the junior cadre, shall be made by the Director-General while the
appointment in the senior cadre, shall be made with the ratification and
approval of the Council.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (5) The members of
staff of the Agency appointed under subsection (3) of this section shall be
appointed on such terms and conditions of service (including remuneration,
allowances, benefits and pensions) as determined by the government.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (6) The promotion of
staff in the junior cadre shall be as recommended by the Junior Staff Committee
to the Director-General for ratification and approval.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (7) The promotion of
staff in the senior cadre shall be as recommended by the Senior Staff Committee
to the Council for ratification and approval.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Pensions <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Act No. 2 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>12.—</b>(1) The Service in the Agency shall be approved
service for the purposes of the Pension Reform Act and, accordingly, officers
and other persons employed in the Agency shall be entitled to pensions, and
other retirement benefits as are prescribed thereunder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">643</span></b><span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">National
Environmental Standards and Regulations</span></i><span lang="YO"> </span><b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">2007 No. 25 A</span><span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">Enforcement Agency
(Establishment) Act<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="YO">(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) of this section,
the Agency may appoint a person to any office on terms, which preclude the
grant of a pension or other retirement benefits in respect of that office.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (3) For the purpose of
the Pension Reform Act, any power exerciseable thereunder by a Minister or
other authority of the Government of the Federation, other than the power to
make regulations under section 34 of this Act is vested in and shll be
exercised by the Agency and not by any other person or authority.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> PART V---- FINANCIAL PROVISIONS<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> <b>13.</b>---(1) The
Agency shall establish a Fund from which shall be defrayed all expenditure
incurred by the Agency for the purposes of this Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (2) There shall be
paid and credited to the Fund of the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (a) adequate take off
grant from the Federal Government;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (b)annual subventions
and budgetary allocations from the Federal Government;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (c) loans and grants
in aid from national, bilateral and multilateral agencies;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (d)counter part
funding as may be provided from time to
time;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (e)all sums accruing
to the Agency by way of rents, fees and other internally generated revenues
from services rendered by the Agency, and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (f) all sums accruing
to the Agency by way of gifts, endowments, bequeaths or other voluntary
contributions by persons and organisations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">14.</span></b><span lang="YO"> The Agency
shall, from time and time, apply the funds at its disposal to—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(a) the cost of establishing and maintaining the
Head Office of the Agency at the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja and its
offices located in other places in
Nigeria;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (b) the cost of
compliance monitoring and enforcement activities;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (c) pay allowances and
other benefits of members of the Council and of its committees;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (d)pay the salaries
and entitlements of the Director-General and other members of staff of the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (e)pay the personnel,
overhead, allowances, pensions, gratuities, benefits and other administrative
costs of the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (f) pay for attendance
at local and international conferences related to its functions;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (g)build capacity of
members of staff of the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (h) publicize and
promote the activities of the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (i)attend national and
Internations scientific and professional seminars on environmental matters;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (j)develop and
maintain any property vested in or owned by the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (k)pay for services
and contracts entered into by the Agency; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">2007 No. 25 </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">National
Environmental Standards and Regulations<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Enforcement Agency
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<span lang="YO">(l) undertake any other activity in connection with all or any of the
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">from incom <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>15. </b>All income
derived by the Agency from the sources specified in section 13(2) of this Act
shall be exempted from income tax and all contributions to the fund of the
Agency shall be tax deductible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>16.</b> The Agency
shall submit to the President through the Minsiter, not later than 30th
September each year, its programme of work and estimates of its income and
expenditure for the following year.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> <b>17.</b>—1) The Council shall keep proper accounts of
the Agency and proper records in relations to those accounts.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> (2) The accounts of
the Agency shall be audited, not later than six months after the end of the
year to which it relates, by auditors appointed by the Agency from the list and
in accordance with the guidelines supplied by the Auditor-General of the
Federation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>18.</b> The Agency
shall prepare and submit to the Federal Executive Council, through the
Minister, not later that 30th June in each year, a report on the activities of
the Agency during the immediate preceeding year, and shall include in such
report, a copy of the audited accounts of the Agency for that year and the
auditors report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>19.</b> The Agency
may, subject to the provisions of this Act and the conditions of any trust
created in respect of any property, invest all or any of its funds in any
security prescribed by the Trustee Investment Act or in such other securities
as may, from time to time, be approved by the Minister.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Air quality and
atmosphere protection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>20.</b>---(1) The
Agency may make regulations setting specifications and standards to protect and
enhance the quality of Nigeria’s air resources, so as to promote the public
health or welfare and the natural development and productive capacity of the
nations’ human, animal, marine or plant life including, in particular;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(a)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">minimum essential air quality
standards for human, animal, marine or plant health;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(b)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">the control of concentration of
substances in the air which separately or in combination are likely to result
in damage or deterioration of property or of human, animal, marine or plant
health;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(c)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">the most appropriate means to
prevent and combat various atmospheric pollution;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="YO">control of atmospheric pollution
originating from energy sources, including that produced by aircraft and other
self-propelled vehicles, industries, factories and power generating situations
or facilities;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(e)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">standards applicable to emissions
from any new mobile or stationary source which in the Agency’s judgement causes
or contributes to air pollution which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger
public health or welfare;and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> National Environmental Standards and
Regulation</span></i><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> <b>B2007 No. 25</b><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Enforcement Agency (Establishment)
Act<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="YO">(f)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">the use of appropriate means to
reduce emission to permissible levels<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(2) The Agency may establish monitoring stations
or network to locate sources of atmospheric pollution and determine their
actual or potential danger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (3) A person who violates
the regulations made pursuant to subsection (1) of this section commits an
offence and shall on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding N200,000 or
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and
imprisonment and an additional fine of N20,000 for every day the offence
subsists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (4) Where an offence
under subsection (1) of this section is committed by a body corporate, it shall
conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding N2,000,000 and an additional fine
of N50,000 for every day the offence subsists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Ozone protection<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> <b>21.</b>---(1) The
Agency shall in collaboration with other relevant agencies undertake to study
data and recognize development in force in other countries regarding the
cumulative effects of all substances, practices, procesess and activities which may affect the stratosphere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (2) The Agency shall,
in collaboration with other relevant agencies, embark on programmes for the control of any substance,
practice, process or activity which may reasonably be anticipated to affect the
stratosphere, especially ozone in the stratosphere, when such effects may reasonably
be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (3) Where an offence
under subsection (2) of this section is committed by a body corporate, it shall
on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding N2,000,000 and an additional
fine of N50,000 for every day the offence subsists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"><o:p> </o:p></span><br /><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><b style="text-align: justify;">22.—</b><span style="text-align: justify;">(1) The
Agency shall, on the commencement of this Act, in consultation with appropriate
authorities:</span><br />
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<span lang="YO">(a)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">identify major noise sources,
noise criteria and noise control technology; and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(b)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">make regulations on noise,
emission, control, abatement, as may be necessary to preserve and maintain
public health and welfare.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(2) The Agency shall enforce compliance with
existing regulations and recommend programmes to control noise originating from
industrial, commercial, domestic, sports, recreational, transportation or other
similar activities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (3) A person who
violates the Regulations made pursuant to sub-section (1) of this section
commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding
N50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both such
fine and imprisonment and an additional fine of N5,000 for every day the
offence subsists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(4)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">Where an offence under subsection
(3) of this section is committed by a body corporate, it shall on conviction be
liable to a fine not exceeding N500,000 and an additional fineof N10,000 for
every day the offence subsists<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">A
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Federal water
quality standards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>23.</b>—(1) The
Agency shall in collaboration with other relevant agencies make regulations for
the purpose of protecting public health or welfare and enhancing the quality of
water to serve the purpose of this Act.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> (2) In drawing up
proposals for such regulations and standards, the Agency shall take into
consideration the use and value of public water supplies, propagation of marine
and wildlife, recreational purposes, agricultural, industrial and other
legitimate use.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (3) A person who
violates the provisions of the regulations made pursuant to subsection (1) of
this section, commits an offence and shall on conviction, be liable to a fine
not exceeding N50,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or
to both such fine and imprisonment and an additional fine of N5,000 for every
day the offence subsists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (4) Where an offence
under subsection (1) of this section is committed by a body corporate,it shall
on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding N50,000 and an additional fine
of N10,000 for every day the offence subsists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Effluent
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<span lang="YO"> <b>24.</b>—(1) The
Agency shall, on the commencement of the Act, review effluent limtiations for
existing point sources which shall require the application of the best
management practices, under circumstances as determined by the Agency, and
shall include, schedules of compliance for installation and operation of the
best management practices.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> (2) The Agency shall,
on the commencement of the Act, review effluent limitations for existing point
sources which shall require the application of the best management practices, under
circumstances as determined by the Agency, and shall include, schedules of
compliance for installation and operation of the best practicable control
technology as determined by the Agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> 3) Notwithstanding the
existing regulations in force, other than in the oil and gas sector, the Agency
may make regulations on effluent limitations, on existing and new point
sources, for the protection of human, animal, marine and plant life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (4) A person who
violates the provisions of the regulations made pursuant to subsection (3) of
this section, commits an offence and shall on conviction, be liable to a fine
not exceeding N200,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or
to both such fine and imprisonment and an additional fine of N5,000 for every
day the offence subsists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (5) Where an offence
under subsection (3) of this section is committed by a body corporate, it shall
on conviction, be liable to a fine, not exceeding N1,000,000 and an additional
fine of N50,000 for every day the offence subsists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Environmental
sanitation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> <b>25.</b>---(1) The
Agency may make regulations for the purpose of protecting public health and
promotion of sound environmental sanitation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (2) A person who
violates the provisions of the regulations made pursuant to sub-section (1) of
this section shall be guilty of an offence and punished under the penalties
imposed in the regulations made pursuant thereto.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">A 647</span></b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Land resources and
watershed quality.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">26.</span></b><span lang="YO">—(1) The Agency
may make regulations, guidelines and standards for the protection and
enhancement of the quality of land resources, natural watershed, coastal zone,
dams and reservoirs including prevention of flood and erosion, to serve the
purpose of this Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(2) In drawing proposals for such regulations,
guidelines or standards, the Agency shall take into consideration the Zoning
Acts, Municipal Development Guidelines and Building Codes to prevent sitting of
essential facilities on flood plain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(3) A person who violates the provisions of the
regulations made pursuant to subsection (1) of this section, commits an offence
and shall on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding N200,000 or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and
imprisonment and an additional fine of N10,000 for every day the offence
subsists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(4) Where an offence under subsection (1) of
this section is committed by a body corporate,it shall on conviction, be liable
to a fine not exceeding N1,000,000 and an additional fine of N50,000 for every
day the offence subsists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Discharge of
hazardous <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">and related <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">offences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">27.</span></b><span lang="YO">—(1) The
discharge in such harmful quantities of any hazardous substance into the air or
upon the land and the waters of Nigeria or
at the adjoining shorelines is prohibited, except where such discharge
is permitted or authorized under any law in force in Nigeria.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO">(2) A person who violates the provisions of
subsection (1) of this Section, commits an offence and is liable on conviction,
to a fine , not exceeding N1,000,000 or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding 5 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(3) Where an offence under subsection (1) of
this section is committed by a body corporate, every person who at the time the
offence was committed was in charge of the body corporate shall be deemed to be
guilty of such offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished
accordingly provided that nothing contained in this subsection shall render any
person liable to any punishment,if he proves that the offence was committed
without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligience to prevent the
commission of such offence.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of this
section or any other sections of this Act, the provisions of the Harmful Waste
(Special Criminal Provisions, etc) Act shall apply in respect of any hazardous
substance constituting harmful waste as defined in section 37 of this Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">23.</span></b><span lang="YO"> The Minister
for the purpose of implementing the provisions of this Act, shall by
regulations prescribe any specific removal method, financial responsibility
level for owners or operators of vessels,or onshore or offshore facilities
notice and reporting requirements<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">A 648<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> 2007
No. 25 </span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">National
Environmental Standards and Regulations<o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> Enforcement Agency (Establishment)
Act<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Co-operation <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">with<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>29. </b>The Agency shall co-operate with other Government
agencies for the removal of any pollutant excluding oil and gas related ones
discharged into the Nigerian environment and shall enforce the application of
best clean-up technology currently available and implementation of best
management practices as appropriate.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Powers to enter
premises<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">PART VII---MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> <b>30<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">—</span></b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">(1) An officer of the Agency
may, in the course of his duty, at any</span> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">reasonable time and on production of his certificate of
designation if so required:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (a) enter and search with a warrant issued by a court,
any premises including land, vehicle, tent, vessel, floating craft except
Maritime Tankers, Barges or Floating Production, Storages, Offload (FPSO) and
oil and gas facilities or any inland water and other structures, at all times,
for the purpose of conducting, inspection, searching and taking samples for
analysis which he reasonably believes, carries out activities or stores goods
which contravene environmental standards or legislation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (b) examine any article found pursuant to paragraph (a)
of this subsection which appears to him
to be an article to which this Act or the regulations made under apply or
anything which he reasonably believes is capable of being used to the detriment
of the environment;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (c) take a sample or specimen of any article to which
this Act or the regulations apply or which he has power to examine under
paragraph (b) of this subsection;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (d) open and examine, pursuant to paragraph (a) of this
subsection, any container or package which he reasonably believes may contain
anthing to which this Act or its regulations apply or which may help in his
investigations;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (e) examine any book, document or other record found
pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection, which he reasonably believes may
contain any information relevant to the enforcement of this Act or the
regulations and make copies thereof or extracts there from;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (f) seize and detain for such time as may be necessary
for the purpose of this Act, any article by means of or in relation to which he
reasonable believes any provision of this Act or the regulations has been
contravened; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (g) obtain an order of a court to suspend activities, seal
and close down premises including land, vehicle, tent, vessel, floating craft
or any inland water and other structure whatsoever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (2) A written receipt shall be given for any article or
thing seized under subsection (1) of this section and the reason for such
seizure shall be stated on such receipt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (3) An article seized under this Act shall be kept or
stored in such a place as the officer of the Agency may direct and shall be
returned to the owner or the person from whom it was seized if the article upon
analysis or examination is found to conform with the requirements of this Act
or regulations made under it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;"> (4) An article other than in the oil and gas sector,
seized by an officer of the Agency in pursuance of this Act or the regulations
made under it, may be submitted<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">A 649</span></b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 10pt;"> National Environmental
Standards and Regulations <b> </b> <b>2007 No. 25<o:p></o:p></b></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; font-size: 10pt;"> Enforcement
Agency (Establishment) Act<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">to an analyst for
analysis or examination and the analyst upon making such analysis or
examination shall, issue a ceritifcate or report in the prescribed form,
setting forth the result of such analysis or examination and the officer of the
Agency shall, on demand, deliver a copy of such certificae or report to the
owner of the article if the article is to be the subject of a proceeding under
this Act or regulations thereunder.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">(5)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">In this section, the expression “article” to which this
Act or regulations made under it apply are :<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">(a)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">liquid, soil, vegetation;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">(b)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">biological and chemical samples;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">(c)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">particulate filters, air quality gauges; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(d)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: yellow; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">such other articles or samples as may be determined by
the Agency.</span><span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">31.</span></b><span lang="YO"> A person who obstructs an officer of the
Agency in the performance of his duties under section 3 of this Act commits an
offence and is liable on conviction to a fine of not less than N200,000 for an
individual or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both such
fine and imprisonment, and an additional fine of N20,000 for each day the
offence subsist and in the case of a
body corporate, it shall be liable for a fine of N2,000,000, on conviction and
an additional fine of N200,000 for everyday the offence subsist.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> <b>32.</b>—(1) A suit
shall not be commenced against the Agency before the expiration of a period of one month, after written notice of
intention to commence the suit shall have been served on the Agency by the
intending plaintiff or his agent and the notice shall clearly state the:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(a)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">cause of action;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(b)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">particulars of claim;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(c)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">name and place of abode of the
intending plaintiff; and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(d)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">relief which he claims.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(2) The notice referred to in subsection (1) of
this section and any summons, notice or other ducument required or authorized
to be served on the Agency under the provisions of this Act or any other
enactment or law may be served by---<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(a)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">delivery the same to the office of
the Director-General; or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(b)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">sending it by registered post
addressed to the Director-General at the Head Office of the Agency.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(3) Subject to the provisions of section 174 of
the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, (which relates to the
power of the Attorney-General of the Federation to institute , continue or
discontinue criminal proceedings against any person in a court of law), an
officer of the Agency may, with the consent of the Attorney-General of the
Federation, conduct criminal proceedings in respect of offences under this Act
or regulations made under this Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">A
650<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO">(4) In a judicial proceeding for an offence
under this Act or any regulation made under it, the provisions of the Criminal
Procedure Act or depending on the venue, the Criminal Procedure Code shall,
with such modification as the circumstance may require, apply in respect of
such matter to the same extent as they apply to the trial offences generally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Power of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Minister to <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">give <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">directives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> <b>33.</b> The Minister
may give directives of a general or special nature to the Agency relating to
its functions under this Act, and the Agency shall comply and give effect to
the directives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Power to <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">make <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">regulations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b><span lang="YO">34.</span></b><span lang="YO"> The Minister
shall make regulations:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (a) to prescribe the
methodologies for private sector payments into the fund of the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (b) to prescribe the
fees to be paid for services rendered by the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (c) generally for the
purposes of carrying out or giving full effects to the functions of the Agency
under this Act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Application <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Cap 123 LFN <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">2004.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>35. </b>Every other requirement, certificate, notice,
direction, decision, authorization, consent, application, request, agreement or
thing made, issued, given or done under any enactment repealed by this Act
shall, if in force at the commencement of this Act, continue to be in force and
have effect as if made, issued, given or done under the corresponding
provisions of this Act.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Repeal of <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">Cap F 10 <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;">LFN,2004.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>36.</b> The Federal Environmental protection Agency
Act is repealed.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">37. </span></b><span lang="YO">In this Act---<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
<span lang="YO"> “Agency” means the
National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency established
under section 1 of this Act;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Appropriate authorities” means
any government agency which has jurisdiction over the land or water affected by
the pollution or any government agency which ordinarily has jurisdiction or any
government over the operation which led to the pollution;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Authorised authorities or officer” means any employee of the Agency
any Police officer not below the rank of Inspector of Police or any custom
officer;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Chairman” means the Chairman of the Agency appointed under section 3
(1) 1999;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Constitution” means the Constitution of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, 1999;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">‘’Court’’ means the Federal or State High Court;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Council” means the Council of the Agency established under section 3
of this Act;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">A 651</span></b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span lang="YO">“Director-General” means the Director-General of the National
Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency;<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO"> “Disposal” includes
both land based disposal and dumping in waters and air space of Nigeria;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Effluent limitation” means any restriction
established by the Agency of quantities, rates and concentration of chemical,
physical, biological or other consutituents which are discharged from point
sources into the waters in Nigeria;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Environment” includes water, air, land and all
plants and human beings or animals living therein and the inter-relationships
which exist among these or any of them;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Hazardous substances” means any chemical,
physical or biological radioactive materials that poses a threat to human health
and the environment or any such substance regulated under international
conventions to which Nigeria is a party or signatory e.g. Montreal Protocol,
Rotterdam Convention, Stockholm Convention etc.
And includes any substance designated as such by the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria by order published in the Federal Gazette;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“He” means male or female gender;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Member” means a member of the Council and
includes the Chairman;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Minister” means the Minister charged with the
responsibility of the environment;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“New source” means any source, the construction
of which is commenced after the publication of any regulations prescribing a
standard to such source;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Officer” means qualified persons employed to
act in that capacity by the Agency;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Offshore facility” means any facility
(including but not limited to motor vehicles and rolling stock) of any kind
located over, in, or under any land within Nigeria other than submerged land;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> </span><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“Owner” or “Operator” means, in the case of---<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(a)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">vesel, any person owning,
operating or chartering by demise such vessel;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="YO">an onshore facility or an offshore
facility, any person owning or operating such onshore facility or offshore
facility; and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span><span lang="YO">any abandoned offshore facility,
the person who owned or operated such facility immediately prior to such
abandonment;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“point source” means any discernible, confined and
discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel,
tunnel, conduct, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated
animal feeding operation or vessel or other floating craft from which
pollutants are or may be discharged;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">“President” means the President of the
Federal Republic of Nigeria;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></b><span lang="YO"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="YO">“Pollution” means man-made or man-aided
alteration or chemical, physical,or biological quality of the environment
beyond acceptable limits and “pollutants” shall be construed accordingly;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> “Removal” means
removal of hazardous substances from the environment of Nigeria or the taking
of such action as may be necessary to minimize or mitigate damage to the public
health or welfare, ecology and natural resources of Nigeria;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> “Stratosphere” means
the part of the atmosphere above the troposphere;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> “Water of Nigeria”
means all water resources in any form including atmospheric , surface and
sub-surface, and under ground water resources where the water resources are
interstate, or in the Federal Capital Territory, Territorial Waters, Exclusive
Economic Zone or in any other area under the jurisdiction of the Federal
Government of Nigeria.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">38.</span></b><span lang="YO">This Act may be
cited as the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement
Agency (Establishment) Act, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">National
Environmental Standards and Regulations</span></i><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> <b>2007 No. 25 </b></span><b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 8pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Enforcement
Agency (Establishment) Act<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 10pt;">SCHEDULE Section
3(5) </span><span lang="YO"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">Procedings of the Council<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> <b>1.</b>---(1)
Subject to the provisions of this Act and section 27 of the Interpretation Act,
the Council may make standing orders regulating its proceedings or those of any
of its committees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (2) The quorum of the
Council shall be the Chairman or the person presiding at the meeting and 5
other members of the Council including the Director-General, and the quorum of
any committee of the Council shall be as determined by the Council<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> 2.---(1) The Council
shall meet whenever it is summoned by the Chairman and if the Chairman is
required to do so by notice given to him by not less than 8 other members, he
shall summon a meeting of the Council to be held within 14 days from the date on
which the notice is given.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (2) At any meeting of
the council, the Chairman shall preside but if he is absent, the members
present at the meeting shall appoint one of them to preside at the meeting.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (3) Where the Council
desires to obtain the advice of any person on a particularr matter, the Council
may co-opt him to the Council for such period as it deems fit, but a person who
is in attendance by virtue of this sub-paragraph shall not be entitled to vote
at any meeting of the Council and shall not count towards a quorum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> 3.----(1) The Council
may establish one or more committees to carry out, on behalf of the Council,
such functions as the Council may determine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (2) A committee
established under this paragaph shall consist of such number of persons as may
be determined by the Council and a person shall hold office on the committee in
accordance with the terms of his appointment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (3) A decision of a committee of the council
shall be of no effect untill it is ratified by the Council.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> 4.---(1) The fixing of the seal of the Agency shall be
authenticated by the signature of the Chairman, the Director-General or any
person generally or specifically authorized by the Council to act for that
purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (2) A contract or
instrument which, if made or executed by a person not being a body corporate,
would not be required to be under seal may be made or executed on behalf of the
Agency by the Director-General or any person generally or specifically
authorized by the Council to act for that purpose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> (3) A document
purporting to be a document duly executed under the seal of the Agency shall be
received in evidence and shall, unless and untill the contrary is proved, be
presumed to be so executed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">4. The
validity of any proceedings of the Council or of a committee shall not be
adversly affected by ----<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(a)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">a vacancy in the membership of the
council or committee;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(b)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">a defect in the appointment of a
member of the Council or committee; or<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">(c)<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span lang="YO">reason that a person entitled to
do so took part in proceedings of the Council or committees.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">I Certify, in accordance with Section 2 (1) of
the Acts Authentication Act, Cap. A2, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 2004,
that this is a true copy of the Bill passed by both Houses of the National
Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> NASIRU
IBRAHIM ARAB,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO"> Clerk
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<span lang="YO"> 19th
Day of July, 2007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">EXPLANATORY
MEMORANDUM<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="YO">This Act establishes the National
Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency for the effective
enforcement of standards, Regulations and all national and international
agreements, treaties, conventions and protocols on environment to which Nigeria
is a signatory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="YO">SCHEDULE
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<b><span lang="YO" style="font-size: 11pt;">ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (ESTABLISHMENT) BILL, 2007<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 11pt;">National Environmental Standards and
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charged with responsibility for the protection of the environment in Nigeria;
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<span lang="YO" style="font-size: 11pt;">I certify that this Bill
has been carefully compared by me with the decision reached by the National
Assembly and found by me to be true and
correct decision of the Houses and is in accordance with the provisions
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<br /></div>Midas Bosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05903950557822739186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-8801766889245574632012-04-11T17:16:00.000+01:002014-04-14T22:23:21.751+01:00CONVENTION ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION, PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN DECISION-MAKING AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS done at Aarhus, Denmark 25 June 1998<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT;"></span>Midas Bosshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05903950557822739186noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-39350739812156167102012-04-11T14:09:00.001+01:002012-04-11T14:11:42.863+01:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibFZXB7o2i5PCHVT82s_esIkHjTnH9JHnT4r8caoOZv1L5fhW4gHWP7goQTLsVIY3vRqNlr25cK5-kTEflgKjOkc72WeIHKFgflTFeFlFevVnEKcibhzt3ayIftWfnUjxZ5948DVZrXDd6/s1600/jhigcihdvbfhivb.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnEX6KE0BIqztlJv0vrNS5t6MWd4N4mzY6JqTGtf5W4WiVYN7SfoSt6RKeiggeuFRMhUCvMSaCjiqzRSBk_DVQa3r7eJSc1atWP7Gku1kBcZAUMx6Pm5RqHp-LZmr8xQARF_lqpFXV3ZAu/s1600/ujsdghvbdvb.jpeg" /></a>The National Environmental Standards and Regulation Enactment Agency (NESREA), is an agency of the Ministry of Environment Housing and Urban Development which is charged with the responsibility of enforcing environmental laws , regulations and standards and deterring people , industries and organization from polluting and degrading the environment.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLleU2Xb6Q6r1hYIE5DC7CypYAzs2P3YvpzSUzAD5fjyJglnd4KVMhZsChICz34weHZZ8Ikbx3-ExKL0R-0hdbPfABjOb_kyv447h3O1lqmPygI10dbLiGrdBbcphNAS7VNbCxpvwjKK2D/s1600/erhogrjb.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLleU2Xb6Q6r1hYIE5DC7CypYAzs2P3YvpzSUzAD5fjyJglnd4KVMhZsChICz34weHZZ8Ikbx3-ExKL0R-0hdbPfABjOb_kyv447h3O1lqmPygI10dbLiGrdBbcphNAS7VNbCxpvwjKK2D/s1600/erhogrjb.jpeg" /></a>The NESREA Act was signed into law by president Umaru Musa Yar,Adua GCFR and this has been published in the Federal republic of Nigeria Official Gazette No 92 vol 94 of 31st July , 2007<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWwnyzAa06xx9ej2AhLLkbXmy76fAz6QOJlvLtHvZEEwk9ir7A3W19bbAALXvcVTCq7Lk9POAcTs0S38pQkzeRjy4ZrVQiO234WYwsrgMYgZCyntN-IB2T5nHTf837rMtz_GF3suqY7LV/s1600/images.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyWwnyzAa06xx9ej2AhLLkbXmy76fAz6QOJlvLtHvZEEwk9ir7A3W19bbAALXvcVTCq7Lk9POAcTs0S38pQkzeRjy4ZrVQiO234WYwsrgMYgZCyntN-IB2T5nHTf837rMtz_GF3suqY7LV/s1600/images.jpeg" /></a>The duties of this act is like that of FEPA , NESREA has responsibility for the protection and development of the protection of the environment , biodiversity conservation and sustainable development of the Nigeria's natural resources in general and environmental technology. THIS Act works for the regulation of oil spilage but does not cover the oil and Gas Industry.<br />
The applicable body for oil and gas is DPR which has the power on petroleum industry .<br />
FOCUS OF NESREA:<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixJEKO9E_n7MwgnGYtu-uqbrjzhCk81U6oTXOPrzqnusxc_VuR8n7WlKdWUha4_vcA94ZjU-Zo0zeedL72p3BoaH0fvfpNnqwHvbsYlTz7QuIbHBg_EtMR92UF5Gctr0dEzCT7iSx3fynt/s1600/gas+flerring.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixJEKO9E_n7MwgnGYtu-uqbrjzhCk81U6oTXOPrzqnusxc_VuR8n7WlKdWUha4_vcA94ZjU-Zo0zeedL72p3BoaH0fvfpNnqwHvbsYlTz7QuIbHBg_EtMR92UF5Gctr0dEzCT7iSx3fynt/s1600/gas+flerring.jpeg" /></a></div>1. To protect the environment.<br />
2. TO ENFORCE LAWS AND REGULATIONS ON THE ENVIRONMENT<br />
3. To Maintain environmental awareness.<br />
4. To engage in relevant partnership that will promote protection of the environment.<br />
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(Presented by deji Yusuf @www.dejiyusuf.blogspot.com)<br />
hey pal check out this link! bit.ly/IkjyrHdeji yusufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10681133572106759377noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-75119084978809446952012-04-09T11:27:00.000+01:002012-04-09T22:32:56.878+01:00HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN NIGERIA AND GBEMRE V. SHELL JUDGEMENTPlease read the following article "<a href="https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCsQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iucnael.org%2Fen%2Fdocuments%2Fdoc_download%2F70-adejonwo-osho-the-evolution-of-human-rights-approaches-to-environmental-protection-in-nigeria-.html&ei=hraCT-zpE8GcOveF6ewG&usg=AFQjCNGlif407uqs1m0mi02MScwdZEUKcA&sig2=MhonQaop1X0TwdXk3s_mWA" target="_blank">THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION IN NIGERIA</a>" as it deals with human rights in Nigeria in relation to the adequacy or vice versa of environmental protection. Also see this <a href="http://www.climatelaw.org/cases/case-documents/nigeria/ni-shell-nov05-judgment.pdf" target="_blank">GBEMRE v SHELL</a> link for the full judgement of the court in that case as covered and discussed in class.<br />
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Ayodele Morocco-ClarkeLASULAWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040395997034567500noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1205844542140562530.post-87683950208758392202012-03-30T01:26:00.003+01:002012-09-02T12:25:34.864+01:00FURTHER READING MATERIALS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LAW COURSE<b>IMPORTANT</b> - Ensure you read the articles which appear on the following links (Click the article titles). The one titled "<i><a href="http://www.geplaw.com/media/Publications/Environmental%20Legislation%20Changes%20in%20Nigeria.pdf?phpMyAdmin=17c4d67d23et18bb5773r72bc">Environmental Legislation Changes in Nigeria: What Impact on Foreign Investment?</a></i>" is useful for the development of environmental legislation in Nigeria (i.e. up to when the Federal Environmental Protection Act [FEPA] was passed into law). The second one titled "<i><a href="http://www.iclg.co.uk/khadmin/Publications/pdf/1191.pdf">The International Comparative Legal Guide to Environment Law 2007</a></i>", makes interesting general reading.<br />
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<b>Warning: Both materials are years old and do not always reflect the current state of legislation in Nigeria.</b><br />
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Signed,<br />
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Ayodele Morocco-ClarkeLASULAWShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08040395997034567500noreply@blogger.com0