After
complete Environment Impact Assessment take the form of a project-specific
action plan defining a comprehensive, formalized and coordinated frame work for
environmental management, which is appropriate to the environmental and
institutional setting of the project. The EMP will set out, clearly and
concisely:
•the objectives
of environmental management together with the reasons for introducing an
environmental management system
•the impacts
which are to be controlled, and the control (mitigation) measures to be adopted
•the
responsibilities for implementation of the control measures and the
organizational framework necessary for their implementation
•the resources
(including financial resources) necessary for effective management and monitoring,
together with institutional strengthening and training requirements which need to
be implemented if effective environmental management is to be achieved
•the overall
program for establishment of effective environmental management for the project
Environmental
monitoring is viewed as an essential tool to be used in environmental
management, to assess the effectiveness of the benefit enhancement and
mitigation measures, and to check that no unforeseen impacts are occurring. An environmental monitoring
plan will therefore be developed, which is fully integrated with the management
plan. The nature of the key impacts /associated with project implementation is
likely to be such that
instrumental monitoring of, for example, air and water pollution parameters.
Monitoring in the form of making checks that specified actions have been taken,
coupled with visual observations on site, is much more likely to form the main
thrust of an effective monitoring effort. Compliance monitoring during
construction will therefore be given particular emphasis.
All
monitoring recommendations will be made for specific purposes, which are
directly related to overall environmental management and the control of
specific impacts.
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