Environmental Management Plan (EMP)

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.