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Practice of EIA Inquiry Committee
in Japanese Local Governments
IAIA 27th Annual Conference
6 June 2007 Seoul, KOREA
Shigeo NISHIKIZAWA and Yasuhiro FUJII
The University of Shiga Prefecture
1
Viewpoint and Objective
• Transparency
• Third Party Check System
EIC=EIA Inquiry Committee : Local Governments
To examine the validity of EIA
• Procedures of inquiry are left to …
Ordinances or discretion
 To clarify the practical conditions of EIC
2
Methodology
• Ordinances or Guidelines of EIA
• Panel Survey ( Nov.-Dec., 2006 )
56 Local Governments：collecting rate=100%
44 Prefectures + 12 Ordinance-designated cities
EIA officer answer on the basis of…
projects within 5 years
3
Questionnaire
• Contents of the Inquiry by EIC
EIA guideline?, Scoping document?, DEIS? …etc
• Member of EIC
The number of committee members?,
Officer’s opinion of committee member?
• Procedures of inquiry
Period for inquiry?,
Committees conduct project-site survey?
• Disclosure of EIC
Meeting?, Minute?, Announcement on the internet?
4
Contents of inquiry regulated by ordinance
～56 Local Governments～
Contents of Inquiry
Number of Local Gov.
Guideline of
EIA tech.
53
Scoping
Document
41
3
(95%)
(73%)
Yamanashi Pref., Toyama Pref.,
51
(91%)city
Fukuoka Pref. and Yokohama
DEIS
FEIS
4
Follow Up
Document
47
5
0%
4 1
(84%)
20
21
15
25%
compulsory
3
12
50%
discretion
75%
100%
no provision
5
Practical condition of Inquiry
～no provision, discretion～
Contents of Inquiry
Guideline of no provision 1 2
EIA Tech.
Scoping
Document
discretion
12
no provision
Fukuoka Pref.
3
discretion
DEIS
All committees have examined for
all project
examine
4
no provision 1
All committees haven’t examined
except for Okinawa Pref.
discretion 1 4
FEIS
not examine
no provision
47
discretion
2
Follow up
Document no provision 1
0
19
Only Shizuoka, Okinawa and
Kagawa Pref. have examined
19
10
20
30
Number of Local Gov.
40
506
Reality and Ideal of Committee Member
Number of
Local Gov.
60
56 56
Realities
Ideal (Officer’s opinion)
50
EIA system experts are not enough
41
37
40
35
Kawasaki City:
necessity to be
appointed by
PA
29
30
42
23
20
10
0
0
EIA
System
Ecology
Climate
Change
1
Sustainability
Public
Science
Advertisement
Committee Member’s Major field
7
Procedure: Period for inquiry
Month
Completion of Scoping ～ Submission of DEIS
48
Max :Longest period project
42
Min :Shortest period project
36
30
Spend more than 1 year in order to consider impact
caused by the changes of seasons
24
3 days
18
12
Proponents have conducted the greater part of
the survey at the scoping process
6
Kawasaki
Kit a- Kyu sh u
Fu ku o ka
Eh im e
Hir o sh im a
Yo ko h am a
Sh iga
Iwat e
Kyo t o
Ao m o r i
Osaka
Osaka C it y
Aic h i
Gifu
Sh im an e
Ku m am o t o
Fu ku o ka C it y
Local Governments
Sappo r o
Kan agawa
Fu ku sh im a
M iyazaki
Yam agu c h i
To kyo
Nago ya
Sait am a
Niigat a
Nagasaki
Tiba
M ie
Se n dai
Hir o sh im a
Okayam a
Okin awa
0
8
Project‐site survey conducted by the committee
Project Phase
Saitama Pref. Yamanashi Pref. have
40
conducted at the all stages.
202
Project
Project
Implementation
Implementation
（n=51)
(n=51)
0%
4
40
3
3
4
6
4
9
14
Most of committees have conducted at either stage
20
6
4
8
9
6
6
14
39
202
8
39
Project10
2 10Project
Completion
Completion
（n=50)
(n=50)
3
Number of Local governments
Scoping
Scoping
(n=56)
20
（n=56)
DEIS
DEIS
(n=53)
（n=53)
3
37
2 10
0%
10
25%
everytime
Conduct conduct
everytime
37
25%
conduct
50%
50%
fifty-fifty
fifty-fifty
fifty-fifty
75%
75%
100%
not Do
conduct
at at
all all
not Conduct
not
conduct
9
100
Disclosure of EIC
confere
nce
Minutes
open
closed
open
50
6
full text
specify the
name
announce on the web
not announce on the
web
withhold the
name
13
13 37
11
summary
15
closed
Inquiry
Report
open
4
announce on the web
not announce on the
web
12
37
closed
Member
List
open
52
49
0
announce on the web
not announce on the
web
43
13
closed
56
0
announce on the web
Committee
of Saitama
Pref. is so excellent in
Scoping Document,
DEIS
etc
announce on the
information disclosure that satisfiesnot
all
conditions.
web
14
42
10 56
Conclusions
１）It is cleared that most committees examine scoping
documents and DEISs. To the contrary, few committees
examine FEIS and follow up documents.
２）All of the committees appoint ecology-experts. However,
EIA system-experts are appointed at a few committees
because of short supply.
３）Most of survey for EIA have been completed for less than
one year. It implies that the greater part of survey have been
conducted at the scoping process.
4 ） Saitama prefecture’s committee has been taking appropriate
measures for disclosure. In future, it should be improved the
announcement on the internet in many local governments.11

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