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environmental impact assessment

an assessment of the environmental impact of a proposed INVESTMENT project such as a new road or by-pass to determine the extent of any POLLUTION effects and destruction of natural habitats. Government authorities in the European Union are now required to undertake an environmental impact assessment of a proposed public investment project. See COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS.

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Challenges had been filed by several state and local governments in the region, as well as a citizens group, claiming that the FAA didn't properly perform an environmental impact study of the changes in air traffic patterns that would result from the redesign.

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The agency will first be required to undertake an environmental impact study to show the effects of a hunt on the state's wolves.

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Mr Andrews, who plans an environmental impact study, says the plant will create thousands of jobs.

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An environmental impact study was done, but, as Justice Bucaria found, it was not done properly.

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Another problem, known as segmentation, occurs when companies apply for permits for smaller areas than they actually plan to mine, which allows them to bypass the burden of an environmental impact study. One of the major mine sites in Tennessee actually spans seven permitted zones, but as anyone can see it's just one vast, interconnected mine."

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On December 1, the environmental impact study and licence application will be submitted to the relevant authorities.

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Bowing to increased pressure from local environmental groups who argued that increased oil transport endangered Croatia's pristine Adriatic, the previous Cabinet ordered an environmental impact study. It was completed in June but must first be publicly discussed in the local communities through which the pipeline runs.

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Several environmental, consumer, and labor groups are trying to keep them out on the grounds that the federal government failed to conduct an environmental impact study. When a San Francisco federal appeals court sided with treaty opponents and ruled that such a study was necessary, the Bush Administration took the case to the Supreme Court.

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An environmental impact study of the effect the work will be assessed together with the application.

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Orkney and Shetland Lib-Dem MP Alistair Carmichael received a written Commons reply saying the ships will not be given permission to sail off Scotland's coast until a full environmental impact study has been completed.

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Scientists from the Elliot Lake field research station conducted an extensive environmental impact study, testing water, soil and studying wildlife on 41 area lakes to determine how much development is permissible without harming water quality and fish habitat.