EIA360° — Environmental Impact Assessment & Management

Screening against listed activities

Select the jurisdiction, tick every listed activity the project entails — the most rigorous triggered route wins

🇧🇼 Botswana

🇿🇦 South Africa

🇳🇦 Namibia

Environmental Assessment Act regime (post-2021 amendment) — listed activities

Sensitive areas

Any development in environmentally sensitive areas: national parks, game reserves, WMAs, wetlands, flood plains, breeding areas, protected/hilly areas, rare or endangered flora-fauna areas; within 0.5 km of open surface water; within 1 km of cultural/archaeological sites — All projects

Schedule 1 (2021) · Sensitive areas → EIA

Energy

Solar power generation — < 5 MW

Schedule 1 (2021) · Energy — solar → EMP

Solar power generation — > 5 MW

Schedule 1 (2021) · Energy — solar → EIA

Thermal power generation — ≤ 15 MW

Schedule 1 (2021) · Energy — thermal → EMP

Thermal power generation — > 15 MW

Schedule 1 (2021) · Energy — thermal → EIA

Transboundary power transmission lines — > 132 kV and < 230 kV, or < 15 km (outside urban/industrial)

Schedule 1 (2021) · Power lines → EMP

Power transmission lines — ≥ 230 kV or > 15 km; domestic ≥ 132 kV outside built-up areas

Schedule 1 (2021) · Power lines → EIA

Service stations / petroleum installations — 92 000 – 200 000 L

Schedule 1 (2021) · Petroleum → EMP

Service stations / petroleum installations; bulk petroleum storage — > 200 000 L (bulk storage: all)

Schedule 1 (2021) · Petroleum → EIA

Mining

Mining in a river or wetland (regardless of size); quarrying and mineral exploitation; hydrocarbons incl. coal — All projects

Schedule 1 (2021) · Mining → EIA

Mineral processing — EMP < 500 000 t/yr (non-metallic < 10 000 t/yr); EIA above

Schedule 1 (2021) · Mineral processing → EIAverify

Waste

Dump sites; incinerators < 50 kg/hr; e-waste recycling facilities

Schedule 1 (2021) · Waste → EMP

Landfills; incinerators > 50 kg/hr; energy-recovery/recycling plants; radioactive waste (all)

Schedule 1 (2021) · Waste → EIA

Infrastructure

Tarred roads < 20 km; gravel roads < 60 km

Schedule 1 (2021) · Roads → EMP

Tarred roads > 20 km; gravel roads > 60 km

Schedule 1 (2021) · Roads → EIA

Water

Levees, barrages and weirs

Schedule 1 (2021) · Water infrastructure → EMP

Dams — > 50 000 m³ capacity or wall > 5 m

Schedule 1 (2021) · Water infrastructure → EIA

Well-fields — < 10 000 m³/day

Schedule 1 (2021) · Well-fields → EMP

Well-fields — > 10 000 m³/day

Schedule 1 (2021) · Well-fields → EIA

Agri-industrial

Abattoirs — All projects

Schedule 1 (2021) · Food → EIAverify

Agriculture

Cattle feedlots — 250 – 500 head

Schedule 1 (2021) · Agriculture → EMP

Cattle feedlots — ≥ 500 head

Schedule 1 (2021) · Agriculture → EIA

Tourism

Hospitality facilities — ≥ 200 guest rooms on unserviced land (sensitive-area developments caught by the sensitive-areas row)

Schedule 1 (2021) · Tourism → EIA

Catch-all

Projects with protected-area effects, public outcry/displacement, complex or poorly-understood effects, resource pre-emption, or precipitation modification — All projects

Schedule 1 (2021) · Catch-all → EIA

Determination

No listed activities selected — no assessment route triggered.

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