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Enforcement Order of the Environmental Impact Assessment Act(Cabinet Order No. 346 of 1997).

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Type of law
Regulation
Date of original text
Date of latest amendment
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Abstract
This Cabinet Order is enacted to implement the Environmental Impact Assessment Act (Act No. 81 of 1997).
The Cabinet Order makes provisions for: requirements to be satisfied by Class-1 Projects, the benefits set forth in Article 2, paragraph (2), item (ii), (b) of the Act, period for submission of the Minister of the Environment's opinions on documents regarding primary environmental impact consideration, period for submission of opinions of the issuers of license on an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), etc. Class 1 projects include, among other things, projects made under the River Law of 1964 and the Waterworks Law of 1957.
Notes
Consolidated version of Cabinet Order No. 346 of 1997 as amended last by Cabinet Order No. 322 of 2016.
Repealed
No
Source language

English

Legislation Amendment
No
Original title
環境影響評価法施行令(平成九年政令第三百四十六号).