List of Prescribed Projects

LIST A

List of projects for which EIA is mandatory

Al. AGRICULTURE /AQUACULTURE PROJECTS

1. Agricultural drainage projects of more than 1 ha.
2. Irrigation schemes designed to serve more than 10 ha.
3. Land development for the purposes of agriculture on greater than a 20 ha land holding.
4. Agricultural projects necessitating their resettlement of 20 or more families. Any change form one agricultural land use to another on greater than a 20 ha land holding.
5. Use of more than 1 tone of fertiliser per hectare per annum on greater than a 20 ha landholding except for lime applications
6. Use of the following concentrations of pesticides on greater than a 5 ha holding:
• more than 5 l/ha of ultra low volume pesticides per application; or
• more than 1 l/ha of aerial application of pesticides; or
• more than 20kg/ha for each application of granular pesticides.
7. Construction of fish-farming or ornamental pond(s) where the capacity is greater than 100 cubic metres or where there is any direct discharge from a fishpond to a receiving water body.
8. Any proposal to introduce fish species in an area where they do not presently exist.

1. Construction of new abattoirs or slaughtering houses with a capacity of greater than 100 animals/day and expansions to existing abattoirs or slaughtering houses to a capacity of greater than 100 animals/day
2. Construction of new canning and bottling operation with work space of greater than 5000 square metres or expansion to an existing canning or bottling operation to a work space of greater than 5000 square metres
3. Construction of new breweries and distilleries with a production capacity of greater than 25,000 litres per day, or expansions to existing breweries or distilleries to a production capacity of greater than 25,000 litres per day
4. Construction of new sugar production operations or expansions to existing sugar production operations by greater than 10%
5. Construction, or expansions to, tea or coffee processing industries. 

1. Construction, or expansion of, ground water utilisation projects where the utilisation will be greater than 15 1/s or where the well is 60 m or deeper
2. Construction of new water pipelines or canals longer than 1 km, or expansion to existing water pipelines or canals by longer than 1 km, where the cross-sectional area is greater than 20 square metres and the volume of water to be carried will be greater than 50 cubic metres per second.
3. Water pumping stations adjacent to lakes, rivers, and reservoirs which withdraw more than 2 cubic metres per second
4. Drinking water supply schemes to serve a population of greater than 10,000 people, or expansions of existing schemes to serve such a population, or water reticulation networks with more than 10 kilometres of pipeline 
5. area of greater than 100 ha, or expansions of existing reservoirs by greater than 500,0001 or greater than 100 ha.
6. Construction or expansion of dams with a height of 4.5 m or higher.

1. Construction of new sanitary sewerage works, or expansion of existing sanitary sewerage works, to serve a population of more than 5,000 people.
2. Construction of new storm sewerage works, or expansion of existing storm sewerage works, to drain an area of greater than 10 ha.
3. Any new sewerage outfall to a receiving water body or location of sewerage systems or septic tanks within 1 km of a water body.
4. Construction or expansion of septic tanks servicing more than 100 people or 20 homes or which receive more than 100 cubic metres per day of waste water. 
5. Construction of new highways and feeder roads or expansion of existing highways and feeder roads.
6. Construction of new airport and airstrips or expansion of existing and airstrips and their ancillary facilities.
7. Construction of hospitals with a bed capacity of greater than 200 beds, or expansions of existing hospitals to a capacity of greater than 200 beds.
8. Construction of new, or expansions to existing, railway lines
9. Construction of new, or expansions to existing port or harbour facilities. 
10. Establishment or expansion of industrial estates.

1. Establishment, or expansion, of any of the following hazardous waste management facilities:
1.  incineration plant
2. off-site recovery plant
3. off-site waste disposal facility
4. off-site storage facility
5. landfill site
2. Establishment, or expansion, of any of the following municipal solid waste management facilities serving a population of greater than 1,000 people:
1. andfill site
2. incineration facility 
3. composting facility 
4. recovery/recycling facility 
5. waste depots/transfer stations
3. Establishment, or expansion of, on-site waste treatment facilities.

1. Construction or expansion of electrical generating facilities designed to operate at greater than 4 MW or, in the case of hydro-electric generating facilities, where the total head is greater than 20 m or where there is a firm flow of 100 cubic metres per second.
2. Construction of electrical transmission facilities operating at a voltage of 132 kv or greater
3. Construction or expansion of oil and gas pipelines longer than 1 km.
4. Construction or expansion of storage facilities (excluding services station) for oil, gas, petrol or diesel located within 3 kilometres of commercial, industrial or residential areas and with a storage capacity of 500,000 litres or more
5. All activities associated with nuclear power development

1. Construction of, and expansions to, industries involving the use, manufacturing, handling storage; transport or disposal of hazardous or toxic chemicals as regulated under the hazardous chemicals regulation under the Environment Management Act.
2. Construction of, or expansion to, any of the following industrial operations:
1. tanneries
2. pulp and paper mills
3. lime plants
4. cement plants
5. all types of smelters
6. soap and detergent plants
7. fertiliser manufacturing operations
3. Construction of textile manufacturing operations (including carpet-making) which consume greater than 5,000 square metres of surface area, or expansions to existing textile manufacturing operations to a capacity of more than 5000 square metres 

1. All mining of minerals, expansions to mines, mining exploration activity, minerals prospecting activity, quarries, gravel pits and removal of sand or gravel from shore lines, except for those activities which have received a project specific exemption under subsection 26 (3) of the Environment Management Act signed by the Director for Environmental Affairs and cosigned by the Director of Mines
2. Explosives manufacturing

Extraction of top soil or the expansion of such an operation, when the operation or the expansion is greater than 0.5 ha or when the depth of a pit to burn bricks from the top soil is deeper than 3 m

1. Establishment or expansion of logging operations covering an area of greater than 50ha.
2. Establishment of, or expansions to existing, logging operations on hill sides with a slope of greater than 10% covering an area of greater than 10 ha or any conversion of forested land with a slope of greater than 10% to another land use on greater than 10 ha.
3. Establishment of logging or conversion of forested land to another land use within the catchment area of reservoirs
4. Establishment of forest plantations of greater than 50 ha.

1.  Establishment of, or expansion to an existing; housing development of a Si7^ greater than 5 ha or where more than 500 people are intended to be housed. 
2. Resettlement programmes for 500 or more people or the creation of refugee camps intended to shelter 500 or more people.
3. Filling in water bodies for the purposes of land development where the surface area of gross fill deposit is greater than 50 ha
4. Land reclamation projects greater than 100 ha.

1. Construction of breakwaters, seawalls, jetties, dikes and groynes of greater than 2 metres in height or 1 km in length to remedy shoreline erosion or flooding 
2. Construction of dams or weirs with a height of greater than 2 metres, or which divert more than 20 cubic metres per second, or any bypass channels or channel realignments to remedy riverine erosion or flooding . 
3. Shoreline stabilisation projects where the shoreline involved is greater than 50m. 

1. Construction of resort facilities and hotels with a capacity of more than 50 people, or expansions to existing facilities by a factor of greater than 50 people. 
2. Construction of safari lodges and operations with a capacity of more than 50 people, or expansions to existing facilities by factor of greater than 50 people. 
3. Construction of marine facilities with more than 10 boat slips, or expansion of existing marine facilities by more than 10 boat slips. 
4. Development of tourism master plans which have several projects associated with them. 

1. areas of unique historical, cultural, scientific or geographical significance or which have received some kind of world heritage designation . 
2. national parks, game reserves and protected areas
3. wetlands
4. water bodies
5. flood zones
6. major sources of drinking water, including communal wells
7. cemeteries or ancestral shrines
8. residential, school and hospital areas, as designed in local planning documents.

1. Degazettement of Forestry Reserves
2. Changes to Zoning Plans. 
3. Proposed introduction of exotic species