National Environmental Management Act, 1998 (Act No. 107 of 1998)RegulationsEnvironmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014Chapter 4 : Application for Environmental AuthorisationPart 3: S&EIR21. Submission of scoping report to competent authority |
| (1) | If S&EIR must be applied to an application, the applicant must, within 44 days of receipt of the application by the competent authority, submit to the competent authority a scoping report which has been subjected to a public participation process of at least 30 days and which reflects the incorporation of comments received, including any comments of the competent authority. |
| (2) | Subject to regulation 46, and if the findings of the scoping report is still valid and the environmental context has not changed, the submission of a scoping report as contemplated in subregulation (1) need not be complied with— |
| (a) | in cases where a scoping report was accepted as part of a previous application for environmental authorisation and the application has lapsed or was refused because of insufficient information; |
[Regulation 21(2)(a) substituted by Notice No. 326 of 2017]
| (b) | on condition that regulation 16 is complied with and that such application is accompanied by proof that registered interested and affected parties, who participated in the public participation process conducted as part of the previous application, have been notified of this intended resubmission of the application prior to submission of such application; |
| (c) | if the application contemplated in paragraph (b) is submitted by the same applicant for the same development, as applied for and lapsed or refused as contemplated in paragraph (a); and |
[Regulation 21(2)(c) substituted by Notice No. 326 of 2017]
| (d) | if an environmental impact assessment report and the documents contemplated in regulation 23(1)(a), which must have been subjected to a public participation process of at least 30 days and which reflects the incorporation of comments received, including any comments of the competent authority, is submitted within a period of two years from the date of the acceptance of the scoping report contemplated in paragraph (a). |
[Regulation 20(2)(d) substituted by section 8 of Notice No. 517, GG44701, dated 11 June of 2021]
| (3) | A scoping report must contain all information set out in Appendix 2 to these Regulations or comply with a protocol or minimum information requirements relevant to the application as identified and gazetted by the Minister in a government notice. |
[Regulation 19(3) substituted by Notice No. 326 of 2017]