Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a planning tool used to identify, predict, and assess potential impacts (either negative or positive) that may arise from planned projects, and come up with ways with which to minimise negative impacts and enhance positive ones.
Prior to the enactment of the Environmental Management Act (Cap 20:27), the EIA process was governed by the 1997 EIA policy which made it voluntary for proponents or project owners to undertake Environmental Impact Assessment.
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