The first is to separate technical review from administrative examination and approval. Strictly regulate administrative acts and exercise the power of examination and approval in accordance with the responsibilities and authorities of departments. The review of the EIA report shall be led by the Municipal Environmental Engineering Evaluation Center, and the administrative examination and approval department shall not take the lead in technical review. The subject of responsibility is more clear, and the evaluation department is responsible for the evaluation conclusions, which has changed the situation of being both an "athlete" and a "referee" in the past.
The second is to establish an EIA expert database. In order to ensure the quality of technical review of environmental impact assessment, and effectively reflect the fairness, openness, rigor and scientificity of environmental impact assessment, Guangyuan Environmental Protection Bureau collected nearly 84 professional and technical personnel with the title of engineer or above from provincial, municipal and county scientific research institutions, universities and large and medium-sized enterprises and institutions in 2009, and were hired as environmental impact assessment expert database personnel after evaluation by the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. Among these experts, there are 70 senior professional titles 1 1 person, 70 deputy senior professional titles and 3 intermediate professional titles, covering 34 majors, which basically meet the needs of EIA review. The establishment of this mechanism has effectively changed the pattern that the previous EIA technical review was called expert review, but it was actually environmental protection administrative personnel review, so that the EIA technical review can have more reliable and rigorous scientific and technological support.
Third, strictly abide by the EIA technical review procedures. After the establishment of the EIA expert database, Guangyuan Environmental Protection Bureau immediately studied and issued such normative documents as Notice on Further Standardizing Environmental Protection Technology Review, Notice on Implementing Measures for Stability Risk Assessment of Construction Projects, Opinions on Standardizing the Examination and Approval Procedures of Construction Projects, Improving Work Efficiency and Providing Quality Services for Economic Construction, and Notice on Strengthening the Supervision and Management of Environmental Assessment of Urban Construction Projects. The establishment of these systems has clarified the procedures of EIA technical review, the selection methods of EIA experts and the responsibilities of EIA review. On the basis of giving full play to the leading role of experts and widely listening to opinions, the environmental protection departments attending the meeting conscientiously do a good job in guiding environmental-related laws, regulations and industrial policies to ensure that the reviewed construction projects benefit the society and promote economic development.
The fourth is to strictly implement the record elimination system of evaluation units. In order to effectively curb the vicious competition of environmental assessment agencies and standardize the environmental assessment market, Guangyuan Environmental Protection Bureau issued an announcement in the media according to relevant policies and regulations, and implemented a strict filing system for the units engaged in environmental assessment in Guangyuan City. The information of environmental assessment units that meet their professional qualifications was published in Guangyuan Environmental Protection Network and the government affairs service hall of the municipal government, and enterprises were free to directly choose evaluation units. At the same time, the evaluation experts are required to strictly grade the EIA documents of each project, and the evaluation center conducts a review summary every six months. The Municipal Bureau will report the EIA units with poor quality in time and terminate their EIA work in Guangyuan.
Fifth, strengthen the supervision and management of environmental impact assessment. In order to strengthen the construction of environmental protection team and strictly regulate and correctly exercise environmental protection rights, Guangyuan Environmental Protection Bureau has taken three measures to supervise and manage the field of environmental assessment: the expert database of environmental assessment is controlled by the personnel supervision department of the bureau, and the owner selects relevant experts from the expert database anonymously; The discipline inspection and supervision department directly participates in the evaluation meeting. Before the project evaluation meeting, the meeting host issues an EIA clean government announcement to the owners, evaluation units and experts; Experts' fees for environmental impact assessment shall be charged according to relevant regulations, and environmental protection workers attending the meeting shall not charge any fees from the owners or evaluation units, so as to prevent the occurrence of dishonest behavior from the source.
(Author: Zhang Houmei, Environmental Protection Bureau of Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province)