Section 19, The Environment Protection Act, 2000

(1) The Director shall, after receiving an environment impact assessment, circulate it to professional bodies or associations, Government Ministries and non-governmental organisations for their comments. (2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), the Director shall make an environmental impact assessment open for public inspection and comments and he shall give notice to that effect in two consecutive issues of the *Gazette* and two issues in a newspaper; except that in the case of a newspaper there shall be an interval of at least seven days between the first and second publications. No. 2 Environment Protection Act 2000 11 (3) Comments made under this section shall be submitted within fourteen days of the last publication in the *Gazette* or newspaper as the case may be, to the Director. [Margin: Director to submit comments etc. to Board.]