First Schedule, Environment Protection Agency Act, 2008

(Section 24) PROJECTS REQUIRING ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT LICENCES A licence is required for the projects whose activities involve or include the following:– (a) substantial changes in renewable resource use (e.g. conversion of land to agricultural production, forestry or to pasture land, rural development, timber production); (b) substantial changes in farming and fisheries practices (e.g. introduction of new crops, large scale mechanisation or use of chemicals in agriculture); (c) exploitation of hydraulic resources (e.g. dams, drainage and irrigation projects, water basin development, water supply); (d) infrastructure (e.g. roads, bridges, airports, harbours, transmission lines, pipelines, railways); (e) industrial activities (e.g. metallurgical plants, wood processing plants, chemical plants, power plants, cement plants, refinery and petro-chemical plants, agro-industries). (f) extractive industries (e.g. mining, quarrying, extraction of sand, gravel, salt, peat, oil and gas); (g) waste management and disposal (e.g. sewerage systems and treatment plants, landfills, treatment plants for household and hazardous waste); (h) housing construction and development schemes; (i) establishment of places of entertainment, motor repair garages and welding shops; (j) importation of second hand vehicles.