논문

The Environmental Impact Assessment Act in South-Korea which was revised in december 1996 allows the possibility to implement the communal environmental impact assessment.
The communal environmental impact assessment has in general following characteristics; the means for voluntary impact assessment, for local government's self-control, for local government's decision-making and for environmental assessment analysis/ diagnosis.
Based on these features, local administrative activities as many as possible should be classified into the assessment objects. Particularly, decision-making of urban planning facilities should be included in the assessment objects. The problems by including the assessments objects as many as possible should be settled through improving the assessment procedures and the assessment methods. Two step assessment procedure (that is, preliminary assessment and main assessment) and scoping procedure are helpful for this problem-solving. In addition, it is necessary to use communal environmental standards and communal environmental zones as assessment criteria/measures.