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Environmental Impact Preventive Report

A preventive report of EI (EIPR); is a document which is given to know the General details of a work or other activity, in order to determine whether it is in the cases indicated by article 31 of the Act or requires to be evaluated through a demonstration of environmental impact.

Specifically for all activities that are listed in article 5 of the RMEIA, will require only an EIPR when:

• There are NOMs or other provisions that regulate emissions, discharges, exploitation of natural resources and, in general, all relevant environmental impact that the work or activities can produce.

• The work or activities are expressly provided for by a plan or part-time program of urban development or ecological zoning with prior authorization in the field of EI on the set of work or activities in it.

• In the case of facilities located in industrial parks previously approved by SEMARNAT in terms of the Act and the RMEIA.

The minimum information which an EIPR must contain is as follows:

I. Identification data, which must include:
a) The name and location of the project.
b) General data of the prerogative.
c) General data of the person responsible for the preparation of the report.

II. Reference, as appropriate:
a) To the Mexican official standards or other provisions that regulate emissions, discharges or the exploitation of natural resources, applicable to the work or activity.
b) To the partial plan of urban development or ecological zoning in which work or activity is included.
c) To the authorization of the Secretariat of the industrial park, where the work is located.

III. The following information:
a) A general description of the work or planned activity.
b) The identification of substances or products to be used and that can impact the environment, as well as their physical and chemical characteristics.
c) The identification and estimation of emissions, discharges and waste whose generation is envisaged, as well as control measures seeking to carry out.
d) A description of the environment and, where appropriate, the identification of other sources of pollutants in the area of influence of the project.
e) The identification of significant or relevant environmental impacts and the identification of actions and measures for its prevention and mitigation.
f) The levels of location of the area that is intended to carry out the project.
g) Where appropriate, the additional conditions proposed in the terms of article 31.

Article 33 of the RMEIA, establishes SEMARNAT will analyze the PR and within not more than 20 days will inform: :

I. Which is in the cases provided for in article 28 of this regulation and, therefore, you can perform the work or activity under the proposed terms.

II. That requires the submission of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), in one of it modalities.

III. In the case of preventive reports in which the impacts of the work or activities referred to, are fully regulated by the Mexican official norms, expiry of the period referred into this article the SEMARNAT made the corresponding notification, it is understood that such work or activities may be carried out in the form in which they were planned and according to the same standards.