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Page 1: USAID Environmental Guidelines Purpose and Overview YMEP Environmental Training Overview

USAID Environmental GuidelinesPurpose and Overview

YMEP Environmental Training Overview

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Fate and Transport of Pollution in the Environment

Sources

Pathway

Target

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Exposure Scenario

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Protecting Against Environmental Risk

Risk = Hazard x Exposure

hazard: A circumstance/event with potential to cause harm. A hazard itself presents no risk until something is exposed to it.

exposure: A particular amount of time something comes in contact with a hazard or the number of times something comes in contact with a hazard.

Hazard x Exposure = No Risk Hazard x Exposure = No Risk

There really is no such thing as zero risk

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22 CFR 216 Regulations

22 CFR 216 codifies USAID’s procedures for assessing assessment of our programsApplies to every program, project, activity, and amendment supported with USAID funds

– Every USAID Officer Who Has a Role in USAID Funded Projects

– Every Partner Who Seeks USAID FundsCompliance with the procedures is mandatory

ADS Chapter 204 Environmental Procedures

This chapter provides policy directives and required procedures on how to apply Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations,

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Reg 216: The big picture

system, Reg. 216 features a tiered review system to focus review effort where it is needed.

Increasing risk/impact

Most activities are cleared with:

Categorical Exclusion

Initial environmental examination

Activities specified by the regulation as having minimal environmental impact

A much shorter, simpler version of a full EIA study

Full EIA Requires a professional team, 2+ person months

Reg 216 specifies that an IEE must reach 1 of 2 decisions:

Positive determination, (significant impacts likely, do full EIA)

Negative determination, (no significant impacts, proceed with activity)

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“Exempt” activities often have significant adverse impacts.

Good practice requires mitigating these impacts, where possible.

1.International disaster assistance2.Other emergency situations 3.Circumstances with “exceptional

foreign policy sensitivities”

Under Reg 216, EXEMPTIONS are ONLY. . .

Exemptions require a formal determination by the Administrator or Assistant Administrator that includes consultation with CEQ regarding the environmental consequences of the proposed program, project or activity.

Exemptions from 216 Requirements

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USAID Screening Categories:Categorical Exclusions

1. Education, tech. assistance, training2. Documents or information transfers3. Analyses, studies, academic or research

workshops and meetings 4. Support to intermediate credit

institutions where USAID does not review loans

5. Nutrition, health, family planning activities except where infectious medical waste is generated

A specific set of activities believed to have minimal environmental impacts have been identified for possible exclusion from the 216 Illustrative examples include:

No categorical exclusions are

possible when an activity involves

pesticides

And certain other situations where USAID does not have direct knowledge or control

Categorical exclusions exist AT THE DISCRETION of

the BEO

New Environmental Executive guidelines

on Categorical Standards emphasize need for case by case

review of CATEX applicabiility

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New Guidance Requires Affirmative Evaluation of CATEX Applicability

Institutional Capacity Building Case Study

Project Includes:• Senior LT Advisor to Ministry of Mining on Best Practices• Assist in c concession negotiations• Supervise cadastre and legal reform work• STTA on concessions and legal reform• Training Ministry Staff

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Basic Reg. 216 compliance documents

Initial Environmental Examination

1. Goals and purpose of project; list of activities

2. Baseline information3. Evaluation of potential

environmental impacts4. Recommended findings,

mitigation & monitoring

Request for Categorical Exclusion

1.Goals and purpose of project: list activities

2.Justification for a Categorical Exclusion (must cite the appropriate section of Reg. 216.)

The IEE is USAID’s “preliminary assessment”

The RCE is a simple

document used when ALL

activities are “low risk”

A “facesheet” accompanies both the IEE & the CatEx

Request

1 2

3

No activities may be

implemented without

APPROVED Reg. 216

environmental documentation

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Environmental Screening

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Recommendation Reg. 216 terminology

Implications(if IEE is approved)

No significant adverse environmental impacts

NEGATIVEDETERMINATION

Activity passes environmental review

With specified mitigation and monitoring, no significant environmental impacts

NEGATIVEDETERMINATIONWITH CONDITIONS

The activity passes environmental review on the condition that the specified mitigation and monitoring is implemented

Significant adverse environmental impacts are possible

POSITIVEDETERMINATION

Do full EAor redesign activity

Not enough information to evaluate impacts DEFERRAL

You cannot implement the activity until the IEE is finalized

• For each activity addressed, the IEE makes one of 4 recommendations regarding its possible impacts:

Recommended Determinations in the IEE

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Umbrella IEEs for “Umbrella” Projects

G.1 Umbrella projects and USAID’s Environmental Procedures

The basic procedures described in Chapters 1–4 of this manual assume that proposed activities are sufficiently well-defined that the screening process can be undertaken and, if necessary, an IEE can be prepared.

However, proposals often include activities that are not fully defined at the time the proposal is submitted. “Umbrella projects” are a common example of this situation. In an umbrella project, a number of small-scale activities are funded through subgrants under a larger project.

Umbrella projects are commonly used to implement community-driven development schemes. They provide a mechanism to fund community proposals for small-scale activities. They may also be used to fund micro and small enterprise subprojects.Typically, a USAID partner organization receives overall funding for the umbrella project. The partner then functions as a subsidiary grantmaker, using a portion of the overall funding to award small-scale grants.

Under certain circumstances, however, USAID itself assumes the role of managing the subproject proposal and grant-making process.

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CLP Program is an Example of an Umbrella IEE

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Environmental Assessments/ Environmental Impact Statements

PERSUAPS

Programmatic Environmental Assessments

Beyond the IEE

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EA Requirements

The full EA study includes:

A formal scoping process precedes the study to ID issues to be addressed

Analysis of environmental impacts is much more detailed

Alternatives* must be formally defined. The impacts of each alternative must be identified & evaluated, and the results compared.

Public participation is usually required.

A professional EIA team is usually required.

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*includes the project as proposed, the no-action alternative at least one other real alternative

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Programmatic Approaches

An Office of USAID may undertake an environmental assessment within a sector (agriculture, road construction, etc.) or a larger program to help define and mitigate potential environmental concerns in the design of a program or strategy. Such an overall assessment is known as a Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and can serve as a general assessment of a sector or provide the basis for future environmental reviews, at either project or sub-project level.

Section 216.6(d) of Reg. 216:(d) PROGRAM ASSESSMENT: Program Assessments may be appropriate in order to:-- assess the environmental effects of a number of individual actions and their cumulative environmental impact in a given country or geographic area, or-- the environmental impacts that are generic or common to a class of agency actions, or-- other activities which are not country-specific.

Programmatic Environmental Assessment

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Pesticide Evaluation Report & Safer Use Action Plan (PERSUAP)

• Originated in the Africa Bureau, but increasingly being adopted elsewhere, the PERSUAP constitutes the pesticide analysis of the IEE*, or takes its place.– The PERSUAP can be self-standing, be attached to the

IEE, or submitted later to resolve a pesticide use deferral – PERSUAP has two major parts:

Pesticide Evaluation

Report&1

Safer Use Action Plan

2

Response to thePesticide Procedures requirements

Identifies actions and actors for mitigation & monitoring,

including compliance with host country & private** procedures

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Monitoring Environmental Compliance

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USAID Must Monitor IP Performance with Environmental Requirements

Implementing Partners must provide USAID with verifiable monitoring information about environmental compliance.

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Definition: Environmental monitoring is BOTH. . .

1.Systematic measurement of key environmental indicators over time

(is the mitigation measure sufficient, effective?)

2. Systematic verification of mitigation

(are the prescribed measures being implemented?)

Environmental monitoring is a necessary complement to mitigation.

It should be a normal part of monitoring project results.

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Environmental Monitoring and Mitigation Plans

Mitigation and monitoring is set out in Environmental Mitigation and Monitoring Plans (EMMPs)