8 - Follow-up and Monitoring Flashcards
What is a Follow-up Program?
It involves determining whether a project has had or is continuing to have environmental effects.
A follow-up program verifies the ____________ of the effects assessment and evaluates the effectiveness effects.
accuracy
What are the two types of Monitoring?
- Compliance Monitoring
- Monitoring for Management
Define Monitoring:
Identifying the nature and cause of change and tracking in VCs or indicators over time.
Define Auditing:
Assessment of observations against predetermined objectives or criteria (generally focused on comparing monitoring results against specific standards or expectations)
Provide an example of Auditing:
Example: Post-evaluation - collection an appraisal of information about a project’s impacts and making decisions for remedial actions and communication the results.
What are the five types of Audits?
- Draft EIS Audit
- Decision-based Audit
- Project Impacts Audit
- Performance Audit
- Predictive Technique Audit
_________________Audit: Review of EIS relative to its terms of reference.
Draft EIS
_________________ Audit: Review of the role and effectiveness of the EIS based on whether the project is allowed to proceed and on what conditions.
Decision-based
_________________ Audit: Review of whether the predicted impacts were the actual impacts.
Project Impacts
______________ Audit: examination of the proponent’s environmental management performance and ability to respond to environmental incidents.
Performance
____________________ Audit: Comparison between actual and predicts effects of the project.
Predictive Technique
Define Compliance Monitoring:
Monitoring a project’s compliance with regulations, mitigation commitments, agreements or legislation.
What is the main purpose of Compliance Monitoring to prove?
Did the proponent do what it said it would do in the EIS?
What are the three types of Compliance Monitoring?
- Agreement Monitoring
- Implementation Monitoring
- Regulatory Permit Monitoring
What does Implementation Monitoring do?
Checking to ensure operation procedures are being followed.
Provide an example of implementation monitoring?
Example: Is the proponent following an environmental management plan standards?
What does Regulatory Permit Monitoring do?
Tracking of conditions relative to a permit or regulation.
Provide an example of Regulatory Permit Monitoring:
Water quality monitoring relative to CCME standards.
What does Agreement Monitoring do?
Tracking commitments made in an agreements framework.
Provide an example of Agreement Monitoring:
Is the proponent achieving local employment targets?
The Canadian Nuclear Laboratory (CNL) is an example of what kind of monitoring?
Compliance Monitoring
What were some of the compliance requirements discussed in the CNL Compliance Monitoring?
- All licensed activities continued to be carried out safely and securely
- No worker at the facility received a dose in excess of any of the respective radiation dose limits for radiation workers, as defined in the Radiation Protection (RP) regulations;
- No member of the public received a radiation dose that exceeded the regulatory limit;
What are the three types of Monitoring for Management?
- Ambient Environmental Quality Monitoring
- Effectiveness Monitoring
- Cumulative Effects Monitoring