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1.6 INDEPENDENCE
Aurecon nor any of its sub-consultants are subsidiaries of Mainstream, nor is Mainstream a
subsidiary to Aurecon. Furthermore, all these parties do not have any interests in secondary or
downstream developments that may arise out of the authorisation of the proposed project.
1.7 DETAILS AND EXPERTISE OF THE EAPS WHO COMPILED THE
EIA REPORT
The Project Director, Mr Andries van der Merwe, Project Manager, Miss Louise Corbett, and the
Project Staff, Mrs Cornelia Steyn and Mr Simon Clark, are appropriately qualified and registered
with the relevant professional bodies. Mr van der Merwe is a certified Environmental
Assessment Practitioner of South Africa (EAPSA), and Miss Corbett is registered as a
Professional Natural Scientist with the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions
(SACNSP). Aurecon is bound by the codes of conduct for EAPSA and SACNASP. The CV
summaries of the key Aurecon staff are included in the Plan of Study for EIA contained in the
FSR.
1.8 STRUCTURE OF THE EIA REPORT
As outlined above, the EIA process undertaken to date has culminated in the production of a
comprehensive EIR, which provided detailed information relevant to the project. However, for
the sake of being succinct, information contained within the Scoping Report is not repeated
within this EIA Report unless it has direct bearing on the issues under discussion. Accordingly,
to ensure a holistic understanding of the project, the nature of the activities and the
substance of the EIA process, it is critical that this EIA Report is read in conjunction with
the FSR (Aurecon, 2012).
Table 1.2 presents the structure of the EIA report as well as the applicable sections that
address the required information in terms of NEMA. Specifically, Section 31 of the EIA
Regulations requires that the following information is provided:
Table 1.2: NEMA requirements for EIA Reports and location in this EIR
SECTION 31 OF REGULATION 543 CHAPTER
OR
SECTION
Section 31(2) of Regulation 543
(a) Details of:
(i) the EAP who prepared the report; and
(ii) the expertise of the EAP to carry out an EIA;
1.6, page 74
(summaries
of EAP CVs
provided in
Chapter 6 of
FSR)
(b) a detailed description of the proposed activity; Chapter 3
(c) a description of the property on which the activity is to be undertaken
and the location of the activity on the property, or if it is:
(i) a linear activity, a description of the route of the activity; or
(ii) an ocean-based activity, the coordinates where the activity is to be
Chapter 4
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or adaptation, in whole or in part, may be made.
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