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Guidelines and Standards for <strong>Environmental</strong> Pollution Control in Nigeria<br />

(1991).<br />

• The <strong>Edo</strong> State Ministry of Environment and Public Utilities (MEPU) is<br />

responsible for waste management, flood and erosion control, forest<br />

depletion and degradation and general environmental and atmospheric<br />

pollution. The <strong>Edo</strong> State Waste Management Board is an agency under the<br />

direct supervision of the <strong>Edo</strong> State Ministry of Environment and Public<br />

Utilities with the responsibility for collection, transport, processing, recycling<br />

or disposal and monitoring of waste materials.<br />

Nigerian <strong>Environmental</strong> Legislation<br />

Nigerian environmental legislation relevant to this project includes the<br />

following.<br />

• <strong>Environmental</strong> <strong>Impact</strong> Assessment Act No 86 (1992);<br />

• Water Resources Act of 1993;<br />

• National <strong>Environmental</strong> Protection (Management of Solid and Hazardous<br />

Wastes Regulations), 1991;<br />

• National <strong>Environmental</strong> Protection (Effluent Limitation) Regulations, 1991;<br />

• Harmful Wastes (Special Criminal Provisions etc) Act No 42 (1988);<br />

• Federal <strong>Environmental</strong> Protection Agency Act (Act of 1998)<br />

• National Guidelines and Standards for <strong>Environmental</strong> Pollution Control in<br />

Nigeria (1991).<br />

The <strong>Environmental</strong> <strong>Impact</strong> Assessment Act (Act No. 86 of 1992) is the primary<br />

Act governing EIA in Nigeria.<br />

Nigerian Social Legislation<br />

Nigerian social legislation relevant to this project includes the following.<br />

• Factories Act (Act of 1990);<br />

• Labour Act (1990); and<br />

• Land Use Act (Act No. 6 of 1978).<br />

<strong>Edo</strong> State Development Plans<br />

The <strong>Edo</strong> State Development policy aims to create an enabling environment for<br />

private entrepreneurship to thrive and mirrors national political and trade<br />

liberalisation programmes. As a general rule, the <strong>Edo</strong> State Government does<br />

not take shareholding stakes of more than 20 percent in commercial enterprise.<br />

Instead, it helps to facilitate the establishment of industrial estates by allocating<br />

plots of land to private investors.<br />

AZURA EDO IPP<br />

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DRAFT EIA REPORT

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