Strategic Environmental Assessment

Please forward any feedback you may have on the Draft Checklist by Friday February 29th 2008 to Tadhg O’Mahony, SEA Section, Office of Environmental Assessment, Environmental Protection Agency, Regional Inspectorate, Inniscarra, County Cork. 

Comments can also be forwarded electronically to t.omahony@epa.ie quoting "SEA Process Checklist" in the Subject line.

It should be noted that the Checklist is a Process Checklist and the intention is that the Checklist is applied during the SEA Process. This should prompt any activities, required to be undertaken or information, required to be included, respectively, in the SEA Process and associated outputs. The "Checklist" should not be used solely as an end of process Checklist, though it can also serve this purpose.

Next Stages

On receipt of feedback, the various comments will be collated and circulated within the SEA Work Group for consideration. The "Checklist" will then be updated and placed on the EPA ‘s Website as a Consultation Document. It is intended that the Checklist will be piloted formally on a number of key SEA ‘s being undertaken during 2008. Following review of the application of the Checklist" by Plan /Programme makers, SEA Practitioners, statutory and non statutory bodies and other interested parties the Checklist will be updated to reflect any feedback received.

Once finalised, the Checklist will be published on the EPA ‘s website and is also likely to made available as a paper copy. It should be noted that the Checklist will be an active document and will be updated on a regular basis.