Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Ecology Vladimir Grachev
Photo: Grigoriy Sobchenko
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Ecological Checks Back in City Planning
The Federal Ecological, Technical and Atomic Supervision Service (Rostekhnadzor) has submitted proposed amendments to the second reading of changes to the City Planning Code and the law “On Ecological Evaluation” yesterday. The change will make state ecological evaluation a requirement for all objects built in ecologically protected territories. Rostekhnadzor will add the phrase “and also any design documentation for especially dangerous or technically complex objects” to the list of objects subject to state ecological evaluation.
Under the City Planning Code, the objects referred to in the Rostekhnadzor amendment will include atomic energy facilities, hydrotechnological facilities, ports, and others. In addition, according to a Rostekhnadzor source, an order is being drafted “On the Compilation and Content Requirements in Sections of Documents Provided for State Evaluation,” which will include an ecological impact statement for all construction and reconstruction of objects, just as it was before the City Planning Code came into force.
The City Planning Code, which came into force on January 1 of this year, combined several types of evaluation into one to simplify approval of construction projects. Only federal target programs and territorial development plans are currently subject to separate ecological evaluation.
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