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NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACT (107/1998): INTERIM ARRANGEMENTS WITH RESPECT TO MINIMUM INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS FOR SUBMISSION OF AN EA APPLICATION RELATED TO SHALE GAS

Posted 13 July 2016

The Minister of Environmental Affairs has given notice that any reference in regulation 86 of the Regulations for Petroleum Exploration and Production, 2015 published in GNR 466 on 3 June 2015, to minimum information requirements, must be read as a reference to Appendices 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, as amended, of the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2014, until such time that more specific minimum information requirements have been published in terms of the NEMA.