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The Water Resources (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

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3.—(1) An environmental impact assessment shall be carried out in accordance with these Regulations in relation to a relevant project.

(2) A project is a relevant project if –

(a)it is a water management project for agriculture, including an irrigation project; and

(b)it would be likely to have significant effects on the environment by virtue, inter alia, of its nature, size or location.

(3) A project is not a relevant project if it –

(a)constitutes development to which the Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(1) apply;

(b)constitutes the carrying out of drainage works within the meaning of the Drainage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001(2); or

(c)involves the abstraction, diversion or impoundment of less than 200 cubic metres of water in any period of 24 hours.

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