Environmental Planning Section
Tasks and Specializations:
- Study development projects and infrastructure projects that have a limited environmental impact and a clear environmental impact on the environment and that require detailed environmental return studies, reports or forms, while setting the necessary environmental requirements and requirements when giving environmental approvals on those projects, in coordination with the technical departments concerned with the authority.
- To express the environmental opinion regarding the allocation of the sites of the various projects that are received by government and private agencies.
- To make field visits to the sites of the projects presented to him with a view to expressing opinions on them, or to follow-up and environmental monitoring of these projects and to ensure the application of environmental requirements.
- Provide opinion and comments about the projects that are distributed in the subcommittee for public facilities and services emanating from the Kuwait Municipality.
- Follow up the collection of fees for reviewing studies or reports on the environmental impact of the projects presented to the department.
- Study the plans mentioned in the structural plan for the State of Kuwait in coordination with the competent authorities.
- Review periodic environmental follow-up reports for projects in the implementation phase that come from different sectors of the country to clarify the extent of compliance with environmental standards and requirements.
- Coordination with the specialized technical departments in the authority to study the projects presented to the department .
- Follow-up of the environmental management plan for projects and periodic monitoring programs for projects that are prepared by the environmental consulting offices for the benefit of the project owners.
- Prepare the department's annual work plan and budget and present it to the director of the department.
- Preparing periodic reports of the activities and achievements of the department and submitting them to the director of the department.