5.0      ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS 

Environmental impact assessment are the logical first step in this process because it represent the opportunity for man to consider, in his decision making, the effects of actions that are not accounted for in the normal market exchange of goods and services. Adherence to pure economic exchange theory and practice for decision making has possible adverse consequences for the proposed site at which the project is going to be implementing.

The environmental impact assessment may be defined as the documentation of environmental analysis, which includes identifications, interpretations, prediction and  mitigation  cost  by  proposed  action  on  project.  A properly prepared assessment should enable the planner to conclude whether the proposal should or should not be regarded as major action, or whether the environmental impact is or is not significant and if the action could not be environmentally controversial. Whenever it is concluded as significant environmental impact will result from a proposed action, or it may become environmental controversial, when others learn of the action a draft EIS must be prepared.

The process of environmental impact analysis serves to meet the primary goal of Parliament in enacting Environmental Policy Act 1986 to establish national policy in favour of protecting and restoring the environmental.

The primary purpose for preparing environmental impact assessment is to disclose the environmental consequences of a proposed action, there by alerting the agency, decision maker and the pubtfc to the environmental risk involved an important and intended consequences of this disclosure is to build in to the agency's decision making process, a continuous conscipusness of environmental consideration.        

However the spirit of the law is founded on the premises, that to utilize resources in an environmentally compatible way and to protect and enhance the environment. It is necessary to know how activities of the proposed project will affect the environment and to consider these effects early enough so that
changes in plan can be made if the potential impacts warrant them.

Environmental impact assessment provide a vehicle for recording impacts of activities so that knowledge of what adverse changes may occur can be collected and maintained. The purpose of inventory is to ensure discloser of the impacts on the proposed projects so that concern institutions & indivisiuals will be aware of possible repercussions of the subject activities. Another valuable use for the