Abstract
The EIA Law was revised based on the re-examination of a decade implementing. These improvements of the EIA practice of the national government potentially improve practices of local governments, after EIA ordinances affected by. However, although all local governments have set up their own EIA review committee, the Law amendment didn't deal the committee system because of lack of such committee system in national practices. On this background, we conducted a questionnaire survey of local governments on the practices of the EIA review committee in 2006 and 2012. And we compared the results of our survey and clarified the actual condition of the review committee and challenges for improvements in these years. We also point out the potential for improvements from results of an additional questionnaire survey to some committee member.
