The Environmental Impact Assessment Practice Guide Assessment of Proposals in Western Australia under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Act 198 (EIA Practice Guide) outlines the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) practice of EIA (environmental impact assessment) including assessment processes and EPA expectations. The EIA Practice Guide forms part of the EPA suite of documents to support EIA (highlighted in the figure below).

The EIA Practice Guide has been prepared to be consistent with the EPA’s functions under s. 16 and 122 of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 (EP Act) and sets out EPA EIA assessment process, grouped according to the following key stages:

• Stage 1 Referral of a proposal to the EPA (s. 38)
• Stage 2 EPA to decide whether or not to assess a referred proposal (s. 38A to s. 39B)
• Stage 3 Assessment of proposals (s. 40 to s. 43A)
• Stage 4 EPA report on the assessment of a proposal (s. 44)
• Stage 5 Deciding if proposal may be implemented and implementation of proposals (s. 45 to s. 48).

The Instructions, templates and forms can be found here.