The NDA consulted statutory consultees, until 11 September 2008, on the scope of the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) that it plans to undertake to support the review of NDA's Strategy and the development of a UK wide Strategy for the Management of Solid Low Level Waste (LLW) from Nuclear Sites.
Main Report
Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Report July 2008 (1Mb)
Non-Technical Summary Report
Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Report - Non-Technical Summary July 2008 (3Mb)
Appendices including the provisional baseline for sites
England - Part 1 - Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Report (8Mb)
England - Part 2 - Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Report (4.5Mb)
Scotland - Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Report (3Mb)
Wales - Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Report (3Mb)
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In parallel to the consultation on our SEA scoping, the NDA is consulting separately on:
This consultation is in response to the White Paper on Managing Radioactive Waste Safely: A Framework for Implementing Geological Disposal published in June 2008 by Defra, BERR and the devolved administrations for Wales and Northern Ireland. This consultation addresses Sustainability Appraisal and Environmental Assessment throughout the implementation of geological disposal and is envisaged as a precursor to this type of scoping consultation.
Consultation on Strategic Environmental Assessment Scoping Report
The consultation on the Scoping Report was primarily focussed on allowing nature conservation, heritage and environmental regulators to ensure their areas of interest are appropriately covered.
SEA is a statutory requirement following the adoption of the European Union’s Directive 2001/42/EC on the assessment of the effect of certain plans and programmes on the environment. This was transposed into UK legislation through The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004. The aim of the SEA is to identify the associated environmental effects of implementing a plan or programme and how to avoid, manage or mitigate significant adverse effects, and enhance positive effects. The assessment of the NDA Strategy and LLW Strategy has been expanded to provide consideration to all relevant potential environmental, social and economic effects and will result in the publication of an individual Environmental and Sustainability Report for each Strategy.
The Scoping Report is the key output of the SEA process. It sets out the proposed the scope of issues to be considered in the assessment. The purpose of the report is to present information on the proposed scope of the assessment, including:
- A summary of the proposed Strategy
- A review of the relevant plans and programmes to which the Strategy could contribute
- A summary of key baseline information and identification of key issues; and
- An outline of the proposed approach to completing the SEA.