Environmental Impact Assessment Enforcement Rules Article 38

Those developers that modify the contents of an original application and for whom one of the following circumstances applies shall reconduct an environmental impact assessment for the parts of the application that are to be modified.I. Those circumstances in which planned production capacity or scale is expanded, or a roadway is extended, by ten percent or moreII. Those circumstances in which the modification of land use involves an existing protection area, greenbelt buffer zone, or other area for which human development is prone to cause severe change to or destruction of the environment.III. Those circumstances in which the handling capacity or efficiency of an environmental facility is reducedIV. Those circumstances in which there is concern of an increase of impact on the living, natural or social environment or protected objects within the scope of impact due to the modification of the planV. Those circumstances in which modifications are adverse to the maintenance of environmental qualityVI. Other circumstances determined by the competent authorityThose circumstances in Subparagraph 1 or Subparagraph 2 in the foregoing paragraph that receive the authorization of the competent authority and industry competent authority shall not be subject to this restriction.For those circumstances in which there is an expansion of scope or expansion of construction after a development activity is completed and permission to operate is obtained, an environmental impact assessment shall still be conducted pursuant to Article 5 of this Act.