PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
AND AUDIT PRIORITIZATION SCHEME
(PEMAPS)
- is a simplified, semi-quantitative
environmental risk assessment (ERA)
that can be applied by non-ERA experts
mainly for planning purposes
PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING
AND AUDIT PRIORITIZATION SCHEME
(PEMAPS)
1. Conceptual Basis
2. Scoring Guidelines
PEMAPS
Adapted from the risk-based
methodology called National/Regional
Industry Prioritization Scheme (NRIPS)
developed by EMB-USAIDs Industrial
Environmental Management Project
(IEMP)
Uses Environmental Risk Assessment
(ERA) technique
ELEMENTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL RISK
ASSESSMENT
1. SOURCE/STRESSORS
- environmental aspects of the facility or activity or
environment which can cause impacts on vulnerable
receptors, directly or indirectly if transported through
certain pathways.
2. PATHWAYS/FATE
- environmental media such as air for air pollutants and
water bodies for water-borne contaminants
3. RECEIVING MEDIA & RECEPTORS/VULNERABLE
VICTIMS
- human beings, flora, fauna, ecosystems or ecological
services and life support systems
PEMAPS Scoring Guidelines
Instructs the scorer on how to determine the
number of priority points to assign to a project or
undertaking or facility covered by the PEIS and
issued an ECC
Helps the scorer decide when an assumption
must be made when relevant information is
insufficient or lacking
Risk Criteria and Points for PEMAPS
Scoring
1. Project Considerations (20)
a. Industry Factors
b. Waste Generation & Management
c. Pollution Control Systems (PCS)
2. Pathways/Transport of a Contaminant
(6)
a. Prevailing wind direction
b. Rainfall
c. Terrain
d. Depth to groundwater
Risk Criteria and Points for
PEMAPS Scoring
3. Receiving Media/Receptors (38 pts.)
- Determines the relative potential risk of a facility
4. Environmental Performance (34 pts.)
- Compliance (RA 8749, RA 9275, RA 6969, PD
1586, RA 9003)
- Complaints
5. Regional Priorities & Thrusts (2 pts.)
TOTAL PEMAPS SCORE = 100 PTS.
RISK CRITERION
A
POINT
Subtotal
PROJECT CONSIDERATIONS
20
Size and Type
Waste Generation & Management
10
Pollution Control System
PATHWAYS
RECEIVING MEDIA/RECEPTORS Air
Total
Air
Surface Water Distance
Fresh Water
Salt Water
4.5
Ground Water
Land
10.5
RISK CRITERION
D
Subtotal
ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE
Compliance
POINT
Total
34
30
RA 8749
RA 9275
PD 1586
RA 6969
RA 9003
Complaints
REGIONAL PRIORITIES & THRUSTS
TOTAL
100
PROJECT CONSIDERATIONS
INDUSTRY FACTORS
Type & Size
- size based on the no. of employees
- Environmentally Critical Project (ECP)
- Environmentally Critical Area (ECA)
WASTE GENERATION
- Air emissions
- Liquid effluents
- Solid wastes
- Hazardous vs. Non-hazardous
POLLUTION MANAGEMENT
-Pollution Control System (PCS) effectiveness
PATHWAYS
Fate and transport of a contaminant or stressor:
- Prevailing wind direction
- Rainfall
- Terrain
- Ground water
Receiving Media/Receptors
AIR
- Distance to nearest community
RECEIVING SURFACE WATER BODY
- Distance to water body
- Size of population using water body
- Classification of water use
- Size of water body
- Economic value of water body
Receiving Media/Receptors
GROUND WATER
- Discharge to recharge area
- Distance to nearest well
- Ground water use
LAND
- Current land use within 0.5 km.
- Planned or potential land use within 0.5 km.
- No. of Environmentally Critical Areas within 1
km.
- Distance to nearest ECA
* Recharge area an area into which water naturally
flows or is pumped to serve as a drinking water supply
Environmental Performance
Compliance to Environmental Laws, Rules and
Regulations (RA 8749, RA 9275, RA 6969, PD
1586, RA 9003)
- Administrative violation
- Standards violation
* Effluent or emission or discharge
* Ambient
* Human Impact
- Recalcitrant?
Complaints
- Citizen & NGOs
- other Govt. Agencies, Private Institutions
Regional Priorities/Thrusts
Prioritization of PEMAPS Score
1. Project Risk Categorization
- Sub-total points from project considerations,
pathways, receiving media, environmental
performance are added.
- Sum of points are then categorized to:
* high risk (70-100 pts.)
* medium risk (40-69 pts.)
* low risk (0-39 pts.)
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