Public Participation In Environmental Impact Assessment Of USA

Since the Environmental Impact Assessment System has been established as a basic system of environmental law in the world, because of the advantages of technological capabilities,predict function and comprehensive content, it has become the main reference of the environmental administrative decision. Public Participation became a means of promoting democratic decision which permeates to the government environmental decision-making, became the important means of coordinating man-land relationship and realizing the sustainable development. America, as the first country which practiced Public Participation in legislation, not only provided means for realizing the country for the implementation of national environmental policy, but also provided a powerful legal protection in environmental objectives.Thorough analysis of the Public Participation, Part One defines the scope of the public,and specially and deeply analyzes the theoretical basis and its particular features of Public Participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment System.Part Two is a brief introduction of the development background and final establishment of the Environmental Impact Assessment System, and the process of Public Participation was introduced in the Environmental Impact Assessment System. Studying on this process is helpful for completely understanding the American Public Participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment System.Part Three is the focus of this paper, through the procedural research on the American Public Participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment System (especially on the process of writing the Environmental Impact Assessment),it can been seen that it achieves the true respect of public opinions. And with the institutional guarantee(mainly including Environmental Information Disclosure System and Environmental Public Interest Litigation ) , American Public Participation in the Environmental Impact Assessment System has made a spectacular result.In the end,through research on the Public Participation in American Environmental Impact Assessment System, especially on its production and development course and on the introduction of its process (especially on the process of writing the Environmental Impact Assessment), and institutional guarantee, it pointed out the weakness of Public Participation in Chinese Environmental Impact Assessment System. Compared with developed the Public Participation in American Environmental Impact Assessment System, Chinese is now at an initial stage .Based on the specific, practical and feasible United States environmental policy, we hope to find out some reference to Chinese Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment System, and several suggestions on improving the Chinese Public Participation in Environmental Impact Assessment System are also putting forward.