The DoE provides notice that the draft ‘Preliminary Environmental Management Plan’ (EMP) is published below, for information purposes only. The draft EMP is, as the title confirms, ‘preliminary’ and has not been reviewed or updated since it was first provided to the Department of Environment and CIG Project Management Team in April 2015. The document has not been reviewed by the Environmental Assessment Board, as their efforts have been focused upon the review of the EIA documentation – Environmental Statement, Technical Appendices and Non-Technical Summary. The draft EMP does not contain any mitigation measures that are not already including in the aforementioned EIA documentation.

One of the primary purposes of an EMP is to outline the mitigation measures to be employed during the construction and operation phases of a project to avoid or minimise impacts, and to establish monitoring and compliance regimes around those mitigation measures. The EMP will form part of the tender documentation for the project should it proceed.

The EMP cannot be finalized until the Cayman Islands Government has decided on which of the mitigation options outlined in the Environmental Statement they are willing and/or able to commit to. http://www.doe.ky/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Cayman_CBF_Preliminary_EMP-Draft_Apr_2015.pdf