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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[The report on the technical review] underlines the salient points of the EIA Statement and discusses primarily: - the issues surrounding the project; - the techniques used to identify and assess its effects; - the environmental alternatives and the criteria used in their selection; - the most significant effects on the environment.  1, record 1, English, - most%20significant%20effect%20on%20the%20environment

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 CONT

[Le rapport d'analyse technique] mettra en lumière les points saillants de l'étude d'impact et analysera principalement : - la problématique du projet; - les techniques d'identification et d'évaluation des impacts; - les choix environnementaux et les critères utilisés pour ce faire; - les impacts majeurs sur l'environnement.  1, record 1, French, - impact%20majeur%20sur%20l%27environnement

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 2,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 CONT

... consider the following definitions extracted from various impact statements: "Major impacts - impacts of great visual or ecological consequence and which may be regional or long-term in nature. Such impacts may be difficult to prevent or mitigate."  1, record 2, English, - major%20impact

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 CONT

A major impact affects an entire population or species in sufficient magnitude to cause a decline in abundance and/or change in distribution beyond which natural recruitment (reproduction, immigration from unaffected areas) would not return that population or species ... to its former level within several generations. A major impact may also affect a subsistence or commercial resource use to the degree that the well being of the user is affected over a long term.  1, record 2, English, - major%20impact

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Le terme "impact" est accepté et il est largement utilisé.  2, record 2, French, - incidence%20majeure

Record number: 2, Textual support number: 2 OBS

Les impacts s'évaluent du point de vue de leur durée (à court, à moyen, à long terme; temporaire, permanente, etc.), de leur importance (forte, faible, positive, négative, bénéfique, nuisible, etc.) et de leur envergure (locale, régionale, etc.).  4, record 2, French, - incidence%20majeure

Record 2,  Textual support,  Spanish