ANNEX 2-20

TEMPLATE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PLAN (EMoP) OF PROPONENT

TEMPLATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING PLAN (EMoP) with ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY PERFORMANCE LEVELS
1,2,3
(EQPLs)

Sampling & Measurement Plan EQPL MANAGEMENT SCHEME

Potential Annual
Key Environmental Aspects Parameter to Lead MANAGEMENT
Impacts Per Estimated EQPL RANGE
per Project Phase be Monitored Person MEASURE
Envt’l Sector Method Frequency Location Cost
ALERT ACTION LIMIT ALERT ACTION LIMIT
PRE-CONSTRUCTION
I.
PHASE
Environmental Aspect # 1 Water Quality: Total Grab sampling; weekly Indicate Project P500/sample *
Siltation Suspended RA9275 lab coordinates/ PCO 2 bottles/
(shown with a sample entry Solids (TSS) analysis method Description station/wk * 52
in succeeding columns) of station wks/yr =
P52,000
Environmental Aspect #2
II. CONSTRUCTION PHASE
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Environmental Aspect #1
Environmental Aspect #2
III. OPERATION PHASE
Environmental Aspect #1
Environmental Aspect #2
IV. ABANDONMENT PHASE
Environmental Aspect #1
Environmental Aspect #2
1EQPL-Environmental Quality Performance Level
o Alert or Red Flag : early warning
o Action Level : point where management measures must be employed so as not to reach the regulated threshold or limit level, or to
reduce deterioration of affected environmental component to pre-impact or optimum environmental quality
o Limit Level : regulated threshold of pollutant (standard that must not be exceeded); point where emergency response measures
must be employed to reduce pollutants to lower than standard limit.
2 NOTE: Sections on EQPLs to be filled out only if EQPLs are willing to be committed by the Proponent at the pre-ECC stage. Otherwise, Proponent may opt to

have EQPLs established post-ECC and mutually agreed upon among Proponent, EMB and other MMT members. Otherwise, only the LIMIT Level shall be the
reference for regulatory compliance. This means that environmental management measures are formulated not to exceed this regulated threshold.
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At the FS/pre-ECC stage Impacts Management Plan (IMP), only the 3rd or “limit level” is required to be the reference for regulatory compliance in the EMB
system of management and monitoring of Environmental Quality Performance of the project. The commitment for the two lower levels and corresponding
measures may be formulated post-ECC: the “alert or warning” and “action” levels may be subjectively set at a certain percentage lower than the limit level or
standard, particularly for situations where the baseline or current environment of the project already has a critical level of the specific parameter of concern or
is sensitive to such parameter at levels proven or observed to be lower than the set national standard. These two pre-standard levels may be self-formulated
or with the MMT during technical skill building workshops with the community-based MMT members for appropriate utilization of the MMT’s indigenous
knowledge in identifying quasi/pseudo-indicators of environmental quality status and relating these to quantitative concentrations/measures of the parameters,
e.g. a certain color of the water or air may be determined to be equivalent to a range of concentrations of a certain parameter; a change in color of the leaf
from green to yellowish or white may be considered indicative of the effect of a certain range of concentration of salts/brine or other chemicals; an
examination of the phloem/xylem of a tree wherein dried leaves and blackened/burned bark give the impression of a dead tree may show the tree is still alive
and capable of recovery, particularly if with assistance from the Proponent and/or community; a rotten egg smell of the air may be correlated with a certain
range of concentration of hydrogen sulfide, etc… These indicators all serve as an aide to monitoring and validation of the Proponent or the MMT as a whole,
and can then provide adequate time and strategy for the Proponent to take measures to prevent the worsening of certain environmental conditions even
before these reach the limit or standard levels. Once the Environmental Quality Performance Levels (EQPLs) are formulated with the MMT and consequently
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approved by the EMB, the Proponent can then include these in its semi-annual Compliance Monitoring Report (CMR); the MMT can then validate
performance thru its Compliance Monitoring and Validation Report (CMVR); and the EMB can then make an evaluation of performance of both Proponent and
MMT thru its Compliance Evaluation Report (CER).

ANNEX 2-20