"Myanmar government places a priority on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in order to achieve an economical development, especia lly in Thilawa as Special Economic Zone (SEZ). Under these circumstances, Myanmar-Japan consortium have deci ded to develop Thilawa SEZ Class A and carried out Feasibility Study (F/S) for this Project since September in year 2012. Thilawa SEZ is located beside the Thanlyin and Kyauktan towns, about 20 km southeast side of Yangon city. Project area with 400ha is center of Thilawa SEZ with an area of about 2,400 ha. Thilawa SEZ is surrounded by ring road and accompanied with the container ports along the Yangon River. As of September 2013, there is no detailed legal process of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Myanmar. However, Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry (MOECAF) has been drafting the EIA Procedures which is defined detailed legal process regard ing preparation of EIA report, Environmental Management Plan (EMP), public involvement, approval of EIA report by MOECAF, and stakeholder meeting, and monitoring process after approval of EIA report. In this connection, the Project proponent decided to prepare independent EIA report including EMP. Based on the results of F/S, the Terms of Reference (TOR) for Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) investigation was agreed between the Project Proponent and MOECAF in the middle of February 2013 and discussed in 1st stakeholder meeting held in April 10th 2013. The field survey was implemented in accordance with the TOR from March to August 2013 and the result of EIA investigation including draft EMP was discussed in 2nd stakeholder meeting held on August 23rd 2013. Then EIA Report was submitted to MOECAF on 30th September 2013 with some modification based on the stakeholders? comments on Limited EIA Report which was prepared on August 30th 2013. ..."