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[Music] the quality of an e ia depends largely on the proper identification of the environmental and social aspects that may be subject to direct and indirect impacts from the proposed activity or project a clearly defined project scope is the basis of an adequate dia therefore identifying the relevant issues and concerns from the beginning is an essential part of the EIA process if the scope is too narrow the EIA might overlook significant impacts that are not necessarily obvious but real and possibly negative or leave out stakeholders who would be affected by an activity or project if the scope is too dry or unclear the EIA can become overstretch and overburdened with irrelevant issues require unnecessary effort and distract from the analysis of key issues with new development projects there is a risk of generating site-specific effects as well as impacts on the surrounding areas the risk and impacts do not always decrease with an increase in distance from the project site some impac