Research on the public participation problem in EIA of coal mining program

With the development of coal mining project, the environment problem is becoming very serious, so the work of environment impact assessment is more and more important in the process of coal mining project. Public participation is important as a part of environment impact assessment. In order to promote and regulate the public participation in environment impact assessment activities, the Interim Procedures of Public Participation for EIA was enacted by ministry of environmental protection of the people's republic of China in February 2006. Although the interim measures play certain roles,there are still many problems of public participation in EIA and the effectiveness is bad. For this, the existing problems of public participation in environment impact assessment are analyzed, and corresponding strategies are made. It will make China public participation of environment impact assessment effectively carried out, provide the basis for environment management and promote economy to develop coordinately。