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Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance (Cap. 499) Section 5 (7) Environmental Impact Assessment Study Brief No. ESB-096/2002 Project Title : Central Kowloon Route (hereinafter known as the Project) Name of Applicant : Highways Department, HKSAR Government (hereinafter known as the Applicant) BACKGROUND 1.1 An application (No. ESB-096/2002) for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study brief under section 5(1) of the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance (EIAO) was submitted by the Applicant on 5 January 2002 with a project profile (No. PP-158/2002) (the Project Profile). 1.2 The Applicant proposes to construct a dual-2 lane trunk road, named the Central Kowloon Route (CKR) (the Project), across the Kowloon Peninsula of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) linking the West Kowloon Reclamation in the west and the proposed South East Kowloon Development (SEKD) in the east. The Project will connect the West Kowloon Highway at Yau Ma Tei Interchange to the future Trunk Road T2 at SEKD and Tseung Kwan O Western Coast Road to form a strategic highway link to serve the existing and planned developments in West Kowloon, East Kowloon and Tseung Kwan O. The scope of the Project does not cover the reclamation works for the SEKD as it has been assumed that the new reclamation under SEKD for the eastern landfall of the CKR will be available at the time of construction of the CKR (section 3.3.1 of the Project Profile refers). The scope of the Project is shown in Appendix A and described below :- provision of elevated and at-grade slip road connections between the tunnel and the road network on the West Kowloon Reclamation, including modifications to the Yau Ma Tei Interchange; re-alignment of drainage culverts on the West Kowloon Reclamation affected by the tunnel; replacement of a section of at-grade road D1 (Hoi Wang Road) by an elevated road; construction of tunnel ramps, a tunnel portal and a ventilation building w