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PMP - Environmental Management - Environmental Legislation Compliance

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Your company is developing a new industrial complex near a protected wetland area. Midway through the project, a new environmental regulation is enacted, requiring extensive habitat restoration and wildlife protection measures for projects within 5 km of protected areas. This regulation significantly impacts your project's scope, timeline, and budget. The project sponsor is pressuring you to find ways to minimize the impact on the project. As the project manager, what is the most appropriate course of action to ensure compliance with the new legislation while considering the project's constraints?

Engage environmental experts to develop a mitigation strategy that meets the minimum requirements of the new regulation while maintaining the original project scope and timeline as closely as possible.

Implement a phased approach to compliance, focusing on critical areas first and gradually introducing additional measures over time to spread out the cost and timeline impact on the project.

Conduct a thorough impact assessment of the new regulation, develop a comprehensive compliance plan, and present options to the sponsor for adjusting the project scope, timeline, and budget accordingly.

Negotiate with local authorities for a temporary exemption from the new regulation, citing the project's economic importance and the fact that it was initiated before the law was enacted.