中华人民共和国环境影响评价法（2018年12月29日施行）第二十四条

建设项目的环境影响评价文件经批准后，建设项目的性质、规模、地点、采用的生产工艺或者防治污染、防止生态破坏的措施发生重大变动的，建设单位应当重新报批建设项目的环境影响评价文件。

建设项目的环境影响评价文件自批准之日起超过五年，方决定该项目开工建设的，其环境影响评价文件应当报原审批部门重新审核；原审批部门应当自收到建设项目环境影响评价文件之日起十日内，将审核意见书面通知建设单位。

The Law of the People's Republic of China on Appraising of Environmental Impacts (effective since December 29, 2018), Article 24

Where, after the document for Appraising of the environmental Impacts of a construction project is approved, major changes are made in the nature, scale and location of the construction project, in the production techniques adopted, or in the measures taken for prevention and control of pollution and for prevention of damage of the ecology, the construction unit shall submit a new document for Appraising of the environmental Impacts of the construction project for examination and approval.

Where decision is made for starting construction of a project more than five years following the date the document for Appraising of the environmental Impacts is approved, the said document shall be submitted to the original examination and approval department for examination and verification anew; the said department shall, within 10 days from the date it receives the document for Appraising of the environmental Impacts of the construction project, inform the construction unit of the result of the examination and verification in writing.