The parliamentary committee on environment and labor will hold a confirmation hearing for Environment Minister-nominee Han Jeoung-ae on Wednesday. 

Han's hearing is likely to focus on a bill aimed at facilitating the construction of a new airport on Gadeok Island in Busan. 

Han proposed the bill in November last year when she was serving as a chief policymaker of the ruling Democratic Party. 

The bill, which will simplify the process for the environmental impact assessment and preliminary feasibility study for the project, prompted concerns among environmental groups. 

Lawmakers are also expected to question the nominee on weirs built along four major rivers and ways to achieve the Moon Jae-in government's goal of carbon neutrality.