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An ISO 9001 : 2008 Certified Company ISPS Compliant Port Facility GANGAVARAM PORT LIMITED.. _. GPLIMOEF/20 Dt.211112017 To The Director, Regional Office, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Regional Office (SEZ)" 1ST and IInd Floor, Handloom Export Promotion Council .M... Cathedral Garden Road, Nungambakkam, Chennai-34 Tel.No.044-28222325 . • Dear SirlMadam, Sub: EC Compliance and periodical Environmental Monitoring Reports-reg Ref: EC No:F.No.11-9112010-IA-III .Date.?" February, 2012. In compliance with EC at cited ref, Gangavaram Port is monitoring the Air, Noise, Ground water, Marine water and sediment quality at regular intervals and GPL is conforming with the standards and guidelines of the EC as well as consent order issued by the state pollution control board. Accordingly, we are submitting the compliance report ofEC along with six monthly reports including terrestrial and marine monitoring reports from April-2017 -Septernber -2017. A copy of CFO Compliance and Form-Vis enclosed. Yours Sincerely, For Gangavaram Port ltd, CIN : U45209TG2001PLC037861 Project Office PedagantyadaMandai, Gangavaram(Post), Visakhapatnam- 530 044. Andhra Pradesh, INDIA. Tel. : +918912701177,2277,2761377,2889999, Fax: +918912703377. Regd. Office "Hansa Plaza", Plot No. 798, Road No.36, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad- 500 033. Tel: 040 2351 9999, Fax No. : 040 2351 9990. E-mail: [email protected], Web: www.gangavaram.com r Environment and CRZ Clearance o.11-9112010-IA-III dtd.07.02.2012 for Phase-II S.No Conditions Compliance as Explained by GPL Snecific Conditions:- 1. "Consent for Establishment" shall be obtained from State Pollution Control Obtained "Consent for Establishment" from State Pollution Control Board under Air and Water Board under Air and Water Act and a Act vide order number copy shall be submitted to the Ministry APPCBNSPNSP/113/CFE/HO/20 12-3923., dt. 2/3/2012 and copy was submitted on 12105/2012 to before start of any construction work at RO, MoEF, Banglore vide Lr.no.GPLlMoEFI021. the site As the development is conceived in Cargo based master plan will be finalized during the several stages to reach the full future expansion based on market need. The master designed/planned capacity of the EMP will be made basing on the cargo master plan. port, it shall be necessary to prepare and put in place a master GPL has already submitted the EMP for the present EMP for the full scale development volume of cargo handling capacities i.e up to 41 and fit in the phase-wise creations as MMTPA in EIA report. modules forming part of the entire system. This shall facilitate a harmonious planning of environmental requirements to be put in place in a phased manner in accordance with preset goal and objective as outlined in the overall environmental plan for the port in its totality. 3. The 4.88 million cum of dredged material shall be used for shore Dredging work was completed and dredged material reclamation subject to its suitability. was used for filling of low lying land within port area. Any unsuitablel excess dredged material shall be disposed at dumpsite. Port shall identify suitable dumping spot for disposal of unsuitable material offshore on the basis of appropriate modeling study. 4. The green belt area proposed is about GPL is maintaining the 50 mt width of the green belt 10 % only. Proponent shall enhance on habitation side and completed the 40 acres of the the area of green belt. Width of the green belt. green belt shall be minimum 50 m. The present stage of development of GPL has established exclusive nursery with 80,000 40 acres of land for green belt which saplings and employed 160 people to maintain and should have been completed before improve the green belt continuously. January 2011 shall be reported to the Ministry together with the About Rs.1, 75, 00,0001- per annum is being spent programme adopted for for the development of green belt. implementation. Covered nearly 300 acres of green belt in GPL area in the true spirit. " There will be a quantum jump of port Adequate Additional railway sidings are provided. traffic from the existing level of 16.54 MTPA to 41 MTPA after Second railway line is provided. completion of the proposed developments and this is likely to Silos and In-motion wagon loader are established for register further leap when full scale faster evacuation planned capacity is reached later; it is therefore necessary even now to plan National high way is being expanded to 6 lane from appropriate measures to ensure that will existing 4 lane. be no mismatch between the planned capacity and the external logistic The above facilities are sufficient to cater to the requirements in the overall transport needs of more than approved capacity of transportation chain/network 41MMT. commensurate with the demand. A long range vision would be necessary to achieve a smooth flow of cargo traffic both within and outside port limits. 6. The Company should enhance the GPL has allocated 5% of the project cost for the CSR allocation for the CSR activities activities like health camps, educational infrastructure from 2. 5 to 5 % of the total cost facilities in the schools, drinking water supply for and item-wise details along with time bound action plan shall be prepared surrounding villages, community green belt and submitted to the Ministry's development programme (green visakha), women Regional Office at Bangalore. empowerment programme, promoting sports, Development of temples, community halls and skill Implementation of such program shall development programs. be ensured accordingly in a time bound manner. Action plan was submitted to MoEF, Chennai on 04/09/2015 vide Lr. No. GPLlMoEF/024. Accordingly, GPL is implementing the CSR activities in the surrounding areas. 7. All the recommendation of the EMP and GPL is complying with the recommendation of EMP DMP shall be complied with letter and and DMP. spirit. Prescribed monthly reports are being submitted to PCB on terrestrial as well as marine water monitoring activities. Environment Audit Statement (FORM- V) is being submitted during September every year. The half yearly reports are being submitted regularly to Regional Office, MoEF along with above reports. Mock drills for Marine !Land activities are being taken up periodically. 8. Construction activity shall be carried No construction activity was taken up other than out strictly as per the provisions of permitted activity according to the CRZ clearance. CRZ Notification, 2011. No construction work other than those permitted In Coastal Regulation Zone Notification shall be carried out in Coastal Regulation Zone area 9. The project shall be executed in The project was executed without any disturbance to such a manner that there shall not be the fishing activity. any disturbance to the fishing activity During the construction period, the quality of marine waters / sediment ( for Physicall chemicallMarine biology/ Benthic !Faunal Diversity / Heavy metals ) was monitored through a 3rd party every week (during Hide Tide and Low Tide) at 4 locations i.e l.Harbour basin 2.EnranceChennel 3.South brake wall outside 4. North brake wall outside. The reports were within specified limits indicating that the construction activities have not polluted the shore waters of the Gangavaram coast. Copies were submitted to RO, MoEF. During operations, as detailed above, the marine water quality is being monitored every fortnightly through the 3rd party and all the marine parameters are within the specified limits. Copies are being submitted to RO, MoEF and APPCB regularly. 10. It shall be ensured that there is no No displacement of any kind took place as the displacement of people, houses or Expansion works were taken up within the Port fishing activity as a result of the project premises only. 11. The project proponent shall set up A separate environment management cell headed by separate environmental management cell Assistant Vice President is set up. for effective implementation of the stipulated environmental safeguards The Cell consists of eight executives and supporting under the supervision of a Senior staff under the supervision of Director (Operations). Executive 12. The funds earmarked for environment Funds are included in the budget and GPL is not management plan shall be included in diverting any funds from the budget earmarked for the budget and this shall not be diverted EMP statement enclosed in Annexure- -E. for any other purposes. General Conditions:- 1. Appropriate measures must be GPL is not drawing any ground water from the port taken while undertaking digging area or its surroundings. activities to avoid any likely degradation of water quality The ground water quality is being monitored every month through the 3rd party at 2 locations i.e 1. Gangavaram. 2. Port Premises (Open well) for its physical/ chemical parameters and all the parameters are within the specified limits. GPL is submitting the monthly monitoring reports to the APPCB, RO, VSP and six monthly reports to the regional Office, MoEF, Bangalore/Chennai. Reports are conforming to the statutory limits. 2. Full support shall be extended Full support is being extended and all the to the officers of this details / action plan and reports are being Ministry/Regional Office at submitted during the inspections. Bangalore by the project proponent during inspection of the project for monitoring purposes by furnishing full details and action plan including action taken reports in respect of mitigation measures and other environmental protection activities 3. A six-Monthly monitoring report shall Six monthly monitoring reports are being submitted to need to be submitted by the project the RO,ChennailBangloreas follows: proponents to the Regional Office of GPLlMoEF/005; this Ministry at Bangalore regarding GPLlMoEF/006; the implementation of the stipulated GPLlMoEF/009;dated 26/7/2012; conditions GPLlMoEF/010;dated 8/3/2013; GPLlMoEF/Oll;dated 8/8/2013; GPLlMoEF/O12;dated27/01/2014, GPLlMoEF/013;dtd16/07/2014 GPLlMoEF/014; GPLlMoEF/015; GPLlMoEFI016; dated 21110/2015; GPLlMoEFI017; dated 20104/2016 GPLlMoEFl018;dated 06110/2016 GPLlMoEFl019;dated 19104/2017 4.