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DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT OF THE PROPOSED EXPANSION OF LATERITE MINE IN AN AREA OF 14.714 HA BY SRI C.M. RAMASUDHAKAR REDDY AT SURVEY NO. 515/3 (P), RUDRAKOTA VILLAGE, KAVALI MANDAL, SPSR NELLORE DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH 1. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT 2. ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN 3. COMPLIANCE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 4. ANNEXURES Terms of Reference: AP/NLR/MIN/09/2020/2106, dt.14.09.2020 Monitoring Period : October, 2020 – December, 2020 Project Cost : 40 lakhs Project No. 0221-02-07 February, 2021 Studies and Documentation By Submitted By TEAM Labs and Consultants Sri. C.M Ramasudhakar Reddy NABET – Certificate No: NABET/ EIA/ No. 8/111, R.S Road, 1821/ SA 0114, dt.04.09.2020 R.S Kodur, Y S R Nellore District, B-115 to 117& 509, Annapurna Block, Andhra Pradesh - 516 101 Aditya Enclave, Ameerpet, Hyderabad-500 038 Mobile No. +91 94400 08434. Phone: 040-23748 555/616, Telefax: 040-23748666 Email: [email protected] SUBMITTED TO ANDHRA PRADESH POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD, REGIONAL OFFICE, NELLORE SRI C.M. RAMASUDHAKAR REDDY SURVEY NO. 515/3 (P), RUDRAKOTA VILLAGE, KAVALI MANDAL, SPSR NELLORE DISTRICT, ANDHRA PRADESH 1. ENVIRONMENT IMPACT ASSESSMENT REPORT Studies and Documentation By Submitted By Sri. C.M Ramasudhakar Reddy TEAM Labs and Consultants No. 8/111, R.S Road, B-115 to 117 & 509, Annapurna Block, R.S Kodur, Y S R Nellore District, Aditya Enclave, Ameerpet, Andhra Pradesh - 516 101 Hyderabad-500 038 Mobile No. +91 94400 08434. Phone: 040-23748 555/616, Telefax: 040-23748666 Email: [email protected] SUBMITTED TO ANDHRA PRADESH POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD, REGIONAL OFFICE, NELLORE CONTENTS Section Chapter Page. No 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Introduction 1-1 1.2 Purpose of the Report 1-1 1.3 Brief Background of the Project 1-2 1.4 Mining Method 1-2 1.5 Mine Location 1-2 1.6 Environmental Impact Assessment 1-4 1.7 Scope of EIA Studies 1-8 1.8 Clearance requirement for the project 1-8 2.0 Project Description 2.0 Introduction 2-1 2.1 Land use pattern of the mine lease area 2-1 2.2 Geology of the area 2-2 2.2.1 Topography 2-2 2.2.2 Regional Geology 2-2 2.2.3 Local Geology 2-2 2.3 Reserves 2-4 2.4 Conceptual Mining plan 2-6 2.5 Mining Technology 2-8 2.6 Development and production 2-8 2.7 Machinery Requirement 2-10 2.8 Employment Potential 2-10 2.9 Site Services 2-11 2.10 Fire Fighting Facilities 2-11 2.11 Water Requirement 2-11 2.12 Effluent generation and groundwater 2-12 2.13 Crushing and Screening Plant 2-12 2.14 Reclamation and Rehabilitation 2-12 2.15 Details of Cluster Projects 2-12 3.0 Description of the Environment 3.1 Introduction 3-1 3.2 Land Environment 3-1 3.2.1 Physiography 3-1 3.2.2 Geology 3-7 3.2.3 Hydrogeology 3-7 3.2.4 Soils 3-10 Section Chapter Page. No 3.3 Water Environment 3-15 3.3.1 Surface Water Resources 3-15 3.3.1.1 Surface Water Quality 3-15 3.3.1.2 Ground Water Resources 3-17 3.3.1.3 Quality of Ground Water 3-17 3.4 Air Environment 3-21 3.4.1 Meteorology 3-21 3.4.2 Meteorological Station at Mine Lease area 3-24 3.4.3 Ambient Air Quality 3-27 3.4.4 Scope of Field Study 3-30 3.4.5 Description of Sampling Locations 3-31 3.4.6 Ambient Air Quality Status 3-32 3.4.7 Noise Environment 3-34 3.4.8 Traffic Study 3-37 3.5 Socio Economic Environment 3-37 3.5.1 Demography 3-37 3.5.2 Population Distribution 3-37 3.5.3 Literacy 3-38 3.5.4 Employment/Occupation 3-39 3.5.5 Living Standards and Infrastructure 3-42 3.5.6 Land Utilization 3-43 3.5.7 Project Economy 3-44 3.6 Ecology 3-45 4.0 Anticipated Environment Impacts and Mitigation Measures 4.0 Identification of Impacts 4-1 4.1 Environmental impacts from mining and associated infrastructure 4-1 4.1.1 Impact Networks 4-4 4.2 Prediction and Assessment of Impacts 4-8 4.2.1 Methodology of Rapid Impact Assessment Matrix 4-8 4.2.2 Air Environment 4-12 4.2.3 Details of Mathematical Modeling 4-15 4.2.4 Emissions from Mining activity and transportation 4-17 4.2.5 Air Quality Predictions 4-19 4.3 Occupational Health Hazards Due to Dust Pollution 4-25 4.4 Noise Environment 4-25 4.4.1 Prediction of Impact on Noise Quality 4-26 4.4.2 Occupational Health Hazards of Noise Pollution 4-29 4.5 Ground Vibrations 4-29 4.6 Water Environment 4-30 4.7 Land Environment 4-34 4.8 Biological Environment 4-37 Section Chapter Page. No 4.9 Socio-economic Environment 4-42 4.10 Prediction of Impact on Vehicular Traffic 4-45 5.0 Analysis of Alternatives 5.0 Introduction 5-1 5.1 Alternative Sites 5-1 5.2 Alternatives in Technology 5-1 6.0 Environmental Monitoring Program 6.1 Introduction 6-1 6.1.1 Objectives 6-1 6.1.2 Methodology 6-1 6.1.3 Ambient Air Quality (AAQ) Monitoring 6-2 6.1.4 Water Quality Monitoring 6-3 6.1.5 Noise Level Monitoring 6-7 6.1.6 Responsibility of Monitoring and Reporting System 6-8 6.2 Environmental Monitoring Budget 6-8 7.0 Additional Studies (Risk Assessment) 71 Introduction 7-1 7.2 Objectives and Scope 7-1 7.3 Mining Activity 7-1 7.4 Hazard Identification 7-1 7.5 Hazard Analysis 7-3 7.6 Disaster Management 7-3 7.6.1 Clearance 7-4 7.6.2 Construction of Services 7-4 7.6.3 Failure of Pit Slopes 7-4 7.6.4 Transportation 7-5 7.6.5 House Keeping 7-5 7.7 Disaster Management Plan 7-5 7.7.1 Objective of Disaster Management Plan 7-6 7.7.2 Communication System 7-6 7.7.3 Facilities 7-6 7.7.4 Personal 7-6 7.7.5 Operating Procedure 7-6 8.0 Project Benefits 8.0 Introduction 8-1 9.0 Environment Cost Benefit Analysis Section Chapter Page. No 9.0 Introduction 9-1 10.0 Environment Management Plan 10.0 Introduction 10-1 10.1 Sources of Pollution and Control Measures 10-1 10.2 Air Pollution and its Control 10-1 10.3 Greening program 10-2 10.4 Occupational Health and Safety Measures to Control 10-2 10.5 Noise pollution and its control 10-3 10.6 Occupational Health and Safety Measures to Control Exposure 10-3 10.7 Water Quality Management 10-3 10.7.1 Water Resources 10-3 10.7.2 Rain water Harvesting Plan 10-3 10.8 Soil Conservation Measures 10-5 10.9 Afforestation / Greenbelt Plan 10-6 10.10 Waste Management 10-8 10.11 Environmental Management System (EMS) 10-8 10.12 Environment Policy 10-9 10.13 Socio- Economic Development 10-10 10.14 Corporate Environmental Responsibility Action Plan 10-10 10.15 Environment Management Cell 10-11 10.16 Other Management Aspects 10-12 10.17 Occupational Health and Protective Measures 10-13 10.18 Cost proposed for Environmental Protection Measures 10-14 11.0 Summary and Conclusion IV ANNEXURES A-1 Copy of Mining Lease, AMP Letter and Google Earth Map A-1 List of Tables 1.1 Salient features of the study area 1-2 1.2 The Geo coordinates of the mine lease area 1-4 1.3 Required Approvals and Applicable statutes 1-9 2.1 Details of the Lease Area 2-1 2.2 Land use Pattern of the Mine Lease Area 2-2 2.3 Geological reserves 2-5 2.4 Year wise production 2-8 2.5 List of Machinery 2-10 2.6 Employment Potential 2-11 2.7 Water Requirement 2-12 3.1 Details of the mine lease location and Study Area 3-1 3.2 Soil Analysis Data 3-13 3.3 Soil Test Results – Reference Tables 3-14 3.4 Surface water Analysis Data 3-16 3.5 Locations of groundwater sampling 3-17 3.6 Groundwater analysis data 3-20 3.7 Normal climatological table 3-22 3.8 Frequency Distribution of Wind Speed and Wind Direction 3-25 3.9 Locations of Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Stations 3-31 3.10 Ambient Air Quality Data status 3-32 3.11 AQI Index Showing the Results of Ambient Air Quality 3-34 3.12 Effects on Human Beings at Different Noise Levels 3-36 3.13 Equivalent Noise levels in the Study Area 3-36 3.14 Population Distribution – Study Area 3-39 3.15 Literacy - Study Area 3-40 3.16 Employment - Study Area 3-40 3.17 Main Workers - Study Area 3-41 3.18 Land Utilization Pattern 3-44 3.19 List of ecologically important plant species observed 3-54 3.20 List of agricultural crops & commercial crops 3-56 3.21 List of plant species Recorded 3-57 3.22 List of Fauna and Their Conservation Status 3-64 3.23 listed birds are Least Concern under IUCN and Schedule - IV 3-65 3.24 List of Reptiles either spotted or reported from the study area 3-67 3-25 List of Amphibians either spotted or reported from the study area.