STRICTLY RESTRICTED FOR COMPANY USE ONLY RESTRICTED The information given in this report is not to be communicated either directly or indirectly to the press or to any person not holding an official position in the CIL/Government. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN (As per EIA Notification, 2006) For MADHUBAND NLW COAL WASHERY Normative Capacity: 5.0 MTPA Raw Coal Peak Capacity : 6.5 MPTA Raw Coal Land Requirement 23 Ha (Block II Area) Bharat Coking Coal Limited (February, 2011) Prepared at Central Mine Planning & Design Institute Ltd. (A Subsidiary of Coal India Ltd.) Regional Institute - II, Koyla Bhawan complex, Koyla Nagar, Dhanbad - 826005 (Jharkhand), India C O N T E N T S SL. CHAPTER SUBJECT PAGE NO NO. NO. 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY I- XIII 2 1 INTRODUCTION 1-7 3 2 PROJECT DESCRIPTION 8-30 4 3 DESCRIPTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT 31-74 ANTICIPATED ENVIRONMENTAL 5 4 75-128 IMPACTS & MITIGATION MEASURES ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVES 6 5 129 (TECHNOLOGY & SITE) ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING 7 6 130-131 PROGRAMME 8 7 ADDITIONAL STUDIES 132-135 PROJECT BENEFITS IMPROVEMENTS 9 8 136-137 IN PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ENVIRONMENTAL COST BENEFIT 10 9 138-139 ANALYSIS 11 10 EMP 140-142 12 11 SUMMARY & CONCLUSION 143-146 DISCLOSURE OF CONSULTANTS 13 12 147 ENGAGED QUESTIONNAIRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL APPRAISAL 14 148-172 FOR COAL WASHERY PROJECTS 15 ANNEXURE-I ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE C-1 to C-4 16 ANNEXURE-II PUBLIC HEARING PROCEEDINGS AII-1 to AII-23 17 ANNEXURE-III COPY OF APPROVED TOR AIII-1 to AIII-3 Proposed Madhuband NLW Washery EIA_EMP TEXT(FINAL) i JOB No. 200310002 LIST OF PLATES SL NO. DESCRIPTION PLATE NO. 1 LOCATION PLAN 1 SURFACE LAYOUT PLAN STORM WATER 2 2 SAMPLING STATIONS STUDY AREA MAP OF CORE & BUFFER 3 3 ZONE SHOWING SOIL SAMPLING STATIONS DRAINAGE CONTOUR MAP SHOWING 4 4 WATER SAMPLING STATIONS STUDY AREA MAP SHOWING ROAD & 5 RAILWAY AND AIR & NOISE SAMPLING 5 STATIONS STUDY AREA MAP SHOWING HABITATION & 6 6 FOREST STUDY AREA MAP SHOWING 7 7 HYDROLOGICAL FEATURES STUDY AREA MAP SHOWING LAND USE 8 8 CLASSES STUDY AREA MAP SHOWING ISOPLETHS OF 9 9 INCREMENTAL SPM DISTRIBUTION STUDY AREA MAP SHOWING SURFACE 10 10 LAYOUT WITH GREEN BELT DEVELOPMENT 11 WATER & SLIME CIRCUIT 11 12 EQUIPMENT FLOW DIAGRAM 12 13 WATER BALANCE DIAGRAM 13 FUGUTIVE DUST SOURCES & MITIGATION- 14 14 FLOW DIAGRAM 15 COAL RECEIPT AND DESPATCH 15 Proposed Madhuband NLW Washery EIA_EMP TEXT(FINAL) ii JOB No. 200310002 LIST OF CHARTS Sl NO DESCRIPTION CHART NO. PAGE NO. PROPOSED ORGANISATIONAL CHART 1 1 C-1 FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 2 DEPARTMENT ORGANISATION 2 C-2 (PROPOSED) AT CORPORATE LEVEL ENVIRONMENTAL PLAN OF 3 3 C-3 MADHUBAND NLW WASHERY HARMONOGRAM FOR 4 4 C-4 IMPLEMENTATION OF EMP Proposed Madhuband NLW Washery EIA_EMP TEXT(FINAL) iii JOB No. 200310002 CHAPTER -1 INTRODUCTION Coal is an important infra-structural input and a dominant source of energy in India accounting for 54% of the country’s primary energy needs. The quality of coal plays an important role in environmental aspects during its use especially in power plants. Due to drift origin of Indian coal, ash content is quite high and coal seams have dirt bands of carbonaceous nature. High ash content in coal causes environmental pollution apart from reducing plant efficiency and adding the cost of coal transportation per unit calorific value. Further ash disposal is itself a difficult task with adverse environmental impacts. The environmental law prohibits the use of coal having ash more than 34% for use in power plants in critically polluted area, ecological sensitive area or urban area, or located at distance of more than 1000 km from pit head. Thus it is imperative that coal is beneficiated before use not only for value addition but also as environmental mitigation measures. The coal seams in mines under Bharat Coking Coal Limited have been found to have coking propensities to different extent and it has been found by scientific investigation that production of high valued coking coal can be produced by washing this coal. The outputs or the balance of products comprises of coking coal with 17-19% ash for use in steel making, middling for use in thermal power plants and rejects too can be gainfully utilized in power generation through fluidized bed combustion plants. The augmentation of quality coking coal will reduce the dependence on import saving huge foreign exchange. In the backdrop of the above, it was decided in review meeting taken by Minister of State (Coal) at Kolkata on 11.01.2007 to set up modular washeries of high capacity for economic washing of available high ash coal in order to supply improved quality and sized coal to consumers. Madhuban NLW Wahery (5Mty) is one such washery proposed to be installed on Build, Operate and Maintain concept with the state of the art technology for right mix of products with optimized yields. 1.1 Brief Description of The Project The proposed Madhuband NLW coal washery will be located in the close vicinity of a existing coal washery in Jharia Coalfields under command area of Bharat Coking coal Limited. It is located in a non forest and non coal bearing area. It is planned for three prduct namely clean metallurgical coal, Power coal and rejects. Its normative and peak capacities are 5.0 MTPA & 6.5 MTPA respectively. The proposed project will receive coal from Muraidih OCP, Shatabdi OCP, Block-II OCP and Akashkinaree OCP with Muraidih OCP and Block-II OCP contributing 78% of raw coal. Clean coal from the washery will be linked to steel plants at Durgapur, Bhilai & Bokaro. The power coal (middlings) will be linked to the different power station, and the rejects to the Proposed Madhuband NLW Washery EIA_EMP TEXT(FINAL) 1 JOB No. 200310002 proposed FBC plants. The MOU/Agreements with the steel plants and TPPs have been made for the existing washeries. These MOUs shall be revised prior to commencement of the production from the proposed washeries. Present Status The tender for setting up of Proposed Madhuband NLW Washery on BOM basis has been finalized and it has been awarded to M/S Heavy Engineering Corporation Ltd. (the L-1 Bidder) Approval of Madhuband Washery The TEFR of Madhuband NLW Coal Washery (5 MTY) was placed before the 257th meeting of Board of Directors of Coal India Limited held on 31.05.2010. After detailed deliberation, the Board approved the TEFR of Madhuband NLW Coal Washery (5 MTY) on BOM basis at an initial capital investment of Rs.292.0427 Crores. 1.2 Purpose of the report The purpose of the EIA/EMP Report is to apply for grant of environmental clearance for the proposed Madhuband NLW Coal Washery (Nromative capacity: 5.0 MTY & peak capacity: 6.5 MTY) from Ministry of Environment & Forests, Govt. of India in view of EIA notification 2006 dated 14th September’06. The proposal of terms of reference (TOR) was discussed in EAC meeting held on 25th August, 2009. Subsequently the Ministry of Environment & Forest, Govt. of India (MOEF) issued TOR vide letter No. J- 11015/234/2009-IA.II(M) dated 10-09-2009 for obtaining environmental clearance for Madhuband NLW Coal Washery of BCCL. Presentation of Draft EMP of Proposed Madhuband washery made to Jharkhand State Pollution Board on 06.12.2010 at Ranchi. Pubpic Hearing was held on 28.01.2011 It is envisaged that the proposed Madhuband Washery will run as per approved TEFR washing raw coal @ 5.0 MTPA. The Balance of product is given below. Item Wt % Ash % Quantity (MTPA) a) Clean coal 40.3 19.7 2.0 b) Middlings 19.4 40.7 1.0 c) Rejects 40.3 66.91 2.0 Total 100 42.8 5.0 1.3 Identification of Project Proponent Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL), a subsidiary of Coal India Limited is a prime producer of coking & non-coking coal in the country. It operates coal mines in the state of Jharkhand and West Bengal. Its operation is spread over 305 Km2 in the districts of Dhanbad, Bokaro and Burdwan. Mining operation is spread over two coalfields namely Jharia Coalfield and Ranigunj Coalfield. BCCL has produced 27.51 Mt. of coal during 2009-10. Proposed Madhuband NLW Washery EIA_EMP TEXT(FINAL) 2 JOB No. 200310002 Annual coal production of BCCL since 2000-01 is given below: Year Production 2000-01 25.97 2001-02 25.25 2002-03 24.15 2003-04 22.68 2004-05 22.31 2005-06 23.30 2006-07 24.20 2007-08 25.21 2008-09 25.51 2009-10 27.51 Presently BCCL is operating 65 UG and OC mines, 7 coal washeries . The whole operation is spread over 12 administrative areas under respective Area GM/ CGM. The project under consideration, i.e. Proposed Madhuband NLW Coal Washery is administratively under Bolck II Area of BCCL headed by General Manager, Block II Area. Geologically, it falls in Jharia Coalfield in Dhanbad District of Jharkhand. Brief description of nature, size and location of the project Nature & Size The technology proposed in the approved Techno-Economic-Feasibility- Report (TEFR) is based on five stage benification process consisting of three stages Heavy Media Cyclone with two stage Fine Coal Benification for cleaning of raw coal leading to production of clean coal and rejects. In the fine coal benification, the 1mm – 0.25mm will be processed in Teeter Bed Seperator, which is an advanced technology as on date in the world & the (-)0.25mm coal will be beneficiated through conventional Floatation System. Raw coal throughput capacity, clean coal production, middlings and rejects generation is @ 5.0 MTPA, 2.0 MTPA, 1.0 MPTA and 2 MTPA respectively.