SINGARENI COLLIERIES COMPANY LIMITED (A Government Company) MANDAMARRI-AREA PART – I HALF YEARLY COMPLIANCE REPORT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE CONDITIONS UP TO 31st March 2015 A. SALIENT FEATURES OF THE PROJECT: 1. Name of the Project : Ramakrishnapur Open Cast Project Phase-I Organization : Singareni Collieries Company Limited Coalfield : Godavari Valley Coal Field Type of Mine : Open Cast Mine Technology : Shovel-Dumper combination 2. Environmental Clearance J-11015/219/2008-IA.II(M) GoI MoEF dated: A. Letter No & date : 16.03.2010 B. Sanctioned Capacity : 3.40 MTPA C. Mining Lease Area.( total area) : 637.52 ha D. Date of Public Hearing : 22.10.2009 3. Location of the Project A. Village : Doragari Palli Village B. Tehasil / Mandal : Mancherial C. District : Adilabad D. State : Telangana State E. Latitude : 18054’11’’ to 18057’37’’ N F. Longitude : 79027’57’’to 79030’.35’’ E G. Topo Sheet : No:56N/5&56N/9 H. Nearest railway station : Ravindra Khani Rly. Station (2.5 Km.) I. Nearest Airport : Hyderabad Airport (250 Km.) J. Nearest town : Mancherial (10 Km.) 4. Address for Correspondence A. Name : M. Suresh B. Designation : Dy. General Manager C. Address : Ramakrishnapur Open Cast Project Phase-I D. PIN Code : 504301 E. E-mail ID : [email protected] F. Telephone No. : 08736-226005 G. Fax No. : 08736-257033 5. Life of the Project A. Date of Opening : 20.12.2013 B. Total Life of the project as per EMP : 10 years C. Balance Life : 8 years 6. Seams A. No. of Seams Present : 11 Seams 1 Presently LB2 seam, 2 seam, 3 seam 4 seam B. Seams being worked : and 5 seams are being extracted. Coal production is commissioned on 14.03.2014 7. Depth A. Minimum Depth : 30 m B. Maximum Depth : 180 m C. Present working depth : 78 m 8. Reserves A. Total Geological Reserves : 30.79 MT B. Total Extractable Reserves : 27.81 MT C. Reserves already Extracted : 4.47 MT D. Balance Reserves : 23.34 MT E. Coal production during last 6 months : 0.60 MT 9. Over Burden A. Total OB : 226.91M m3 B. OB extracted since inception : 23.242 M m3 C. OB removed in last 6 months : 10.369 M m3 D. Stripping Ratio : 24.9 Cu.m /T (average) 10. Top Soil A. Total Topsoil : 1.29 M m3 B. Topsoil extracted since inception : 0.596 M m3 C. Topsoil removed during last six : 0.167 M m3 months 11. Land Requirement A. Total Requirement : 637.52 Ha. B. Forestland Involved : 202.50 Ha C. Non-forestland : 435.02 Ha. 12. Activity wise Land Requirement As per EMP (Ha) Present status (Ha) A. Quarry Area : 253.42 Ha 75 B. External OB Dumps : 264.26 Ha 80 C. Infrastructures : 8.08 Ha 7.76 D. Others : 111.76 Ha 111.76 E. Total : 637.52 Ha 274.36 13. Statutory Clearances A. Mining Plan Approval : Approved by MoC on 09.03.2010 B. Ground Water Clearance : Lr.No.157/T/2008, Dated 30-04-2009 60/PCB/CFE/RO-NZB/HO/2010/822, Dated: C. Consent for Establishment : 12-10-2010 CFO has been obtained vide D. Consent for Operation : TSPCB/RCP/N8/22340/HO/CFO/2014/296,Dat ed; 03.12.2014 and valid up to 31.12.2015. E. Forest Clearance : Forest land diversion is obtained for 202.50 Ha. The mine falls in the North Godavari Mining Lease (Total lease area-637.52 Ha). Lease F. Mining Lease : renewal is obtained vide MoEF letter No. GoI (MoEF) F.No.8-5/1988-FC (pt), Dated: 04/02/2013. 14. R & R Involved : No R&R is involved. 2 B. Status of Implementation of MoEF conditions as on 30.09.2014 1. SPECIFIC CONDITIONS: Sl. Condition Compliance Status No. (i) Mining shall not be carried in forest land Forest land diversion for 202.50 Ha has been for which forestry clearance has not been obtained vide lr no: 8-26/2010-FC,Dt:13.07.2011. obtained under the provisions of FC Act, 1980 (ii) Adequate safety measures shall be All permissions required under CMR, 1957 have implemented for mining in areas where been obtained from DGMS. underground mining has been undertaken. Prior permission of the DGMS shall be taken to undertake opencast mining in areas where underground mining has been done. (iii) Topsoil shall be stacked properly with Top soil of quantity 2.00 L.cu.m is properly proper slope at earmarked site(s) and stacked in an area of 3.50 Ha at the earmarked shall not be kept active and shall be used place and remaining 3.96 L.Cu.m top soil for reclamation and development of green covered on 30m and 60m OB benches and also belt. for bund formation along the Quarry. (iv) OB shall be stacked at earmarked one Mining operations have commenced on external OB dumpsite of 264.26 ha within 20.12.2013. OB quantity of 18.00 M.cu.m is ML area and shall not exceed a maximum stacked in an extent of 55 Ha at earmarked height of 90m consisting of 3 benches of Dump yard-1. OB quantity of 5.42 M.cu.m is 30m each. Balance OB to be generated being stacked in an extent of 25 Ha at earmarked over the last 3 years of mine life shall be place, Dump yard –II. re-handled and backfilling into the quarry. The ultimate slope of the dump shall not Presently, OB dump has reached a maximum exceed 28º. Slope stability studies shall height of 60 m. OB dump is in the initial stages of be carried out and monitoring of the formation and dump management is being done stability of the dumps continuously as per the approved EMP. undertaken and particularly during monsoon and post monsoon seasons to ascertain its stability. Monitoring and management of existing reclaimed dumpsites shall be submitted to the Ministry of Environment & Forests and its regional office located at Bangalore on yearly basis. (v) Catch drains and siltation ponds of Catch drains and settling ponds of appropriate appropriate size shall be constructed to size are being constructed by considering arrest silt and sediment flows from soil, maximum rainfall. Garland drain (bottom width - OB and mineral dumps. The water so 2m, top width -5m, depth -2m) is made for a collected shall be utilized for watering the length of 5.60 km around quarry and also mine area, roads green belt development, external dump yard. etc. The drains shall be regularly desilted Rain water is being let out in to nallahs after and maintained properly. proper treatment at settling ponds, check dams. Garland drains of suitable size, gradient and length and sump capacity shall be Garland drain has been prepared for a length of designed keeping 50% safety margin over 3.6 km around the dump yard and two settling and above the peak sudden rainfall and ponds (capacity – 7500 cu.m of each) were maximum discharge in the area adjoining constructed. the mine site. Sump capacity shall also be provided for adequate retention period to allow proper settling of silt material. 3 S No Condition Compliance Status (vi) Dimension of the retaining wall at the toe It is proposed to construct Rock toe wall at toe of of the dumps and OB benches within the the dump for a length of 1.60km. mine to check run-off and siltation shall Dimensions of rock toe wall will be of bottom width be based on the rainfall data. 4m, height-2m and top width-1m. (vii) Crushers at the proposed CHP shall be Mist water spraying arrangement was made at operated with high efficiency bag filters, crusher and discharge points at CHP. water sprinkling system shall be provided to check fugitive emissions from crushing operations, conveyor system, haulage roads, and transfer points. (viii) Drills shall be wet operated only. Wet drilling is being practiced. (ix) Controlled blasting shall be practiced OB is being extracted by adopting control blasting only during day time with use of delay technique with non electrical delay detonators detonators. The mitigative measures for (NONELs) and also muffling of blast holes is control of ground vibrations and to arrest being done when blasting zone approaches the fly rocks and boulders shall be nearer to the village. Monitoring of ground implemented. vibrations during blasting is enclosed as Annexure – 8. (x) Afforestation shall cover a total area of Afforestation on OB dumps and green belt has not less than 532.37ha which includes been developed along mine boundary with native reclaimed external OB dump (264.26 species in an extent of 17.60 Ha. during rainy ha), reclaimed topsoil dump, backfilled season of 2014, in consultation with the Forest quarry area (31.46 ha from existing Officer and the density of trees have been project), backfilled quarry area from Ph-II maintained about 2500 Plants/ha. So far, RF land (235.32 ha) topsoil dump (1.33 ha), of 117 Ha has been planted with native species, along ML boundary, along roads and beyond mandate. Plantation has been done along along service buildings and CHP, within mine boundary, pit head CHP and also the lease by planting native species in surrounding office buildings etc., in an extent of consultation with the local 34 Ha during 2011. Avenue plantation is also DFO/Agriculture Department. The done for distance of about 12.00KM along density of the trees shall be around approach roads of RKOCP, CHP, RKP and 2500 plants per ha. internal roads of RKP Colony. So that total plantation has been done in an extant of 168.60 Ha including non mandatory under this project till now.