ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT & ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE AS PER EIA NOTIFICATION, 2006 PAUNI II EXPANSION OC (PHASE-I) Ballarpur Area, WCL for Expansion in Production Capacityfrom 0.60 MTPAto3.25 MTPA & Expansion in Land Area from 316.30 Ha to 1095.52 ha in Phase-I (PREPARED AS PER TOR J-11015/80/2016.IA-II (M) dated 30.03.2017) December- 2018 Prepared by CENTRAL MINE PLANNING AND DESIGN INSTITUTE LIMITED (Acceditated by NABET vide No/EIA/01/12/002 Dt.31.01.2012) CMPDI/EIA/WCL/2018-19/DEC/88/01 Submission CMPDI SUBMISSION Background of Project The Project Report of Pauni-II OC mine was approved by WCL Board in November, 2003 for 0.60 MTPA target capacity. The Project was accorded environmental clearance for 0.60 MTPA in a Mine lease area of 316.30 ha by MoEF & CC vide its letter no. J-11015/71/2005 – IA.II (M) dated 02/02/2006. The land acquisition for the project was delayed due to increase in land cost. Considering the increased land cost by Maharashtra Govt. & new R&R policy of CIL of 2012, the complete land area of 316.30 ha was acquired in 2015-16. The Pauni-II OC mine started working from April, 2016. Revalidation of EC dated 02.02.2006 As per MoEF&CC OM dated 06.04.2018, all projects granted environmental clearance in accordance with the EIA Notification, 1994, have to seek revalidation of existing EC in accordance with the EIA Notification, 2006. The existing project of Pauni-II OC has been grantd EC under the provisions of EIA Notification, 1994. For revalidation of existing EC, the application as per MoEF&CC OM dated 06.04.2018 was uploaded on MoEF & CC portal on 11-06-2018. The application was deliberated in 36th EAC meeting held on 31-08-2018. The EAC, after detailed deliberations, desired for additional information. The details and compliance of EAC’s deliberation are given below: S. Addditional Information Compliance by PP No. desired by EAC 1 Public notice to be Public Notice in respect of of Pauni-II OC has been issued in leading published in 1 national (Business standard) on newspapers (one 04.10.2018 & in 2 local newspaper (Mahavidarbha Hindi national and two local) & Marathi) on 05-10-18 for inviting comments about the for information of the project and present coal mining operations of capacity stakeholders about the 0.60 MTPA in mine lease area of 316.30 ha from the project and present coal state holders. mining operations of capacity 0.60 MTPA in mine lease area of 316.30 ha, inviting comments and their redressal, Pauni II Expansion OC Submission CMPDI 2 Valid Mining Plan and The approval of WCL Board for PR of Pauni-II OC mine the Mine Closure Plan for capacity of 0.60 MTPA was secured vide resolution duly approved by the no. WCL/BD/SECTT/BM-179/2003/3043 dtd competent authority 21.11.2003withcapital investment of 28.112 crores. 3 Compliance status of Inspection by RO, MoEF&CC done on 24.09.2018. the conditions Compliance certificate is secured vide letter no 3- stipulated in the 10/2006(env)/4731 dated 02-01-2019. environmental clearance dated 2nd February, 2006 from the Regional Office at Nagpur, 4 Consent to operate Consent to Operate (CTO) for Pauni II OC of 0.60 from the State Pollution MTPA production capacity was valid up to 31.01.2018. Control Board for the Application for renewal of CTO has been made to present mining MPCB on dtd 04.01.2018. operations. 5 Redressal of issues Public hearing was conducted on 06.11.2004 raised during the last Sl.No Issue raised Status of complaince public hearing conducted by the SPCB 1 To divert mine Excess mine water from on 6th November, 2004. discharge to sedimentation tank after village lake for proper treatment is being effective utilization supplied to pond at of mine water Sakhari village. This helps the villagers as well as help in augmenting the ground water resources. 2 Problems due to People will not have to diversion of travel across the mine as existing road an alternate road route Rajura-Sakhri, has been provided by the people will have to mine management. As on cross the mine for date, NOC for diversion travelling of Sakhri- Chincholi road has been obtained from respective Gram panchayat. 3 Dead space to be Dead space between OB kept between the dump and nallah is 60m. overburden dump Dead space between top and nallah bank to soil dump and nallah is prevent 90 m obstruction to nallah flow due to dump slides Pauni II Expansion OC Submission CMPDI 4 Preventive Garland drain along the measures to be periphery of OB dump is taken for OB provided dump slides, Length- 4367 m provision of garland drain Desilting of 15118 m3 parallel to toe of (2018-19) is done before the dumps to monsoon collect surface water to avoid obstruction to natural flow of nallah 5 Plantation along Plantation activity is part periphery as a of the mining activity. curtain plantation 25000 nos of plantation is approx. 10.0 ha on plain land near external OB dump has been carried out in Jul’17. Plantation with five years maintenance contract has been executed through MPRVVN. The density of plantation is 2500 plants/Ha. The type of species planted are amla,neem karanj etc. 6 Carrying out Deepening of pond area community and beautification of development Sakri village under CSR works as per in FY 2017-18 for 18.297 demand of lakhs is done villagers 7 Representation of The alternate route villagers stating planned for diversion of that due to takes care of the larger diversion of nallah interest of population, farmers will have striving to satisfy the problems to maximum populace. access their fields and demanded either to provide alternate access or acquire their lands Pauni II Expansion OC Submission CMPDI 8 Necessary Details of air pollution precautions to measures are given control the below: pollution due to Two nos. of hired mobile mining activities water tankers of such as coal capacities 20 KL and 4 transportation, KL are in operation for coal stocking, coal dust suppression purpose handling etc. Work of installation of fixed water sprinklers (10 nos.) at coal stock yard is in progress Coal transportation trucks are optimally loaded and are covered with tarpaulin Mining started from April’16 in Pauni-II OC. Coal 6 Coal production production started from October, 2016. realized from the mine from 1994-95 vis-à-vis Year EC Actual Excess production capacity stipulated in sanctioned production beyond the the environment capacity (MTPA) EC sanctioned clearance dated 2nd (MTPA) capacity February, 2006 and 2016-17 0.60 0.510 Nil 2017-18 0.60 0.306 Nil CTO granted by the MPCB. 7 Details of court cases There are no court cases pertaining to environmental and the compliance aspects against Pauni II OC. status. Expansion Proposal A fresh project report titled “Amalgamated Pauni-II & III OC” was prepared considering the adjacent geological block named “Area west of Pauni Extn. Block” for excavation. The proposed project has been named as Pauni-II Expansion OC Mine. The mine has been planned to operate with two independent quarries (Quarry-I & Quarry-II) with use of common infrastructure facilities. This has been done to enhance the production capacity of mine from 0.60 MTPA to 3.25 MTPA with increase in project area from 316.30 ha to 1152.66 ha. The total additional capital of the project is Rs. 483.6948 crores (excluding existing capital of Rs. 15.3094 crores). This project report for Amalgamated Pauni- II & III OC was approved by WCL Board in its 266th meeting held on 20/06/2015. Pauni II Expansion OC Submission CMPDI The name of project has thereafter been changed to Pauni-II OC Expansion by WCL Board in its 281st meeting held on 19/09/2016. Accordingly the Form-I application for obtaining ToR for preparation of EIA-EMP report was submitted on 10.10.2016 on MoEF&CC portal. The project was discussed in EAC meeting held on 27th - 28th February, 2017 and ToR was granted vide MoEF&CC ref no J-11015/80/2016.IA-II (M) dated 30.03.2017. On the basis of ToR granted by MoEF&CC, Draft EIA-EMP report was prepared in June, 2017 and submitted it to Maharashtra Pollution Control Board for conducting public hearing. Public Hearing was conducted successfully by MPCB on 01.12.2018 under the chairmanship of ADM, Chandrapur at Manoranjan Kendra, Sasti colony, Near CGM office, WCL Ballarpur Area, Tahsil Rajura, District Chandrapur. The minutes of Public hearing has been issued by MPCB vide its letter no MPCB/SROC/2503/2018 dated 17th December, 2018. The public hearing was conducted as per ToR for increase in production capapcity fron 0.60 MTPA to 3.25 MTPA and ML area from 316.30 ha to 1152.66 ha. The ML area of expansion proposal included forest land of 12.70 ha. Status of Forestry Clearance Proposal for diversion of 12.07 Ha Forest land forwarded to Mantralaya, Mumbai recommendation of APCCF/NO, Nagpur on 15th December, 2015 vide letter No. Desk- 17/NC/I/I.D/1715/15-16. Proposal is held up due to non-compliance of NOC under FRA 2006. Gram Sabha meeting held on 15th Aug, 2017. Consent of Gram Sabha obtained on 20th August 2017 and submitted to SDO on 21st August 2017.