Sponsor : Reliance Jamnagar Infrastructure Limited Consolidated EIA document with Clarifications & Additional information Provided to the MoEF, New Delhi October 2009 Contents Index No. Title Page No. Executive Summary (I- XVIII) List of Plates viii List of Figures ix List of Tables xii List of Annexure xvi 1.0 Introduction 1.1 Preamble 1.1 1.2 Project Setting 1.3 1.2.1 Existing industrial Estate in Jamnagar District 1.4 1.2.2 Common facilities for the SEZ 1.10 1.2.2.1 Captive Power Plant (CPP) 1.10 1.2.2.2 Desalination Plant 1.10 1.2.2.3 Central Effluent Treatment Plant 1.11 1.2.2.4 Common Incinerator Facility 1.11 1.2.2.5 Common Secured Landfill Facility 1.11 1.2.3 Project Cost and Schedule 1.12 1.3 Stage of EIA 1.12 1.4 Scope of EIA 1.12 1.5 Objectives 1.13 1.6 Study Area 1.14 1. 7 Approaches and Methodology 1.14 1.7.1 Establishing Baseline Environmental Status 1.14 1.7.1.1 Physical Resources 1.14 1.7.1.2 Ecological Resources 1.17 1.7.1.3 Economic Development 1.18 1.7.2 Anticipated Environmental Impacts 1.19 1.7.3 Environmental Management Plan 1.19 1.8 Contents of the Report 1.20 1.9 Environmental Clearance Process 1.21 2.0 Description of the Project 2.1 Indian SEZ Policy 2.1 2.1.1 Some of the Key benefits of an SEZ are as follows: 2.1 2.1.2 SEZs and Labour Laws 2.2 2.1.3 Emerging Domestic SEZ's in Gujarat 2.3 2.1.4 Gujarat State SEZ Policy 2.3 2.2 The National Economy 2.5 i Index No. Title Page No. 2.3 The State Economy 2.7 2.3.1 Economic Growth of Gujarat 2.8 2.3.2 Sectoral growth 2.8 2.3.3 Industrial Development in Gujarat 2.8 2.4 Location & Connectivity 2.10 2.4.1 Scale (Size - Scalability) 2.11 2.4.2 Port Operations 2.11 2.5 Regional Attributes of Jamnagar 2.12 2.6 The Development Plan 2.12 2.6.1 Targeted Industrial Components 2.13 2.6.2 The Housing 2.15 2.6.3 Building Social Health 2.16 2.7 Infrastructure Facilities 2.16 2.7.1 Water Supply 2.16 2.7.1.1 Sources of Supply: 2.17 2.7.2 Power 2.19 3.0 Process Description 3.1 Introduction 3.1 3.2 C1 based Units 3.3 3.2.1 Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle(Petcoke Gasification) 3.3 3.2.2 Methanol 3.7 3.2.3 Acetic Acid 3.7 3.2.4 Vinyl Acetate Monomer 3.9 3.2.5 Poly Vinyl Acetate 3.10 3.2.6 Poly Vinyl Alcohol 3.11 3.3 C2 Based Units 3.12 3.3.1 Multifeed Steam Cracker 3.12 3.3.2 Monoethylene glycol (MEG)/Diethylene Glycol (DEG) and Triethylene Glycol (TEG) 3.16 3.3.3 Polyethylene (LDPE/LLDPE) 3.17 3.4 C3 Based Units 3.18 3.4.1 Acrylic acid 3.18 3.4.2 Super Absorbent Polymer (SAP) 3.19 3.4.3 2-Ethyl Hexanol 3.20 3.4.4 n-butyraldehyde 3.22 3.4.5 n-Butyl Acrylate 3.23 ii Index No. Title Page No. 3.4.6 n-Butanol 3.24 3.4.7 Propylene Oxide 3.25 3.4.8 Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) 3.28 3.4.9 Polypropylene (PP) 3.31 3.5 C4/C5 Based Units 3.31 3.5.1 Butyl /Halo Butyl Rubber 3.31 3.5.2 E-SBR Project 3.34 3.5.3 Maleic anhydride 3.35 3.6 C6/C7/C8 based Units 3.36 3.6.1 Mono Nitro Benzene 3.36 3.6.2 Aniline 3.37 3.6.3 Methylene Di Aniline 3.38 3.6.4 Phosgene 3.39 3.6.5 Methylene Diphenyl Diisocyanate 3.40 3.6.6 Styrene 3.41 3.6.7 Paraxylene and Orthoxylene 3.43 3.6.8 Purified terepthalic acid (PTA) 3.44 3.6.9 Polyester/ Polyethylene Tere-phthalate (PET) 3.45 3.6.10 PSF - Process Description 3.47 3.6.11 Staple Fibre Production 3.49 3.6.12 Downstream Process 3.51 3.6.13 POY Process 3.54 3.7 Carbon Black 3.55 3.8 Lube Oil Cum Refinery Complex 3.56 3.9 Captive Power Plant 3.58 3.10 Desal Plant 3.59 3.11 JERP Refinery 3.62 3.12 Product, Process and Utility Integration 3.64 4.0 Baseline Environmental Status 4.1 Air Environment 4.2 4.1.1 Design of Network for Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Locations 4.2 4.1.2 Reconnaissance 4.2 4.1.3 Ambient Air Quality Monitoring 4.3 4.1.4 Instruments used for Analysis 4.3 4.1.5 Micrometeorology 4.4 4.1.5.1 Mixing Height/Inversion Study 4.4 4.1.6 Existing Ambient Air Quality Status 4.5 4.1.7 Ambient Air Quality Concentrations vis-à-vis Stipulated Standards 4.8 _____________________________________________________________________ iii Index No. Title Page No. 4.2 Noise Environment 4.41 4.2.1 Reconnaissance 4.41 4.2.2 Background Noise 4.41 4.2.2.1 Noise Levels in Residential and Commercial Areas 4.42 4.2.2.2 Noise Levels in Industrial Areas 4.42 4.2.2.3 Noise Levels in Silence Zone 4.42 4.2.3 Traffic Study 4.43 4.3 Water Environment 4.47 4.3.1 Reconnaissance 4.47 4.3.2 Baseline Data 4.47 4.3.2.1 Surface Water Resources 4.47 4.3.2.2 Methodology for Water Quality Assessment 4.48 4.3.2.3 Surface Water Quality 4.48 4.3.2.4 Groundwater Resources 4.49 4.3.2.5 Ground Water Quality 4.50 4.3.3 Bacteriological Characteristics 4.50 4.3.4 Biological Characteristics 4.50 4.4 Land Environment 4.64 4.4.1 Reconnaissance 4.64 4.4.2 Geology at Project Site 4.64 4.4.3 Baseline Status 4.65 4.4.3.1 Physical Characteristics of Soil 4.65 4.4.3.2 Chemical Characteristics 4.65 4.4.4 Soil Microbiology 4.67 4.4.5 Landuse Pattern 4.67 4.4.6 Remote Sensing Studies for Land use Analysis 4.67 4.5 Biological Environment 4.93 4.5.1 Introduction 4.93 4.5.2 Study Area 4.94 4.5.3 Survey Methodology 4.94 4.5.4 Vegetation Biodiversity in Study Area 4.95 _____________________________________________________________________ iv Index No. Title Page No. 4.5.5 Floristic Structure and Composition 4.96 4.5.5.1 Floristic Characteristic within 15 km radius from the Proposed Project Site 4.96 4.5.5.2 Floristic Characteristic within 15-25 km radius from the Proposed Project Site 4.97 4.5.6 Medicinal Plants in Study Area 4.98 4.5.7 Social Forestry 4.98 4.5.8 Reserved Forest 4.99 4.5.9 Threatened Plant Species 4.99 4.5.10 Agriculture 4.99 4.5.10.1 Agroclimatic Condition of Study Area 4.100 4.5.11 Assessment of Wildlife and Avifauna 4.100 4.5.11.1 Faunal Diversity 4.100 4.5.11.2 Avifauna 4.100 4.5.11.3 Rare, Endangered and Vulnerable Faunal Species 4.101 4.5.12 Fishery 4.101 4.6 Socio-Economic Environment 4.123 4.6.1 Reconnaissance 4.123 4.6.2 Baseline Status 4.123 4.6.2.1 Demographic Structure 4.124 4.6.2.2 Infrastructure Resource Base 4.124 4.6.2.3 Economic Attributes 4.125 4.6.2.4 Health Status 4.126 4.6.2.5 Cultural and Aesthetic Attributes 4.126 4.6.3 Socio-economic Survey 4.126 4.6.4 Awareness and Opinion of the People about the Project 4.128 4.6.5 Quality of Life 4.128 5.0 Identification and Prediction of Environmental Impacts 5.1 Impacts During Construction Phase 5.3 5.1.1 Air Environment 5.4 5.1.2 Noise Environment 5.5 5.1.3 Water Environment 5.5 5.1.4 Land Environment 5.6 5.1.5 Biological Environment 5.6 5.1.6 Socio-economic Environment 5.7 5.1.7 Impacts on Health & Safety 5.7 v Index No. Title Page No. 5.2 Impacts during Operation Phase 5.11 5.2.1 Air Environment 5.11 5.2.1.1 Air Pollutant Emissions 5.11 5.2.1.2 Micro-Meteorology 5.12 5.2.1.3 Air Quality Modeling 5.12 5.2.2 Noise Environment 5.28 5.2.2.1 Impacts due to Stationary Noise Source 5.28 5.2.3 Water Environment 5.32 5.2.3.1 Water requirement 5.32 5.2.4 Land Environment 5.34 5.2.4.1 Land use Pattern 5.34 5.2.5 Biological Environment 5.34 5.2.6 Socio-economic Environment 5.34 5.3 Pollution Load 5.39 5.4 Public Consulation Summary 5.39 6.0 Environmental Management Plan 6.1 EMP during Construction Phase 6.3 6.1.1 Site Preparation 6.3 6.1.2 Air Environment 6.3 6.1.3 Noise Environment 6.5 6.1.4 Water Environment 6.5 6.1.5 Land Environment 6.7 6.1.6 Biological Environment 6.8 6.1.7 Socio-economic Environment 6.9 6.1.8 Energy and Water Use 6.10 6.2 Environmental Management Plan during Operational Phase 6.10 6.2.1 Air Environment 6.11 6.2.2 Noise Environment 6.16 6.2.3 Water Environment 6.17 vi Index No.