1 Minutes of the 36th Meeting of the Expert Appraisal Committee ...

covered with GI sheets. Covered sheds for storage of raw materials and fully covered conveyersfor transportation of materials shall be provided besides coal, cement, fly ash and clinker shall bestored in silos. Pneumatic system shall be used for fly ash handling.v. Asphalting/concreting of roads and water spray all around the stockyard and loading/unloadingareas in the cement plant shall be carried out to control fugitive emissions. Regular watersprinkling shall be carried out in critical areas prone to air pollution and having high levels of SPMand RSPM such as haul road, loading and unloading points, transfer points and other vulnerableareas. It shall be ensured that the ambient air quality parameters conform to the normsprescribed by the Central Pollution Control Board in this regard.vi.vii.viii.ix.Efforts shall be made to reduce impact of the transport of the raw materials and end products onthe surrounding environment including agricultural land. All the raw materials including fly ashshould be transported in the closed containers only and should not be overloaded. Vehicularemissions should be regularly monitored.Total water requirement for the cement plant shall not exceed 7 m 3 /day and necessarypermission for the drawl shall be obtained. All the treated wastewater should be recycled andreused in the process and/or for dust suppression and green belt development and other plantrelated activities etc. No process wastewater shall be discharged outside the factory premisesand ‘zero’ discharge should be adopted.Efforts shall be made to make use of rain water harvested. If needed, capacity of the reservoirshall be enhanced to meet the maximum water requirement. Only balance water requirementshall be met from other sources.All the bag filter dust, raw meal dust, coal dust, clinker dust and cement dust from pollutioncontrol devices should be recycled and reused in the process used for cement manufacturing.Spent oil and batteries should be sold to authorized recyclers / reprocessors only.x. Green belt shall be developed in at least 33 % area in and around the cement plant as per theCPCB guidelines to mitigate the effects of air emissions in consultation with local DFO.xi.At least 5 % of the total cost of the project shall be earmarked towards the Enterprise SocialCommitment based on locals need and item-wise details along with time bound action planshould be prepared and submitted to the Ministry’s Regional Office at Lucknow. Implementationof such program should be ensured accordingly in a time bound manner.36.2.8 Expansion of Integrated Steel Plant from 0.067 to 0.378 MTPA at Unit-II Budhakota, Biringatoli,District Sundergarh in Orissa by M/s Scan Steels Limited- regarding EnvironmentalClearanceThe above proposal was accorded ToRs on 8.8.2008 and public hearing was exempted underSection 7 (ii) of EIA Notification, 2006. Accordingly, the proposal was considered for environmentalclearance by the EAC (Industry-1) in its 5 th Meeting held during 24 th -25 th November, 2009. Thecommittee recommended the proposal for public hearing/consultation keeping the latest circulars of theMoEF for public hearing exemption under section 7 (ii) of the EIA Notification, 2006. Public Hearing wasconducted on 6 th May 2011 and the final EIA/EMP report was submitted to MoEF.The project proponent and their environmental consultant, M/s Sun Consultancy and Services,Bhubaneswar gave a detailed presentation on the salient features of the project and proposedenvironmental protection and mitigation measures to be undertaken as per the prescribed Terms ofReference. The Integrated Steel Plants are listed at S. No. 3(a) in Primary Metallurgy Industry underCategory A of the Schedule of EIA Notification 2006 and appraised by the Expert Appraisal Committee(Industry-1) of MoEF.M/s Scan Steels Limited have proposed for expansion of Integrated Steel Plant from 0.067 to0.378 MTPA at Unit-II, Budhakata, Biringatoli, District Sundergarh in Orissa. The total land requirement16