F. No.
J-11011/192/2008- IA II (I)
Government of
Ministry of Environment and Forests
(I.A. Division)
Paryavaran Bhawan
CGO Complex,
E-mail : pb.rastogi@nic.in
Telefax : 011: 2436 7668
Dated 13th July, 2009
To,
The Senior General Manager
M/s Sree Metaliks Ltd.
N-4/46, IRC Village, Nayapali
Bhubaneshwar
? 751015, Orissa.
E-mail : smlbbsr@sreemetaliks.com /smlkjr@sreemetaliks.com ; Fax No. ??
;
Subject : Integrated Steel Plant (0.5 MTPA) at Village
Anra, P.O. Upara, Raigoda, P.S. Nayakote, District Keonjhar, Orissa by M/s Sree Metaliks Ltd. ?
Environment clearance reg.
Ref.
: Your letter no. SML/ISP/07-08
dated 19th February, 2008.
Sir,
This has
reference to your letter no. SML/ISP/07-08 dated 19th February, 2008
alongwith Application in Form I, Pre-feasibility Report, draft ?Terms of
References? and EIA/EMP report alongwith public hearing/public consultation
report as per the EIA Notification, 2006 and related project documents and subsequent
clarification furnished by you vide your letter dated 9th April,
2009 for environmental clearance on the above mentioned project.
2.0 The Ministry of
Environment and Forests has examined the application. It is noted proposal is
for the Integrated Steel Plant (0.5 MTPA) at Village Anra, P.O. Upara, Raigoda,
P.S. Nayakote, District Keonjhar, Orissa by M/s Sree Metaliks Ltd. Out of total
|
Manufacturing
facilities |
Plant
configuration |
Total Production
|
|
DRI |
3x500
TPD |
4,50,000
TPA |
|
MBF Pig
Iron |
1x380
CUM |
380 CUM |
|
Sinter
Plant |
1x36 m2 |
4,15,758
MTPA |
|
|
2x6,00,000
TPA |
12,00,000
TPA |
|
SMS
(Mild Steel) |
1,60,000
TPA (IF-4x15
T + CCM-1x2 strand) 3,40,000
TPA (EAF-1x70
T+LRF-1x70 T+CCM-1x4 strand) |
5,00,000
TPA |
|
Coal
Washery |
1x150
TPH |
150 TPH |
|
|
10,00,000
TPA |
10,00,000
TPA |
|
Captive
Power Plant
WHRB
FBB |
30 MW 20 MW |
50 MW |
3.0 Sponge Iron (1,40,000 TPA), Pig Iron (9,500 TPA), Billets
(5,00,000 TPA), Pellets (12,00,000 TPA), Middlings (3,06,000 TPA), Beneficiated
Iron Ore (10,00,000 TPA) will be manufactured from proposed units. The Steel
manufacturing process will be via Sponge Iron ? Mini Blast Furnace (MBF) ?
Induction Furnace (IF) ? Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) ? Continuous Caster (CCM),
Ladle refining furance (LRF) route alongwith iron ore palletisation plant and
iron ore beneficiation plant. DRI route
of steel making will reduce total dependence on imported coke via BF. Energy will be saved due to use of EAF route
by mixing the DRI and hot metal in 60:40 ratio enhancing production capacity of
BF to double. A coal washery is proposed
to get coal with less ash. Iron ore palletization plant and beneficiation plant
will be installed to minimize the losses of iron ore fines and utilization of
low-grade iron ore in BF after beneficiation. Agglomeration technology will be
used for sintering and palletizing.
4.0 Electrostatic
precipitator (ESP), dust settling chamber (DSC), after burning chamber (ABC),
gas cleaning plant (GCP) having dust catcher, venturi scrubber, fume extraction
system with bag filters, dust extraction system etc. will be provided to
control particulate emissions below 100 mg/Nm3. Cleaned BF gas will
be used as fuel in blast furnace. Total make-up water requirement from River
Baitarani and deep bore wells will be 857 m3/hr. Ground water
clearance is obtained from CGWA vide letter no. 21-4 (71)/SER/CGWA/2008/035
dated 22nd September, 2008. All the treated wastewater will be used
for dust suppression, green belt, ash moistening and fire fighting within the
plant. ?Zero? discharge will be adopted and no effluent will be discharged
outside the plant boundary. Bag filter dust from pellet plant will be recycled
in the process. Iron ore fines and coal fines from DRI plant, SMS will be
recycled to the sinter plant. Slag from IF, EAF and LRF will be recycled
through sinter/blast furnace. The coal char, coal fines and middlings from the
coal washery will be used in FBB for generation of power. ESP dust, bag filter dust, kiln accretions
and wet scrapper dust will be used in environment-friendly manner. Fly ash and
granulated BF slag will be used for cement manufacturing. Tailings from Iron
ore beneficiation plant will be disposed off in tailing ponds. Usable scrap
from BF and SMS will be recycled back.
5.0 Public
Hearing / Public Consultation meeting was held on 20th
February, 2009.
6.0. The Ministry of Environment and Forests
hereby accords environmental clearance to the above project under the
provisions of EIA Notification dated 14th September, 2006 subject to
compliance of the following specific and general conditions :
A. SPECIFIC CONDITIONS :
i)
Efforts shall be made to reduce RSPM levels in the ambient
air and a time bound action plan shall be submitted. On-line ambient air quality monitoring and continuous stack monitoring
facilities for all the stacks and sufficient air pollution control devices
shall be provided to keep the emission levels below 100 mg/Nm3. At no time, the emission
level shall go beyond the prescribed standards. Interlocking facilities shall
be provided so that process can be automatically stopped in case emission level
exceeds the limit.
ii)
Hot gases from DRI kiln shall be passed through Dust
Settling Chamber (DSC) to remove coarse solids and After Burning Chamber (ABC)
to burn CO completely and used in waste heat recovery boiler (WHRB). The gas then shall be cleaned in ESP before
leaving out into the atmosphere through ID fan and stack. Electrostatic precipitator
(ESP) shall be provided to DRI plant, WHRB and FBB boilers to control air
emissions within 100 mg/Nm3. Bag house shall be provided to BF?Dry
gas cleaning system. Gas cleaning plant
having dust catcher and ventury scrubber shall be provided to blast furnace
(BF). Cleaned gas from blast furnace shall be used as fuel in blast furnace.
iii)
Electrostatic precipitator (ESP) and bag filters shall be
provided to sinter plant. Dust extraction system comprising of ESP and
multi-cyclones shall be provided to pellet plant. Fume extraction system with
bag filters shall be provided to induction furnace and ladle refining furnace.
Bag filters shall also be provided at coke and flux grinding systems. Fume
extraction system followed by a stack shall be provided to continuous casting
machine. Dust extraction system comprising of ESP and multi-cyclones shall be
provided to pellet plant. ESP and bag filters shall be provided to sinter
plant.
iv)
In-plant control
measures for checking fugitive emissions from all the vulnerable sources shall
be provided. Fugitive dust emission from raw material and product handling
section shall be controlled by dust extraction systems with bag filters or by
water sprinkling. Dust extraction system with bag filters shall be provided at
all the material transfer points. Dust suppression system with water sprinklers
shall be provided at raw material stock piles and loading/unloading points.
Dust extraction system shall be provided at cooling discharge house, product
separation unit. Water
sprinkling system and dust extraction system shall be provided at raw material
sizing and handling areas. All conveyors shall be completely covered by
GI sheets. Bag filters and dust
suppression system shall be provided at coal crushing and handling areas.
v)
Gaseous emission levels including secondary fugitive
emissions from blast furnace and sinter plant shall be controlled within the
latest permissible limits issued by the Ministry and regularly monitored.
Guidelines / Code of Practice issued by the CPCB shall be followed. The
emission standards issued by the Ministry in May, 2008 for the sponge plants
shall be followed.
vi)
Vehicular pollution due to transportation of raw material
and finished product shall be controlled.
Proper arrangements should also be made to control dust emissions during
loading and unloading of the raw material and finished product.
vii)
Total water
requirement from Baitarni River and bore wells shall not exceed 857 m3/hr.
Ground water requirement shall not exceed the limit stipulated by the CGWA vide
letter no. 21-4 (71)/SER/CGWA/2008/035 dated 22nd September, 2008. Closed circuit re-circulation system shall be installed to reduce
fresh water consumption and no wastewater generation. BF-GCP and coal washery water shall be treated in thickener
and used in the pig casting machine. Acidic and alkaline effluent from DM water
plant shall be neutralized and reused for dust suppression and gardening
etc. All the wastewater from coal
washery (belt press), MBF (ventury scrubber), Power Plant (cooling tower and
boiler blow down) and back wash of filtration unit of Water Treatment Plant
shall be treated in Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) and recycled/reused
for various activities at the site including dust suppression, green belt, ash
moistening and fire fighting etc. No wastewater shall be discharged outside the
premises and ?Zero? effluent discharge shall be ensured. Domestic effluent shall be treated in septic tank followed by
soak pit and used for green belt development.
viii)
Prior
permission for the drawl of 857 m3/hr water from Baitarni River
shall be obtained from the concerned department and a copy submitted to the
Ministr?s Regional Office at Bhubaneswar within 3 months of issue of the
environment clearance.
ix)
The water
consumption should not exceed 16 m3/Ton of Steel as per prescribed
standard.
x)
Ground water
monitoring around the solid waste disposal site / secured landfill (SLF) shall
be carried out regularly and report submitted to the Ministry?s Regional Office
at Bhubaneswar, CPCB and OPCB.
xi)
Iron ore
fines, DRI fines, coal fines, sinter dust, GCP dust, SMS dust etc. shall be
used in sinter plant. Bag filter dust from pellet plant shall be recycled in
the process. Usable scrap from BF and SMS shall be recycled back in the SMS.
Slag from IF, EAF and LRF shall be recycled through sinter/blast furnace.
Tailings from Iron ore beneficiation plant shall be disposed off in tailing
ponds. All the other solid wastes including broken refractory mass shall be
properly disposed off in environment-friendly manner. Used oil and oily waste
shall be provided to authorized recyclers / reprocessors.
xii)
Fluidized Bed
Boiler (FBB) shall be installed before installation of sponge iron plant so
that utilization of char in the FBB boiler is ensured. All the char from DRI plant, middlings and
rejects from the coal washery shall be utilized in the FBB boiler of power
plant and no char shall be disposed off anywhere else. All the blast furnace
(BF) slag shall be granulated and provided to cement manufacturers for further
utilization. ESP dust, bag filter dust, wet scrapper dust, kiln accretions, SMS
slag shall be properly utilized or disposed off in
environment-friendly manner.
xiii)
All the slag
shall be used for road making and construction purpose only after passing
through Toxic Chemical Leachability Potential (TCLP) test. Otherwise, slag
shall be disposed in secured landfill as per CPCB guidelines.
xiv)
Proper
handling, storage, utilization and disposal of all the solid waste shall be
ensured and regular report regarding toxic metal content in the waste material
and its composition, end use of solid/hazardous waste shall be submitted to the
Ministry?s Regional Office at Bhubaneswar, CPCB and OPCB.
xv)
A time bound
action plan shall be submitted to reduce solid waste, its proper utilization
and disposal.
xvi)
Proper utilization
of fly ash shall be ensured as per Fly Ash Notification, 1999 and subsequent
amendment in 2003. All the fly ash and granulated slag shall be provided to
cement and brick manufacturers for further utilization and ?Memorandum of
Understanding? shall be submitted to the Ministry?s Regional Office at
Bhubaneswar within 3 months of issue of this letter.
xvii)
As proposed,
green belt shall be developed in 33 % area in and around the
plant as per the CPCB guidelines in consultation with DFO.
xviii)
All the
recommendations made in the Charter on Corporate Responsibility for Environment
Protection (CREP) for the Steel Sector shall be implemented.
xix)
All the
commitments made to the public during the Public Hearing / Public Consultation
meeting held on 20th February, 2009 shall be satisfactorily
implemented.
xx)
Recommendations
of the State Forest Department shall be obtained regarding likely impact of the
proposed steel plant on the surrounding reserve/protected forests viz. Nayagarh RF (
xxi)
The company shall provide housing for
construction labour within the site with all necessary infrastructure and
facilities such as fuel for cooking, mobile toilets, mobile STP, safe drinking
water, medical health care, crèche etc. The housing may be in the form of
temporary structures to be removed after the completion of the project.
B. GENERAL CONDITIONS:
i.
The project authorities must strictly
adhere to the stipulations made by the Orissa Pollution Control Board (OPCB)
and the State Government.
ii.
No further expansion or modifications
in the plant shall be carried out without prior approval of the Ministry of
Environment and Forests.
iii.
The gaseous emissions from various
process units shall conform to the load/mass based standards notified by this
Ministry on 19th May, 1993 and standards prescribed from time to
time. The Orissa Pollution Control Board (OPCB) may specify more stringent
standards for the relevant parameters keeping in view the nature of the
industry and its size and location.
iv.
At least four ambient air quality monitoring
stations shall be established in the downward direction as well as where
maximum ground level concentration of SPM, SO2 and NOX
are anticipated in consultation with the OPCB. Data on ambient air quality and
stack emission shall be regularly submitted to this Ministry including its
Regional Office at Bhubaneswar and OPCB, CPCB once in six months.
v.
In-plant control measures for checking
fugitive emissions from all the vulnerable sources shall be provided. Further,
specific measures like water sprinkling around
the coal stockpiles and asphalting or concreting of the roads
shall be done to control fugitive emissions.
vi.
Industrial wastewater shall be properly
collected, treated so as to conform to the standards prescribed under GSR 422
(E) dated 19th May, 1993 and 31st December, 1993 or as
amended form time to time. The treated wastewater shall be utilized for
plantation purpose.
vii.
The overall noise levels in and around
the plant area shall be kept well within the standards (85 dBA) by providing
noise control measures including acoustic hoods, silencers, enclosures etc. on
all sources of noise generation. The
ambient noise levels shall conform to the standards prescribed under EPA Rules,
1989 viz. 75 dBA (day time) and 70 dBA (night time).
viii.
Occupational health surveillance of the
workers shall be done on a regular basis and records maintained as per the
Factories Act.
ix.
The company shall develop rain water
harvesting structures to harvest the rain water for utilization in the lean
season besides recharging the ground water table.
x.
The project proponent shall also comply
with all the environmental protection measures and safeguards recommended in
the EIA / EMP report. Further, the company must undertake socio-economic
development activities in the surrounding villages like community development
programmes, educational programmes, drinking water supply and health care etc.
Suggestions made during the public hearing shall be implemented.
xi.
As proposed, Rs. 1401.05 Lakhs and Rs.
753.64 Lakhs shall be earmarked towards total capital cost and recurring
cost/annum for environmental pollution control measures shall be judiciously
utilized to implement the conditions stipulated by the Ministry of Environment
and Forests as well as the State Government.
The funds so provided shall not be diverted for any other purpose.
xii.
The Regional Office of this Ministry at
Bhubaneswar / CPCB / OPCB shall monitor the stipulated conditions. A six monthly compliance report and the
monitored data alongwith statistical interpretation shall be submitted to them
regularly.
xiii.
The Project Proponent shall inform the
public that the project has been accorded environmental clearance by the
Ministry and copies of the clearance letter are available with the OPCB and may
also be seen at Website of the Ministry of Environment and Forests at
http:/envfor.nic.in. This shall be advertised within seven days from the date
of issue of the clearance letter, at least in two local newspapers that are
widely circulated in the region of which one shall be in the vernacular
language of the locality concerned and a copy of the same shall be forwarded to
the Regional office at Bhubaneswar.
xiv.
Project authorities shall inform the
Regional Office as well as the Ministry, the date of financial closure and
final approval of the project by the concerned authorities and the date of
commencing the land development work.
xv.
A copy of clearance letter shall be
sent by the proponent to concerned Panchayat, Zila Parishad / Municipal
Corporation, Urban Local Body and the local NGO, if any, from whom suggestions
/ representations, if any, were received while processing the proposal. The
clearance letter shall also be put on the web site of the company by the
proponent.
xvi.
The project proponent shall upload the
status of compliance of the stipulated environment clearance conditions,
including results of monitored data on their website and shall update the same
periodically. It shall simultaneously be
sent to the Regional Office of the MOEF, the respective Zonal Office of CPCB
and the SPCB. The criteria pollutant
levels namely; SPM, RSPM, SO2, NOx (ambient levels as well as stack
emissions) or critical sectoral parameters, indicated for the projects shall be
monitored and displayed at a convenient location near the main gate of the
company in the public domain.
xvii.
The project proponent shall also submit
six monthly reports on the status of the compliance of the stipulated
environmental conditions including results of monitored data (both in hard
copies as well as by e-mail) to the respective Regional Office of MOEF, the
respective Zonal Office of CPCB and the SPCB.
xviii.
The environmental statement for each
financial year ending 31st March in Form-V as is mandated to be
submitted by the project proponent to the concerned State Pollution Control
Board as prescribed under the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, as amended
subsequently, shall also be put on the website of the company alongwith the
status of compliance of environmental conditions and shall also be sent to the
respective Regional Offices of the MOEF by e-mail.
7.0 The Ministry may revoke or suspend the
clearance, if implementation of any of the above conditions is not
satisfactory.
8.0
The Ministry reserves the right to stipulate additional conditions
if found necessary. The Company in a time bound manner shall implement these
conditions.
9.0 Any appeal against this environmental
clearance shall lie with the National Environment Appellate Authority, if
preferred within a period of 30 days as prescribed under Section 11 of the
National Environment Appellate Act, 1997.
10.0 The above conditions shall be enforced,
inter-alia under the provisions of the Water (Prevention & Control of
Pollution) Act, 1974, the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act,
1981, the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, Hazardous Wastes (Management and
Handling) Rules, 2003 and the Public (Insurance) Liability Act, 1991 along with
their amendments and rules.
(Dr. P. B. Rastogi)
Director
Copy to :
1. The Secretary, Department of Environment, Govt. of Orissa,
Bhubaneswar, Orissa.
2. Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board, Parivesh Bhavan,
CBD-cum-Office Complex, East Arjun Nagar, New Delhi ? 110 032.
3. Chairman, Orissa Pollution Control Board, Parivesh Bhavan, A/118,
Nikanthhanagar, Unit-8, Bhuvaneswar - 751 012, Orissa.
4. The Chief Conservator of Forests (Eastern), Regional Office (EZ),
A/3, Chandrasekharpur, Bhuvaneswar - 751 023, Orissa.
5. Adviser (IA-II), Ministry of Environment and Forests, Paryavaran
Bhavan, CGO Complex, New Delhi.
6. Monitoring Cell, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Paryavaran
Bhavan, CGO Complex, New Delhi.
7. Monitoring Cell
8. Guard File.
9. Record File.
(Dr. P. B. Rastogi)
Director