Guidelines for granting Environment Clearance for expansion of coal mining projects involving one time production capacity expansion in the existing operation: Office Memorandum
The O.M. of even number dated 19.12.2012 deals with the guidelines for granting Environment Clearance (EC) for expansion of coal mining projects involving one time capacity expansion of up to 25% in the existing operation. The Ministry of Coal have been taking up with this Ministry, the case of smaller coal mining projects and have argued that the cap of capacity expansion up to 25% for such projects, as per the existing guidelines vide O.M. dated 19.12.2012, is inadequate as it results in relatively small increase in production in absolute terms of such mines. They have requested for increasing the limited of capacity expansion in respect of smaller projects.