The Environment Agency publishes a notice under paragraph 47(2) of the General Law on the Environment (KeÜS).

The Environment Agency States that the request for amendment of the mining permit (“mining permit”) L.MK/324941 (registered under document management system of the Environment Agency No 02.04.2018 No 12-2/18/4790) for Western Road OÜ (registry code: 10879306) (address WATERLAND, HANSESTADT Haapsalu, Uuemõisa subsection, Tallinn Tallinna mnt 70 70) has been accepted.

Lääne Teed OÜ requests an amendment to the application for authorisation to exploit the resources of the Ohemäe sandy quarry in the following parts: the area of the mining reserve, the covered spare blocks, the period of validity and the stock to be extracted. The mountain allocation applied for is situated entirely within the catchment area of an existing mountain allocation, while the limit of the catchment area remains the same.

The request for amendment of the mining permit is made in the municipality of Pärnu, in the municipality of West Anna, in the village of Tuud, for the State-owned cadastral district of Ohemäe's quarry (cadastritus 41101:003:0770), managed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications and the authorised authority is the public Road Administration.

The alpine deposit to be modified is called the Ohemäe sand quarry, which is situated in the Ohemäe sandy deposit (registry card No 0318). The mountain allocation has an area of 11.48 ha and the service area of the mountain allocation is 11.68 ha. As per the environmental registry 30.09.2018, the active consumption of the building gravel of the Ohemäe mountain range to be modified is 5 thousand m3 and the extracted stock is 4 thousand m3; the active consumption of the building sand is 44 thousand m3 and the extracted stock is 41 thousand m3; the active consumption of the filling sand is 128 thousand m3 and the extracted stock is 110 thousand m3. An average annual extraction rate of 10 thousand m ³ is requested. The exploitation of mineral resources is civil and road construction. The period of validity of the authorisation applied for shall be 15 years.

The decision to initiate the procedure for amending the mining permit and other relevant documents can be consulted at the nearest Office of the Environment Agency (+372 452 7773, info@keskkonnaamet.ee).
The application is made available digitally from the Register of documents of the Environment Agency at http://dhs-ADR-kea.envir.ee/

until a decision is taken to modify the mining permit or to refuse to modify the mining permit, everyone has the right to submit reasoned proposals and objections to the application to the Environment Agency. Proposals and objections may be submitted orally or in writing to an e-mail address at the info@keskkonnaamet.ee address or postal address Tallinn 22, Kuressaare, the municipality of Saaremaa, the island region 93819.

The draft decision amending the mining permit will be further notified by the Environment Agency in the Official Gazette Ametlikud Teadaanded.