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

The Environment Agency States that the application submitted by AS YIT Eesti (registry code: 10093801) (address Harju County, Tallinn, districts of the city centre, Pärnu mnt 102b, 11312) for amendment of environmental permit No L.MK/300603 for the extraction of mineral resources in the mountain allocation of the quarry of Kalajärve II has been accepted.

According to the application, AS YIT Eesti would like to extend the mining permit for 13 years as it is not possible to dispose of all the consumables of building sand on the basis of production activity and to clean up the land damaged by mining by the deadline set in the mining permit, 22.04.2020.

Paragraph 67(1) of the Mining Act (“the MaaPS”) provides that, if, during the period of validity of the mining authorisation, the mineral resources extracted have not been exhausted or the land extracted has not been restored, the authorisation holder, at the request of the authorisation holder, is to extend the period of validity of the authorisation for the period necessary to exhaust the mineral resources, but for a period not exceeding that laid down in paragraph 60(1) of the MaaPS. Under paragraph 60(1) of the Landaps, authorisation to exploit sand, gravel, lake beach, lake sludge and seabed sludge is granted for a period of up to 15 years and may therefore be extended for a further 15 years. Since the mining permit has been extended twice (by order No V 1-15/12/14 and order No V1-15/15/1 of 12.01.2012 of the President of the Region of Viru of the Environment Agency) for a total period of 8 years, it can only be extended for a further 7 years.

Fish paints II sand quarry (cadastral Identifier 27301:001:0155, intended use: mining land 100%,) is located in the state-owned cadastral estate in the municipality of Kadrina in Lääne-Viru, Latvia. The manager of that cadastral parcel is the Ministry of the Environment and the Delegated Authority is the Maa-amet. The surface area of the mountain allocation to the cattle of fish paints II and the surface area of the catchment area of the mountain allocation of fish paints II shall be 0,74 ha.

The mountain allocation of the fish paints II fallow is linked to block 4 of the active consumption of the building sand on the Kalajärve deposit. The amount of active consumption of building sand in the mountain allocation is 84 thousand m ³, including the 49 thousand m ³ extracted stock (as at 30.04.2009. a). The use of the mineral resource is construction and road construction.

The request for amendment of the environmental permit and other relevant documents can be consulted at the nearest office of the Environment Agency.
The application shall be digitally accessible in the https://dhs-ADR-kea.envir.ee/ system of the Environment Agency

until the decision to amend or refuse to amend the environmental permit is taken, everyone shall have the right to submit reasoned proposals and objections to the Environment Agency. Proposals and objections may be submitted orally or in writing to the e-mail address info@keskkonnaamet.ee or to the postal address Viljandi mnt 16, 11216 Tallinn.

The Environment Agency shall further inform the Official Gazette Ametlikud Teadaanded of the preparation of a draft amendment or refusal to modify an environmental permit.