Recently, the Standing Committee of Liaoning Provincial People’s Congress deliberated and adopted the “Regulations on Comprehensive Mine Management in Liaoning Province” (hereinafter referred to as the “Bill”) and submitted it to the Standing Committee of the Provincial People’s Congress for consideration.
In accordance with more than ten laws and administrative regulations, such as the Mineral Resources Law, the Safety Production Law, the Environmental Protection Law, and the relevant provisions of the State Ministries and Committees, and referring to the relevant local laws and regulations of Liaoning Province and the experience of other provinces, the Bill focuses on the comprehensive management of Mines under the “five-mineral rule” of “reduction of mining rights, transformation of mining industry, safety of mining enterprises, mine ecology and stability of mining areas”. Requirements are made.
By the end of 2017, there were 3219 non-coal mines in Liaoning Province. Small mines accounted for nearly 90% of the total number of mines in Liaoning Province. Their spatial distribution was scattered and their scale efficiency was poor. Mining industry needed to be transformed and upgraded urgently. Mineral surplus and shortage coexist, the industrial chain is short, the level of industrial development is low, the level of technological, technological and equipment transformation of mining enterprises is low, and the “three-rate” of mineral resources (mining recovery rate, mineral processing recovery rate, comprehensive utilization rate) is generally not high.
In view of the current situation and the actual situation of Liaoning Province, the Bill makes specific provisions on the optimization of mining structure: encouraging municipal and county governments to rely on the advantages of mineral resources to develop resources intensive processing industry, cooperate with mining enterprises and promote the construction of Liaoning’s national new raw material base; encouraging enterprises with abundant funds and advanced technology to lag behind in equipment and low in technology content. Mines with low level of comprehensive utilization, potential safety hazards and unsatisfactory emissions should be integrated and reorganized; new, expanded and rebuilt mining projects should conform to relevant state regulations on ecological protection, mineral resources planning and industrial policies.
In recent years, the main responsibility of safety production in some mining enterprises is not fulfilled, the conditions of safety production are not up to the standard, safety measures and investment are not in place, safety education and training are missing, the “three violations” problem is more prominent, and the frequent occurrence of production safety accidents has not been effectively curbed.
In order to fully implement the main responsibility of safety production of mining enterprises, strengthen comprehensive renovation of key areas and effectively curb production safety accidents, the Bill stipulates that mining enterprises should establish a double preventive mechanism of safety risk grading control and hidden danger investigation and treatment, carry out safety risk grading control, implement the system of investigation and treatment of hidden dangers of production safety accidents, and adopt technical and management measures. The departments of emergency management, natural resources, development and reform, industry and information technology, ecological environment, etc. shall formulate the implementation plan of comprehensive control of tailings reservoirs in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state and province, and divide their duties according to their responsibilities, focusing on “overhead reservoir”, “tailings reservoir, abandoned reservoir, dangerous reservoir and dangerous reservoir in important water source protection areas. Government.
In addition, the Bill also lays emphasis on the prevention and control of mine pollution and the restoration of geological environment. It establishes a responsibility system for environmental protection, stipulates that mine enterprises discharging pollutants are the main body responsible for environmental protection and pollution prevention, and assumes responsibility for their behavior of discharging pollutants and the environmental pollution and ecological damage caused by them; and establishes a monitoring mechanism for mine geological environment. It is stipulated that the competent department of natural resources shall establish a monitoring system of mine geological environment within its administrative region, improve monitoring network and dynamically monitor mine geological environment; it is prohibited to cause new damage to the ecological environment around the restoration area in the process of mine protection and rehabilitation, and enterprises, social organizations or individuals are encouraged to invest in closed or abandoned mines. The geological environment of the mine was harnessed and restored.