УДК: 622.882.1
PhD student Bakhtiyar Yasmina
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
STATE REGULATION OF
SUBSOIL RATIONAL USE QUESTIONS
The question of subsoil rational and complex use and its protection
gains special relevance after receiving independence by the Republic of Kazakhstan
and transition to market transformation and reforms. The
declaration on the state sovereignty of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
fixed in articles 9 and 11 that subsoil is a sole property of Kazakhstan, independently
defines an order of environment protection and a subsoil use in the Republic of
Kazakhstan [1].
Opencast mining of mineral deposits is connected with considerable
withdrawal of lands for mineral production conducting. Because of opencast
mining the anthropogenous
landscapes in the form of career dredging and external dumps are formed. The
derelict lands before their recultivation are sources of surrounding
environment pollution: atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. Reduction of an
opencast mining negative consequence on surrounding environment is possible at
land reclamation rates acceleration.
The formed opencasts and dumps of overburden breeds because of movement
of rock massive considerable volume create the greatest problems for
environment, i.e. the basic changes in a landscape come round. Rates of land
reclamation in the republic do not correspond to growth of the derelict lands
sizes at mineral resources opencast mining.
Now there are various technological schemes of earth's fertile layer removal,
dumps formation taking into account recultivation, stripping soils selective
dredging on their suitability for land reclamation [1-4]. In them it is not
paid due attention to questions of land reclamation efficiency increase at
development of superficial deposits taking into account mining-and-geological
and mining conditions of their bedding. In this regard, the researches directed
on land reclamation technology justification in the course of superficial
deposits open mining development are actual. Therefore, there is a need of
researches carrying out on land reclamation technology justification at
superficial type deposits opencast mining due to purposeful placement of
stripping soils in a dump body taking into account their suitability for restoration
of the derelict areas.
The present stage of open mining
development is characterized by complication of mining-and-geological
conditions at simultaneous requirements increase to environment negative impact
reduction. It predetermines the importance of timely land reclamation in opencast
mining technology. Therefore, before starting performance of open mining
operations, it is necessary to have a clear idea that we will leave on a place
of mining works. After opencast mining, we have to leave the earth in the best
state or at least same what it was before mining operations conducting.
Besides, all mining operations have to be performed with the minimum expenses.
In these conditions value of the derelict areas occupation and restoration
intensity around opencast mining is sharply increases[2].
In the conditions of modern advanced industrial
society the environmental protection problems solution widely gets into all
human activity spheres. In this regard for deeper understanding and practical
use of the main regularities and the man and nature relationship phenomena,
their development tendency and scales of the processes developing in the nature
it is not enough to study only those environment violations that arise in the
course of man production activity. The scientifically based attitude
considering all phenomena connected with this problem, as part of the Earth and
society general developments that has to find reflection in the tasks solution
at the lowermost hierarchical levels of a production activity has to succeed
this utilitarian approach to the nature, beginning, first from production
design and its consequences forecasting for environment.
The conservation problem when
fields open mining reached such degree that its action became strong to affect
the course of the biosphere natural evolution. Intervention in the nature in
such scales is reflected in environment quality, in those equilibrium
ecological states that exist between elements of wildlife and inanimate nature.
In large mining areas, there is landscape, climatic, hydro geological and aero
logical changes [3]. There are intensive, taking big spaces, redistribution
of chemical elements that mean the characteristic anomalies on the planet
normal biochemical background are formed. Feature of these anomalies is that
they arise always for some years. One of the conservation main objectives - to
weaken these anomalies as much as possible.
The Republic of Kazakhstan possesses considerable
minerals reserves therefore the
President and the Government of the republic the priority part in the country
development assigned to the mining
industry which in Kazakhstan differs in the stables growth, is characterized by
commissioning new and development of the operating enterprises and, besides,
possesses huge prospects for further development [1].
For further improvement of timely land reclamation,
the matter solution has to be equipped with: scientific base, schemes developed
technological, state regulation, monitoring of all aspects.
First, it should be noted that on the substance any
aspect of a subsoil rational and complex use problem finds reflection in the
right in the form of the relevant requirements expression shown to a subsoil
use. Legal subsoil protection
- the main instrument of subsoil protection [4].
First, we will define that represent subsoil; we will give the
definition of subsoil existing in the current legislation of the Republic of
Kazakhstan. So the Decree of the President of the Republic of
Kazakhstan which is valid the law, "About a subsoil and subsurface
use" of January 27, 1996 (further "The decree on a subsoil")
gives legal definition of the term "subsoil".
Subsoil is the part of crust located below a soil layer, and at its
absence - below a terrestrial surface, and a bottom of reservoirs, stretches to
depths available to carrying out operation on subsurface use taking into
account scientific and technical progress.
However, a subsoil it not only resources which have to give independence
and economic prosperity. It first of all, fragile natural object which main
difference is its not replenishment and nonregenerability.
Problems and one of actions of a subsoil protection are legal,
organizational, economic and others (Art. 47 of the decree on subsoil):
- if they are directed on the population life and health protection;
- minerals rational and complex use;
- natural landscapes preservation and land reclamation of other
geomorphological structures;
- to a power condition properties preservation of the subsoil top
parts for the purpose of earthquake, landslides, floodings, soil sags.
The decree gives the list of ecological requirements which need to
observe and be not to allowed their violations. Accurate regulation of the
relations on a subsoil (natural
resources) protection are one of important guarantees of their use efficiency
ensuring. The legislation existing in this area not only didn't promote
overcoming of ecological crisis, but in many respects provoked their approach
and growth.
The law "About Environmental Protection in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic", in 1991
recognized a subsoil, along with other
objects of the nature; as a material basis of the young state sovereignty.
The constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 1993 considered a
subsoil as object of sole state ownership.
The Constitution of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 1995 adopted on a
republican referendum fixed that natural resources are in state ownership.
Change "a sole property of the state" didn't influence the
legislation in the subsoil protection field. That a subsoil can only be used on
the basis of permission or a certain order of subsurface use permission through
the license, the contract, etc.
The acts governing the relation on a subsoil use and protection often
had declarative character, without paying due attention to the subsoil
protection problems. Laws or poorly reacted to these problems, or sent on
bylaws. They didn't provide real and sufficient effective legal consequences in
that case when legal entities and individuals allowed not a thrifty attitude to
a subsoil. In these conditions life defined need of the new statutory act
adoption devoted to a subsoil. Such act at this legislation development stage
in the subsoil use and protection field is the Decree (which is valid the law)
of January 20, 1996 "About a subsoil and subsurface use".
With adoption of the Decree on a subsoil "The code about a subsoil
and mineral raw materials
processing" accepted on May 30, 1992 was cancelled.
The adoption of the Decree on subsoil was preceded by development of the
special legislation on oil, gold, jewels. In the Decree on subsoil the basic is
the license and contract system provision, the rights and the subsoil user's
duties.
The need for the new legislation on subsoil protection and it's use, was
caused by foreign investments inflow and increase in a share of the raw
materials industry of the Republic. One of the main requirements of subsoil
protection legal regime is the fields correct investigation, subsurface
rational and complex use, a regulation of the rights and the subsoil user's
duties, economic coercion and stimulation from the state within legislative
base. The right has property to fix the developed public relations and to
establish these relations framework for maintaining participants.
In the conclusion it would be desirable to note that Kazakhstan is on
the threshold of economic transformations, one of the factors allowing this
process to be painless are subsoil use and protection.
Today the raw
materials extracting and processing industry hold a leading position in our
country economy. However it is necessary to consider that a subsoil
characteristics like not replenishment and nonregenerability, exhaustibility —
that minerals are differ from other objects. To use a natural resources long time
it is necessary to develop them complex and rationally. Legal regulation
of subsurface use is in one way or another directed on subsoil complex and
rational use. To protect a subsoil means to allow their uses and the current
legislation is directed on stimulation of investments into subsurface use [1].
Therefore the
recultivation possibilities, the soil removal and transfer on other place don't reduce a relevance of
agricultural grounds protection from unreasonable withdrawals for
nonagricultural needs at all. The lands needing restoration by recultivation
means belong to lands category with a particular treatment. Any kinds of
activity capable to lead further lands
deterioration are forbidden. In the indications presence the possibility of the
land plot purpose change, a type of the carried-out economic activity,
restriction or a total ban of economic circulation of the land plot with its
withdrawal and transfer to structure of lands of a stock is provided. Special
procedure for lands derelict existence and degree identification is applied.
The legislation provided special norms set defining an identification order, a
derelict lands legal regime, conditions, an order and ways of their
restoration.
Recultivation is
considered as one of the main protection ways, providing a qualitative
condition of land resources [3]. Organizational and legal bases of carrying out
actions for
recultivation of
lands are provided in the Legislative Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan and
other normative legal acts. But in general this direction of the legislation on
lands protection needs further improvement. Against of other countries legislations development the regulation
insufficiency is clearly looked through. Legal support of economic incentives
of land reclamation as one of the
perspective directions of improvement is represented.
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