SOUTH URAL BLOSSOMING ILLEGAL MINING
In the Chelyabinsk region Illegal mining has acquired a mass character - the reason is that the municipal authorities fail to implement the powers transferred to them by the geological supervision, reports news agency `Access` with reference to the minister of industry and natural resources of the region, Vladimir Pavlov.
So, in Karabash for more than five years there has been illegal extraction of limestone that is conjugate to the actual damage of the deposit of quartzite flux (strategic raw materials of dual-use). Plunder the approximate volume of 50-60 cubic meters per day. In this case, no such tax payments from the budget of the production area and the city did not do that. `Administration Karabash to these papers are issued permits to conduct land operations, contract to landscaping, which provides that the payment is made to the executor collected at the site a stone`, - said Vladimir Pavlov.
In Miass in the Lower Atlyana are also being illegal mining limestone. Kremenkulskoe field of building sand in Sosnovskoye area turned into a garbage dump waste on the territory Fedorovsk field stone work for a long time passed without a license in the area of distributed production Chebarkulsky sandy gravel with disabilities.
According to Vladimir Pavlov, this situation is due to the fact that in June 2012 on the organization of the powers of supervision over mining operations were transferred to the municipal level, but they are not currently implemented. `Almost none of the municipality not adopted the organization and implementation of geological control over the use and protection of mineral resources, the authorized body is not defined. The exception is one of Ust-Katavsky Borough `, - said the minister.
He noted that the first half of 2012 to the budget of the Chelyabinsk region received income from taxes on mining operations in the amount of 373 million rubles. Compared with 2010, revenue growth was 45% in 2011 and 79% in 2012. `This growth could be higher if the bona fide mining companies did not have the competitive pressure on the market from the illegal miners`, - said Vladimir Pavlov.
Add that up raids conducted regional Ministry of Industry, was initiated 11 administrative cases. The monitoring was established critical condition with illegal mining. Given the massive nature of the violations in the region, to curb illegal mining, an interdepartmental working group, comprising representatives of law enforcement agencies and law enforcement.
