Licensing but not publicly announcing
On April 20, the Government Inspectorate just publicly announced Notice No. 1067/TB-TTCP announcing the thematic inspection conclusion on the management of exploration, survey, planning, licensing, exploitation, and transportation of construction material (VLXD) mines in Phu Tho province.
Regarding the survey and licensing of exploration and exploitation of building materials minerals, the Government Inspectorate pointed out: Phu Tho Provincial People's Committee has issued 55 exploration licenses but did not publicly announce them on the website of the competent licensing agency and the national bidding network, and Dau Thau Newspaper when receiving dossiers from the first organization or individual with a need to explore minerals and when the organization or individual was selected to be granted a Mineral Exploration License in the non-auction area, it did not comply with regulations.
The selection of exploration organizations for sand mines in the area is based on the written requests of enterprises, not publicly implementing the selection of organizations to conduct exploration is not in accordance with regulations. At the same time, the approval for mineral exploration units leads to when they fail to win the auction, these units do not cooperate, causing difficulties for the winning unit in negotiating to return exploration costs, slowing down the exploitation license time of the winning unit.
The Provincial People's Committee dividing 1 sand mine point (belonging to Minh Nong ward, Viet Tri city) into 3 mine points to license exploration and mineral exploitation is not in accordance with the provisions of Article 53 of the 2010 Mineral Law.
Regarding land management, management of mining activities at mines, management of mineral transportation activities in the area:
There are 16 mine sites that have not been allocated land or leased land, the Department of Natural Resources and Environment has not inspected and examined, leading to projects that have not completed land allocation and land lease procedures but have already carried out mineral exploitation. There are projects where the Department of Natural Resources and Environment organizes the handover of land on the ground to businesses when there is no land lease contract, which is not implemented in accordance with the prescribed order and procedures.
At mine projects, there are still many types of violations such as: Some mines are exploited not according to the height of the layers, angle according to the design; the actual site no longer has the markers of the angle closing points according to the exploitation map; some mines have not installed weigh stations at the location to bring minerals out; many mines have not completed procedures to close mines, renovate and restore the environment; some mines manage and store dossiers and documents incompletely...
The situation of violations in mineral transportation activities is still high, including violations in warehouse areas, wharves, and mineral gathering points, as shown through the results of inspection and handling of violations by functional agencies of the province.
The management of collection and payment to the state budget still has 45,444,393,043 VND that has not been collected from 43 mining enterprises.
The Provincial People's Committee is slow to issue documents regulating the conversion ratio from finished minerals to raw minerals as a basis for calculating environmental protection fees; slow to approve projects to close mines for some projects that have terminated their licenses; slow to urge and handle the implementation of projects to close mines and restore the environment; inspection and examination activities have detected many violations, but the handling of some contents and cases is still not thorough.
The responsibility for the above-mentioned limitations, shortcomings, and violations belongs to the Phu Tho Provincial People's Committee, leaders of the Phu Tho Provincial People's Committee in charge of the fields at the relevant time; relevant departments, branches, districts, towns, communes, wards; Investors of mining projects and related organizations and individuals" - The Government Inspectorate's Conclusion Notice clearly stated.
