Public information on Industry and Mines

In accordance with the provisions of article 36 of Law 21/2013, of December 9, on Environmental Assessment, in the case of activities subject to ordinary environmental impact assessment included in article 7 and annex I, whose competence as a substantive body belongs to this General Directorate of Economic and Industrial Promotion, the promoter will submit the project and the environmental impact study to said body for submission to public information for a period of not less than 30 days, so that the allegations that may be made can be examined and made. deemed appropriate in this regard. The public information period is announced in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid.

The documents for each Project and Environmental Impact Study will be available for consultation within the term indicated in the corresponding announcement of the BOCM in the following spaces:

1. On this web page
2. In the General Directorate of Economic and Industrial Promotion of the Community of Madrid – sub-directorate or corresponding area, which will be indicated in each specific case.

Allegations may be made during the public information phase addressed to the General Directorate of Economic and Industrial Promotion (Area of ​​Mines and Security Installations) and may be submitted in any electronic registry of the public sector, assistance offices in the matter of registries or in the other places provided for in article 16.4 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, of the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations, unless the interested party is one of the subjects obliged to relate through electronic means or a representative of the same (legal persons, entities without legal personality, professionals in the exercise of an activity that requires compulsory membership, public employees acting by reason of their condition, groups of natural persons required by law to interact by electronic means, ...), in which case you must must be submitted electronically.

Here you can consult during the public information period the projects and environmental impact studies related to MINING EXPLOITATIONS. Likewise, in this act, the Natural Space Restoration Plan affected by mining work may also be taken into account. 

In accordance with article 6.1 of Royal Decree 975 / 2009, of 12 of June (Presidency), on waste management of extractive industries and protection and rehabilitation of the area affected by mining activities, in order to avoid duplication of processes and documents, when the realization of the research project or the use of mineral resources requires carrying out a public information process due to being subjected to an ordinary environmental evaluation process pursuant to the 21 / 2013 Law, of December 9, of environmental evaluation , this procedure will also include public participation in relation to the restoration plan that, according to article 4 of the aforementioned Royal Decree, must be presented prior to the granting of the mandatory authorization, permit or concession necessary for the use of resources minerals

They will be the subject of an ordinary environmental assessment and, therefore, of public information as established in article 36 of the aforementioned Law 21 / 2013, of 9 in December, the projects and environmental impact studies indicated in article 7 and annex I:

a) Those included in Annex I (indicated below), as well as projects that, presented in installments, reach the thresholds of Annex I through the accumulation of the magnitudes or dimensions of each of the projects considered.

b) Projects that are subject to a simplified environmental impact assessment, when the environmental body decides on a case by case basis, in the environmental impact report in accordance with the criteria in Annex III.

c) Any modification of the characteristics of a project included in Annex I or in Annex II, when said modification meets, on its own, the thresholds set out in Annex I.

d) Projects subject to a simplified environmental impact assessment, when requested by the developer

Annex I: 2 Group. Extractive industry.

a) Exploitations and fronts of the same authorization or open-pit concession of mineral deposits and other geological resources of sections A, B, C and D whose use is regulated by the 22 / 1973, of 21 of July, of Mines and complementary regulations, when one of the following circumstances occurs:

1. Holdings in which the area of ​​affected land exceeds 25 ha.

2. Holdings that have a total movement of land exceeding 200.000 cubic meters per year.

3. Exploitations carried out below the water table, taking as reference level the highest among the annual oscillations, or that may suppose a decrease in the recharge of superficial or deep aquifers.

4. Exploitations of deposits linked to current dynamics: fluvial, fluvial-glacial, coastal or wind. Those other deposits and peat bogs that due to their content in fossil flora may have scientific interest for palynological and paleoclimatic reconstruction. Extraction of peat, when the surface of the extraction ground exceeds 150 ha.

5. Exploitations visible from highways, highways, national and regional highways, protected natural spaces, urban nuclei above 1.000 inhabitants or located at distances less than 2 km of such nuclei.

6. Exploitations of substances that may suffer alterations by oxidation, hydration, etc., and that induce, in limits higher than those included in the legislation in force, to acidity, toxicity or other parameters in concentrations that pose a risk to human health or the environment environment, such as ores with sulfides, solid fuel exploitation, farms that require treatment by in situ leaching and radioactive minerals.

7. Extractions that, even if none of the above conditions are met, are less than 5 km from the limits of the area that is expected to be affected by the tillage and the annexed facilities of any existing open-pit mining exploitation or concession.

The projects, environmental impact studies and restoration plans during the public information period of mining operations that meet these requirements can be consulted in the download area of ​​this file. During the period indicated in the corresponding announcement in the BOCM, reasoned allegations that are considered appropriate may be made.

Such allegations must be addressed to the General Directorate of Economic and Industrial Promotion (Area of ​​Mines and Security Installations) and may be submitted in any electronic registry of the public sector, assistance offices in the matter of registries or in the other places provided for in article 16.4 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, of the Common Administrative Procedure of Public Administrations, unless the interested party is one of the subjects obliged to relate through electronic means or a representative of the same (legal persons, entities without legal personality, professionals in the exercise of an activity that requires compulsory membership, public employees who act by reason of their status, groups of natural persons who are legally obliged to interact by electronic means,...), in which case they must necessarily be submitted through electronic media.

In accordance with article 6 of Royal Decree 975/2009, of June 12, on the management of waste from extractive industries and the protection and rehabilitation of natural areas affected by mining activities, the General Directorate for Economic and Industrial Promotion within of the restoration plan authorization procedure opens a public information period of thirty business days from the day following its publication in the Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid, during which any interested person may access the documentation.

Article 70 of the General Regulations for the Mining Regime, approved by Royal Decree 2857/1978, of August 25, establishes that once the procedures established in Article 66 have been completed, the definitive admission of the application for the research permit will be declared. and a period of public information of the same will open.

The most relevant data on said request will be available for consultation within the period indicated in the corresponding announcement, counted from the day following the last publication, either in the "Official Gazette of the Community of Madrid" or in the "Official State Gazette" in the following spaces:

• On this web page
• In the General Directorate of Economic and Industrial Promotion of the Community of Madrid – sub-directorate or corresponding area, which will be indicated in each specific case.

In addition, in accordance with the provisions of art. 6 of RD 975 / 2009, of 12 of June, on waste management of extractive industries and protection and rehabilitation of the area affected by mining activities, the corresponding Restoration Plan is submitted to public information.

The excesses to a mining concession are lands contiguous or adjacent to it that, to be honest, do not have the required shape and extent to be able to configure one or more mining grids, that is, they are not registrable.

In accordance with article 57 of the General Regulation for the Mining Regime approved by Royal Decree 2857/1978, of August 25, the excess will be granted to existing contiguous concessions in accordance with the seventh transitional provision of the Mining Law and in accordance with the procedure defined in the regulations themselves.