Section 2. List of types of planned activities and facilities for which the screening procedure for the impacts of the planned activities is mandatory in the Environmental Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan
1. Energy industry:
1.1. installations for gasification and liquefaction of coal, tar shale, and other fuels with a capacity of 50 tons per day or more;
1.2. coal processing plants (coal and lignite), with the exception of thermal and chemical processing of coal, with a capacity of 1 million tons per year or more;
1.3. thermal power plants and other fuel combustion plants with a thermal capacity of 50 megawatts (MW) or more;
1.4. industrial installations for the production of electric energy, steam and hot water with a capacity of 50 megawatts (MW) or more;
1.5. hydroelectric power plants with a total installed capacity of 50 megawatts (MW) or more or with an installed capacity of a separate power plant of 10 megawatts (MW) or more;
1.6. structures for the use of wind energy for the production of electricity with a mast height exceeding 50 meters (windmills);
1.7. industrial briquetting of hard and brown coal;
1.8. facilities for the treatment and storage of radioactive waste.
2. Subsurface use:
2.1. exploration and production of hydrocarbons;
2.2. quarries and open-pit mining of solid minerals; open-pit coal mining of more than 100 thousand tons per year, lignite mining of more than 200 thousand tons per year;
2.3. exploration of solid minerals with the extraction of rock mass and the movement of soil for the purpose of assessing the resources of solid minerals;
2.4. any mining operations carried out in riverbeds or on the lands of the water fund using mechanization tools;
2.5. extraction and processing of common minerals over 10 thousand tons per year;
2.6. underground mining of solid minerals;
2.7. marine or river mining with excavation;
2.8. onshore industrial facilities for the extraction of coal, oil, natural gas and ores, as well as oil shale;
2.9. deep drilling (with the exception of drilling for soil stability studies), in particular:
2.9.1. drilling of geothermal wells to a depth of 200 m or more;
2.9.2. drilling for nuclear waste storage;
2.9.3. drilling for water supply to a depth of 200 m or more;
2.10. carrying out work on the reclamation of disturbed lands and other subsurface use facilities.
3. Production and processing of metals:
3.1. installations for the production of cast iron or steel (primary or secondary smelting), including continuous casting with a capacity of 2.5 tons per hour or more;
3.2. installations for processing ferrous metals:
3.2.1. hot rolling mills with a capacity exceeding 20 tons of crude steel per hour;
3.2.2. forging hammers, the energy of which exceeds 50 kilojoules (kJ) per hammer, and the consumed thermal power exceeds 20 megawatts (MW);
3.2.3. application of protective sprayed metal coatings with a feed of crude steel exceeding 2 tons per hour;
3.2.4. casting of ferrous metals with a production capacity exceeding 20 tons per day;
3.3. installations for:
3.3.1. smelting, including alloying, of non-ferrous metals (except precious metals), including recovered products (refining, foundry, etc.), with a melting capacity exceeding:
4 tons per day – for lead and cadmium;
20 tons per day – for all other non-ferrous metals;
3.3.2. surface treatment of metals and plastic materials using electrolytic or chemical processes in which the volume of vats used for processing exceeds 30 m3;
3.4. enterprises for the production and industrial assembly of cars;
3.5. automobile engine manufacturing enterprises;
3.6. shipyards (shipbuilding and ship repair facilities);
3.7. aircraft and helicopter manufacturing and repair enterprises;
3.8. enterprises producing railway vehicles and tank cars;
3.9. production of railway equipment;
3.10. workshops where blast molding is used, with a production area of more than 100 m2.
4. Processing of non-metallic minerals:
4.1. cement plants with a production capacity of 15 thousand tons per year or more;
4.2. installations for the production of cement clinker in rotary kilns with a production capacity exceeding 500 tons per day, or lime in rotary kilns with a production capacity exceeding 50 tons per day, or in other furnaces with a production capacity exceeding 50 tons per day;
4.3. enterprises for the production of asbestos and the manufacture of asbestos products;
4.4. installations for the production of glass and fiberglass with a melting capacity of 20 tons per day or more;
4.5. plants for melting mineral substances, including the production of mineral fibers, with a melting capacity of 20 tons per day or more;
4.6. installations for the production of ceramic products by firing, in particular roof tiles, bricks, refractory bricks, ceramic tiles, stone ceramics or porcelain products, with a production capacity exceeding 75 tons per day or more, and (or) using kilns with a cage density per kiln exceeding 300 kg/m3.
5. Chemical industry:
5.1. processing of chemical semi-finished products, production of chemical products (chemicals), pharmaceutical products, except for the production of pharmaceutical potassium salts (chloride, sulfuric acid, potash), varnishes, elastomers and peroxides, with a production capacity of 200 tons per year or more;
5.2. Installations for the destruction of explosives, ammunition, weapons and pyrotechnic products using chemical processes;
5.3. chemical installations in which chemical or biological processes are used for the production of protein feed additives, enzymes and other protein substances.
6. Waste management:
6.1. facilities where hazardous waste disposal or recovery operations are carried out, with a capacity of 500 tons per year or more;
6.2. municipal waste incinerators with a capacity exceeding 3 tons per hour;
6.3. landfills that receive more than 10 tons of non-hazardous waste per day, or with a total capacity exceeding 25 thousand tons, excluding inert waste landfills;
6.4. facilities where non-hazardous waste disposal operations are carried out with a capacity exceeding 50 tons per day;
6.5. facilities where non-hazardous waste disposal or recovery operations are carried out with a capacity exceeding 2,500 tons per year;
6.6. tailings dumps;
6.7. production of building materials from waste generated at thermal power plants;
6.8. sites for the storage of scrap iron and (or) vehicles to be disposed of in an area exceeding 1 thousand m2 or in an amount exceeding 1 thousand tons per year;
6.9. waste sorting enterprises with a production capacity of over 10 thousand tons per year;
6.10. open and closed warehouses of hazardous waste containing persistent organic pollutants, highly toxic substances, with a storage area of more than 100 m2.
7. Transport:
7.1. construction of airports and airfields;
7.2. construction of highways with a length of 1 km or more and (or) with a capacity of 1,000 vehicles per hour or more;
7.3. tram and elevated lines, subways, overhead lines or other similar lines used exclusively or primarily for passenger transportation;
7.4. Construction of inland waterways, canal laying and flood prevention activities;
7.5. Construction of water ports and port facilities, including fishing harbors.
8. Water resources management:
8.1. work on the transfer of water resources between basins and river systems, in which the volume of transferred water exceeds 5 million m3 per year (except for the transfer of tap drinking water);
8.2. dams and other structures intended for the retention or permanent storage of water, where the new or additional volume of retained or stored water exceeds 100 thousand tons. m3;
8.3. abstraction of surface and groundwater or artificial groundwater replenishment systems with an annual volume of withdrawn or replenished water equivalent to or exceeding 250 thousand liters. m3;
8.4. works in the coastal zone of water bodies aimed at combating erosion, construction of dams, jetties, marinas and other security structures, excluding maintenance and reconstruction of such structures;
8.5. wastewater treatment facilities with a capacity exceeding 5,000 m3 per day.
9. Pulp and paper and woodworking industry:
9.1. industrial enterprises for the production of paper and cardboard with a capacity of 20 tons per day or more;
9.2. production of chipboard and fiberboard using synthetic resins as binding materials with a capacity of 200 m3 per day.
10. Other types of activities:
10.1. pipelines and industrial facilities for the transportation of oil, chemicals, gas, steam and hot water with a length of more than 5 km;
10.2. transmission of electricity by overhead power lines from 110 kilovolts (kW);
10.3. livestock farms:
10.3.1. poultry breeding facilities (5,000 heads or more);
10.3.2. for the rearing and breeding of pigs (500 heads or more), sows (100 heads or more);
10.3.3. cattle breeding (1,500 heads or more);
10.3.4. sheep breeding (15 thousand heads or more);
10.4. onshore storage facilities for organic fuels with a capacity exceeding 10,000 tons;
10.5. natural gas storage facilities with a capacity of over 10 thousand tons. m3;
10.6. installations for pretreatment (washing, bleaching, mercerization), fiber or textile dyeing, where the volume of processed materials exceeds 10 tons per day;
10.7. enterprises for tanning hides and skins;
10.8. slaughterhouses with carcass processing capacities starting from 10 tons per day;
10.9. meat processing enterprises (meat processing plants), including bases for pre-slaughter livestock up to a three-day supply of raw materials, with a capacity of over 5 thousand tons of products per year;
10.10. packaging and preservation of meat of animals and vegetable products with a capacity exceeding 100 thousand tons per year;
10.11. enterprises producing fish meal and fish oil (over 5 thousand tons of products per year);
10.12. production of vegetable and animal oils and fats from 20 thousand tons per year;
10.13. brewing and malting over 1,500 liters per day;
10.14. production of edible alcohol over 5 thousand liters per day;
10.15. industrial starch production enterprises (over 50 thousand tons of products per day);
10.16. sugar factories with a capacity exceeding 150 thousand tons of products per year;
10.17. production of confectionery and syrups with a capacity exceeding 10 thousand tons of products per year;
10.18. production of dairy products over 5 thousand liters per day;
10.19. installations for the disposal of animal corpses; animal burial grounds with burial of animal corpses in pits;
10.20. glue-making enterprises that produce glue from the remains of leather, field and landfill bones and other animal waste and refuse;
10.21. production of technical gelatin from bone, mezdra, leftovers of skin and other animal waste and refuse with their storage in a warehouse;
10.22. recycling plants for the processing of corpses of dead animals, fish, their parts and other animal waste and refuse (conversion into fats, animal feed, fertilizers);
10.23. bone-burning and bone-cutting plants;
10.24. initial afforestation and deforestation for the purpose of converting land plots for another type of land use;
10.25. storage of manure and manure from 1 ton per day;
10.26. production of phenol-formaldehyde pressed materials, pressed and wound paper products, fabrics based on phenol-formaldehyde resins;
10.27. production or processing of polymers, elastomers, synthetic rubbers, elastomer-based products with a capacity exceeding 1,000 tons per year;
10.28. places of unloading of apatite concentrate, phosphorous flour, cement and other dusty cargoes with a cargo turnover of more than 150 thousand tons per year;
10.29. places of transshipment and storage of liquid chemical cargoes and liquefied gases (methane, propane, ammonia and others), industrial compounds of halogens, sulfur, nitrogen, hydrocarbons (methanol, benzene, toluene and others), alcohols, aldehydes and other chemical compounds;
10.30. cleaning and flushing and steaming stations, disinfection and flushing facilities, cleaning points for ships, tanks, reception and treatment facilities designed to receive ballast and flushing oil-containing waters from specialized water collectors;
10.31. the placement of facilities and the implementation of any type of activity in specially protected natural areas, in their protected and buffer zones.
11. Tourism and leisure:
11.1. boat stations designed for more than 25 vessels with a displacement of over 1 ton;
11.2. theme parks on an area of more than 2 hectares;
11.3. ski resorts, recreational complexes, hotel complexes (and related facilities) on an area of more than 1 hectare.
12. Activities involving the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms into the environment in any new location, and the use of genetically modified organisms in closed systems.
13. The types of planned activities specified in section 1 of this annex, which are intended solely or primarily for the development and testing of new methods or products.
Note. If the types or objects of activity in sections 1 and 2 of this annex coincide, section 2 includes the types and objects of activity that have quantitative indicators characterizing them below the thresholds specified in section 1 of this annex.
President
Republic of Kazakhstan
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