Regulations on handling soil in the course of land reclamation to be approved in 2015

The list of hazardous substances allowed for bottom soil which is to be used for construction purposes within internal sea waters and territorial sea of the Russian Federation, as well as the regulations for the use of such soil is to be approved in 2015, approximately by the season of dredging operations, IAA PortNews journalist refers to Konstantin Palnikov, Director of RF Transport Ministry’s Department of State Policy for Marine and River Transport, as saying at the II International Forum of Dredging Companies arranged by Media Group PortNews in Moscow.  

According to him, such issues are to be regulated by sublaws of RF Government.

When developing draft regulations on the list of hazardous substances, Transport Ministry proposed to include a clause on non-application of the ban on disposal of extracted soil containing ‘traces of pollutants’. Otherwise, it will be impossible to use/dispose extracted soil, the Ministry believes. 

According to the proposal, extracted soil can be used if concentration of hazardous substances in it does not exceed that of the soil in the area of construction before the extracted soil was used.

The Regulations on the use of soil will, in their turn, regulate legal relations between the natural and legal entities involved in dredging operations and construction of facilities within internal sea waters and territorial sea of Russia.