RECOMMENDATIONS ISSUED FOR LAW ON SAVING RESERVED LANDS

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ A trilateral national committee has released a recommendation on intensifying the realization of the law on prohibiting the exploration and exploitation of mineral resources on reserved lands with sources of rivers, water resources and forest funds. At the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, a head of the Cabinet Secretariat of Government Ch.Khurelbaatar introduced the recommendation to the cabinet. Then orders were given to related Ministers to take necessary measures for implementing this recommendation and to put control over its realization. The trilateral national committee says it is important that the General Agency for Specialized Inspection (GASI) stops activities on the reserved lands, except environmental rehabilitation, mining block and environmental monitoring, for the Mineral Authority--to annul special licenses of entities that do not rehabilite the lands in accordance with the cabinet resolution, for the Ministry of Environment and Tourism--to set borders of the reserved lands and to have them approved by the cabinet, and for related Ministries--to thoroughly inspect special licenses for placer deposits of gold that lay outside of the reserved lines. Civil and specialized organizations are advised to partake in monitoring of over rehabilitation expenses made by those entities owning the special licenses for placer deposits of gold on the reserved lands. B.Khuder