GAZETTE NOTICE NO. 7246

PURSUANT to regulation 21 of Environmental (Impact Assessment and Audit) Regulations, the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) has received an Environmental Impact Assessment Study Report for the implementation of the proposed sludge oil recycling plant. The Proponent (Fast Three Agencies Limited) of the proposed sludge oil processing on LR No. CR-36695 and on subdivision number CR-4571/23/V/MN, Jomvu, Changamwe District, Mombasa county has proposed to install two above surface tanks (45cm above a paved surface) tanks for storage of used oil, sludge thickening pond, a sludge drying bed, an anaerobic digestion cylinder, a purified oil tank and an oil and water interceptor. The used oil that will be stored in the tanks will later be cleaned and reused (recycled). The tanks that will be placed 45cm above a paved surface will each have a capacity to handle an average of 20-40 tonnes of sludge daily. The following are the anticipated impacts and proposed mitigation measures: Possible Impact Mitigation measures Oil spills during discharge from ship. • Ensure the ship and the truck from where discharge is done has an intact piping system that is free from any leaks. • Ensure the truck to discharge has undergone thorough scrutiny and is duly licensed to engage in the discharge of sludge oil from ships. • Ensure the pollution control office at the port of Mombasa is fully aware of all ships undergoing discharge at any of the berths. • Any reported oil spills must be notified trough the KPA’s warning system and action taken immediately to avert a crisis • Extent of oil spills must be documented for future recording and possible action/mitigation. Oil spills during transit • Ensure no truck deals in the transport of sludge before being licensed by both NEMA and KPA. • Ensure every truck transporting sludge has undergone thorough scrutiny to ascertain whether no spills can be reported. • Ensure any truck exhibiting leaking contents is quickly stopped at whatever destination to avert spread of the leaking contents. • Cushion members of the public by cordoning off all areas where a leaking oil tank has been spotted. Oil spills at the processing yard • Ensure the yard is paved on its entire surface with sufficient drains to ensure no oil drains to either soil or water. • Ensure no truck discharges/off loads without requisite inspection of the storage tanks and the piping system of the tank. • No discharge should ever be done without strict supervision by the yard manager and he/she should take full responsibility of any incident concerning oil spills. Oil spills on the paved surface • Oil containment drains be designed to ensure they absorb/trap any spillages in oil on the paved surface • Ensure the materials used for paving the surface at the yard does not have porous material that could make spillages penetrate to the ground surface to impact on soil • Ensure adequate supply of water that can be used to mop up the surface that has traces of oil in a bid to ensure it is ever clean and all such water should drain to the oil/water interceptor Fire outbreaks processing yard. • The yard should have sufficient fire extinguishers fitted at strategic points within the yard. • There must be an entry and exit with the emergence exit clearly labelled, ‘emergence exit’. • The yard manager should maintain hotline numbers to established fire fighting houses such as KPA, KAA, and the municipal council of Mombasa. Oil spills on water (sea, inland). • Ensure any trace of oil on water is quickly acted upon by blocking the point at which oil is flowing from the main tank. • Ensure oil is not allowed to spread further by dredging it if possible or stopping the spread by using equipment made available at the pollution control office at KPA. • Ensure maximum caution on areas where a water body is in the vicinity by avoiding such areas or ensuring all leak prone areas are under strict check. Waste oil at the processing yard when decanting is done. • The oil/water interceptor will store that in the meantime as relocation to a bigger storage tank is done. • Any excess waste oil will have to be subject to further purification to reduce traces of oil in it. • When the water is relatively pure enough it will be sold out to various construction companies to sprinkle along roads under construction. • Waste water samples in the oil/water interceptor will be subject to NEMA accredited laboratory testing to ascertain amount of oil left and whether discharge into the open environment is feasible. The full report of the proposed project is available for inspection during working hours at: (a) Director-General, NEMA, Popo Road, off Mombasa Road, P.O. Box 67839 - 00200, Nairobi. (b) Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, NHIF Building, Community, P.O. Box 30521, Nairobi (c) Provincial Director of Environment, Coast Province. (d) District Environmental Officer, Mombasa District. THE KENYA GAZETTE 31st May, 2012 1928 1928 The National Environment Management Authority invites members of the public to submit oral or written comments within thirty (30) days from the date of publication of this notice to the Director-General, NEMA, to assist the Authority in the decision making process of the plan. B. M. LANGWEN, for Director-General, MR/9116229 National Environment Management Authority.