Environmental Control Plans (PCAs)
Environmental Control Plans bring together all the actions and measures that minimize, compensate for or amplify the beneficial potential of the environmental impacts identified in the Environmental Impact Study (EIA) in specific programs. A multidisciplinary team, comprising professionals from the different areas to be covered by the measures to be implemented, is used to put the plans into effect.
In parallel with the introduction of the bauxite mine, as part of its legal obligations to the licensing body, Alcoa is carrying out a series of programs by the Environmental Control Plans and making funds of some R$30 million available for such. They are:
Physical Environment Programs (6)
- Climate monitoring;
- Air quality monitoring;
- Noise monitoring;
- Monitoring the quality of surface water (springs, streams, lakes and rivers);
- Control and monitoring of areas subject to erosion;
- Monitoring the quality of underground aquifers (underground water).
Biotic Environment Programs (7)
- Suppression and cleaning of vegetation (cutting down the forest/native vegetation);
- Flora conservation program (vegetation);
- Introduction of a nursery for producing seedlings;
- Inventory and monitoring of terrestrial fauna (animals);
- Monitoring of arachnids (species of spiders and invertebrates);
- Monitoring of icthyofauna (fish species);
- Monitoring of planktonic and benthonic communities (microorganisms that live in water).
Social and Economic Environment Programs (14)
- Social communication (relationship between the enterprise and its stakeholders);
- Actions for resettlement of people living in the Port area;
- Environmental education;
- Medical and sanitary service;
- Support for public educational service;
- Support for public security services;
- Urban reorganization of the town of Juruti;
- Training and qualifying local labor;
- Investment opportunities (training the local business community);
- Support for family agriculture;
- Multiple use non-wood extraction management of the forest for the economic and cultural sustainability of rural communities (improving the potential of production chains and generating income for communities that live within the area of influence of the Mine);
- Wealth management education;
- Archaeological prospecting and rescuing artifacts;
- Valuing and revitalizing cultural heritage.
Management Programs (8)
- Environmental monitoring and management;
- Environmental compensation;
- Environmental control and protection of the work-site;
- Reclamation of altered areas;
- Solid waste management;
- Liquid effluent management;
- Control of environmental emergencies;
- Plan for closing the mine (rehabilitation of the area).
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