(1) Every holder of the production lease ( on grant or renewal ) shall be required to submit an application alongwith Environment Impact Assessment, Environment Management Programme Report and other documents as specified by the Ministry of Environment and Forests and obtain environment clearance from the Ministry of Environment and Forests before the commencement of production operation.
(2) Every holder of the production lease shall carry out the production operations in accordance with the scheme of production submitted under rule 55 or with such modifications, if any, as intimated under rule 56, or as directed by the administering authority and in compliance with conditions imposed for grant of environment clearance.
57. Intimation about production operations- Every holder of a production lease shall send to the administering authority, an intimation of the commencement of production operations within a period of fifteen days of such commencement.
58. Submission of reports about production operations- Every holder of a production lease shall send to the Director General, Geological Survey of India, Kolkata and the administering authority a six monthly report in Form W along with all underwater photography, geological, geophysical, geochemical and such other data collected by him as per the conditions stipulated in the production lease within thirty days after expiry of every six months period from the date of execution of the production lease or the expiry of the production lease or the abandonment of the production lease or termination of production lease, whichever is earlier:
Provided that in the case of investigations pertaining to the atomic minerals, such report shall also be submitted to the Secretary to the Government of India dealing with Atomic Energy.
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