(ĐN) – On April 10, Vice Chairwoman of Đồng Nai Provincial People’s Committee Nguyễn Thị Hoàng signed Official Dispatch No. 3984/UBND-KTN to the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment, reporting difficulties related to the supply of construction materials for key southern projects.
In the report, the province highlighted several issues that may lead to a shortfall in construction material supply, the most significant of which concerns land procedures.
A quarry in the Tam Phước – Phước Tân cluster facing land lease issues. Photo: Hoàng Lộc
Land exists, but cannot be leased
According to the province’s report, the area of land that can actually be exploited in the quarries is much smaller than the permitted area due to legal and administrative barriers. Enterprises face difficulties in negotiating land use right transfers. After the transfer, they must change the land-use purpose before leasing it for mining operations.
Even just transferring land use rights poses several challenges:
Some plots cannot be transferred in their entirety.
Some transferred areas lack land use certificates.
In many cases, the landowners have passed away, moved, or have not completed inheritance procedures.
In other cases, the transferred land’s use duration has expired.
These issues prevent companies from completing land lease procedures.
A typical example is the 10 stone quarries in the Tam Phước – Phước Tân cluster, Biên Hòa City. While all have been granted mineral mining licenses and paid mining rights fees:
9 out of 10 have only partially leased the licensed land.
The remaining land has already been compensated for or transferred to the companies.
The Provincial People’s Committee has made efforts, including extending mining licenses, adjusting investment certificates, revising zoning plans, and approving land use plans. However, resolving these legal hurdles and completing land lease procedures still takes time.
If the companies are forced to stop operations on unleased land, mining output would drop significantly. The 10 quarries in Tam Phước – Phước Tân would only supply 1.89 million m³, far below the 6.4 million m³ needed for three major projects:
Long Thành International Airport
Biên Hòa – Vũng Tàu Expressway
Ring Road 3 of Ho Chi Minh City
These infrastructure projects are under urgent deadlines for completion in 2025.
Stone processing at the Tam Phước – Phước Tân cluster for the Biên Hòa – Vũng Tàu Expressway project. Photo: Hoàng Lộc
Proposal: Allow operations while completing legal procedures until Dec 31, 2025
To address these issues, Đồng Nai Province has proposed that the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment allow companies to continue mining, processing, and operating on land already licensed and compensated for, but not yet fully leased, from now until December 31, 2025. The output from these areas would be exclusively used for key southern transportation projects.
During this period, the Department of Agriculture and Environment will:
Assist businesses in overcoming land-related legal obstacles.
Ensure that they complete land lease procedures in accordance with regulations.
Handle any administrative violations.
Ensure payment of fees such as mining rights, taxes, land rental, and other legal obligations.
Project investors and contractors have already estimated the required volume of materials for 2025. Based on these estimates, the Provincial People’s Committee issued allocation plans per quarry and per project. However, due to legal hurdles in land use, mining operations remain restricted, preventing materials from reaching construction sites at the desired pace.
Source:
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