The Environmental Protection state programme provides for dealing with pollution accumulated as a result of economic and other activities, reducing its pernicious impact on the environment and improving people’s life.
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A package of priority measures to deal with the consequences of pollution and other pernicious impacts on the environment, caused by economic and other activities (hereinafter, priority measures), has been elaborated by the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation.
The 2014 federal budget earmarked 2.94 billion roubles for the Environmental Regulation sub-programme of the Environmental Protection state programme for 2012-2020, to implement priority measures aimed at reclaiming territories polluted for many years by industrial companies that have since been closed down.
These measures include surface rehabilitation of tailing dumps at the Central Ore-dressing Plant of the Solnechny Mining Combine, Khabarovsk Territory; peat bog reclamation and the removal of spilt furnace oil in the Vologda Region; remediation of oil-polluted soil near Mirny, Arkhangelsk Region; disposal of abandoned sludge pits in Chechnya; liquidation of industrial pollution by the Belovo zinc plant, Kemerovo Region; and cleaning storage ponds of acid tar in the Khabarovsk Territory.
The priority measures will dispose of contaminants stocked over the years, reduce the effects of pollution and improve the quality of human life in the affected areas.