Energy Sector Cleanup and Land Reclamation Project

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The Kosovo Energy Sector Clean-Up and Land Reclamation Project aims to: (a) address environmental legacy issues related to open dumping of ashes on land; (b) enable the Kosovo Energy Corporation (KEK) to free land for community development purposes currently taken by overburden materials and enable KEK to remove Kosovo A ash dump; and(c) build capacity in KEK for continued clean-up and environmentally good practice mining operations. The Project has four components: Component A will prepare the Mirash open pit mine to receive and store ash from the Kosovo A Thermal Power Plant and the ash removed from Kosovo A's open ash dump. Component B will support the full removal of ash and overburden materials from the Kosovo A ash storage facility; transportation of these materials to the disposal site in the Mirash mine; and proper backfilling of the mine prepared under Component A. Component C will reclaim about 6.5 km2 (650 ha) of land through reshaping and re-cultivating the overburden dumps in the South Field and locations west of the Bar& mine. Component D provides project implementation support to KEK.