Community Sustainable Development Planning. The DoM proposes to establish a process of Community Sustainable Development Planning (CSDP) for all major mining projects. It is proposed that the CSDP: • be a plan for the sustainable development of mine-affected communities or project area communities through the different stages of the mining project cycle; Lihir Management Company Limited December 31, 2004 Lihir Gold Mine — Mine Closure Plan Update 2004 • be formally integrated with the provincial, district and local-level planning and budgeting process in the host province under the joint supervision of the Department of Planning and Rural Development and the Department of Mining; • be a multi-stakeholder process involving all of the primary stakeholders involved in the development of a major mining project. (the national government, the provincial government, the project district and LLG, project area communities, civil society groups and the mining company). • be coordinated by the national government through a Development Planning Committee (DPC) for each major mining project area. It is proposed that the CSDPs should be a rolling 5-year plan which is subject to annual review and should also be based on a budgetary process which clearly matches planned expenditures with forecast revenues. Developers will be expected to provide specific inputs to the process which are either based on its own plans and projections or on its commitments under the Mining Development Contract, the Development Forum, or an approved Environmental Impact Statement. These specific inputs are listed below: • A rolling 5-year forecast model of the total amount of revenue which is expected to accrue to the Project Area, based on projected mine output, project commodity prices, and the benefit-sharing agreements which have been negotiated through the Development Forum; • A rolling 5-year plan for expenditures within the project area under the Tax Credit Scheme, including a justification for such expenditures; • A rolling 5-year forecast of the amount of revenue which is expected to accrue to a host provincial government, for use outside the mining project area, and plans for any Tax Credit Scheme expenditures made outside the project area (but within the province), in order to inform the relevant provincial, district and local-level plans. • Business development plans, training and localisation plans, • Special provision for relocation and resettlement plans, food security plans, AIDS awareness plans and any other plans for th...
