Procedures under DPR 120/2017 on excavated earth and rocks

The in-depth knowledge of the regulatory framework, starting with the aforementioned decree, its evolution with the Presidential Decree 120/2017 up to the "Guidelines on the application of the discipline for the use of earth and excavated rocks" (approved by resolution 54/2019 of the Council of the National System for Environmental Protection and drawn up by ISPRA in collaboration with the main Regional Environmental Protection Agencies) constitute the indispensable substrate that allows IRIDE to support the Designer in dealing with the entire process of earth management and to draw up the documentary framework required by the articulated sector legislation.

In this sense, it is possible to state that the added value of the services offered by IRIDE lies in the ability to direct the choice of the management model towards those procedures and/or procedural aspects that are the most appropriate to the specific needs of the case examined.

In this context, especially in the case of projects whose implementation is articulated according to several temporal phases and functional lots, the elaboration of an organic framework of the management methods for earth and rocks and excavation is fundamental, i.e. the carrying out of a "due diligence" that leads to the definition of a reference framework within which to place the individual interventions and the relative management methods for the earth produced.
This need has found its concrete formalization in the preparation of the "Utilization Plan - Programmatic Document" which, although drawn up in accordance with the new Presidential Decree 120/2017 Title II, is not limited to the issue of by-products, as would require a slavish application of the aforementioned legislation, but also pays wider attention to the logic of environmental sustainability in terms of resource use, thus providing a unified vision of the entire issue of land management.

Nonetheless, IRIDE supports designers by drawing up characterisation plans for excavated soil and rocks, preliminary plans for the on-site use of excavated soil and rocks not covered by waste regulations, and utilisation plans.