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20848154

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2023-01-10 15:34:00.354

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It is submitted that the rice sheller was granted consent to establish under the provisions of the Water Act, 1974 & the Air Act, 1981 vide no. CTE/Fresh/SGR/2022/18271405 dated 28/03/2022, valid upto 27/03/2023, for manufacturing of Sorted raw rice (with dryer) @ 2.0 TPH by processing of Paddy @ 3.0 TPH, as raw material, with certain conditions mentioned therein. Now, the industry has applied for obtaining fresh consents to operate under the Water Act, 1974 & the Air Act, 1981, for production of sorted raw rice (with dryer) @ 2.0 TPH by processing of Paddy @ 3.0 TPH, as raw material. The industry has deposited consents fee of Rs. 84840/- (Rs. 84000/- water consent fee + Rs. 840/- penalty fee) vide UTR no. 828728838 dated 31/12/2022 under the Water Act, 1974 & Rs. 85340/- (Rs. 84000/- air consent fee + Rs. 840/- air penalty fee + Rs. 500/- application form fee) vide UTR no. 792396342 dated 31/12/2021 under the Air Act, 1981, against the value of gross fixed assets of Rs. 161.68 lacs, as per CA certificate as on 30/11/2022, which is adequate upto 30/09/2032. The industry has also submitted the completion certificate of cyclone separator as APCD attached with paddy cleaner of dryer section. The Govt. of Punjab, Department of Science, Technology & Environment vide notification no 10/48/2004-STE-(4) / 932 dated 15/10/2013 has notified siting guidelines for new/existing rice sheller unit, which is reproduced as under for any expansion / modernization in the existing rice sheller unit.“Sortex machine is permitted to be installed in the existing rice shelling units / saila plants irrespective of siting guidelines, provided they have obtained consents under the Water Act, 1974 & the Air Act, 1981 and there is no increase in the consented capacity and polluted load.” To verify the compliance of consent conditions earlier granted to the industry & the code of practice, the industry was visited by undersigned on 10/01/2023 and it was observed as under:- 1.      The industry was in operation. 2.      The industry has installed the machinery in its premises for the production of sorted raw rice with dryer. The industry has installed dryer within its premises. 3.      The industry has covered all the processing sheds. 4.      The industry has provided brick paved road from main gate of the industry to the rice room/husk area for the movements of vehicles. The repair of the same was under process. 5.      The industry has provided cyclones as APCD along with stack of adequate height to control the process emissions from shelling section and paddy cleaner of dryer section. All the dust emitting points were connected to the cyclones and have provided sampling arrangements for collection of stack emission sample. 6.      The industry has provided brick wall of 10 feet height in front of the discharge point of rice husk area and the length of aforesaid brick wall is 35' on each side of the rice husk discharge point. 7.      The industry has provided jalli of 5 feet height above the brick wall in front of the discharge point of rice husk area. 8.      The industry has no source of trade effluent generation and the industry has provided septic tank for treatment of domestic effluent to be generated from toilets / washrooms. It has also made plantation along boundary wall to utilize treated domestic effluent after septic tank. 9.      The industry is complying with the code of practice notify by the Govt. of Punjab, Deptt. of Science, Technology & Environment vide notification no 10/48/2004-STE-(4) / 932 dated 15/10/2013 and conditions of NOC earlier granted to it under the provisions of the Water Act, 1974 & the Air Act, 1981. The competency for grant of consents to the rice shellers with or without dryer lies with the Environmental Engineer of the Regional Office. 10.   It is further added here that the Board vide its letter no. SEE(HQ-II)2018/9982-10003 date 27/03/2018 as requested to strictly follow the consent validity criteria for grant of consents to red/orange/green categories industries for 05 years, 10 years & 15 years, respectively. <span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; background: white; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">In view of above, it is recommended that fresh consents to operate under the Water Act, 1974 & the Air Act, 1981 may be granted to the industry upto 30/09/2032, for manufacturing of Sorted Raw Rice (With Dryer) @ 2.0 TPH by processing of Paddy @ 3.0 TPH, as raw material, subject to the suitable conditions as per the policy of the Board and following special conditions that the industry shall get its APCD monitored from Board’s lab & shall submit analysis report to the Board within two month, after commissioning of the unit in the coming season.

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RO AEE Vipan Kumar