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Sir, the industry is a large scale orange category unit and was granted consent to operate under the Water Act, 1974 and under the Air Act, 1981 both valid upto 19/01/2024 for the manufacturing of Round, Flat, CTD, Bars, Patra @ 666 MTD.
Now, the industry has applied for obtaining renewal of consent to operate under the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981 with requisite documents.
In order to verify the facts, the industry was visited by RO on 12.12.2023 and it was reported as under: 1. The industry was in operation during visit & engaged in manufacturing of Round, Flat CTD Bars, Patra. 2. The industry has installed 02 no. rolling mills of capacity 12 Ton/hr and 20 Ton/hr. each of the rolling mill has 2 no. reverberatory furnace, out of which one reverberatory furnace is standby. 3. Stack emission sample was collected from the port hole of stack during visit on 12.12.2023 and as per the analysis report SPM is reported as 72 mg/Nm3 against the prescribed standard of 150 mg/Nm3. 4. The industry has provided wet scrubber as APCD with the rolling mill. The industry has provided 2 no. wet scrubber as APCD (out of which one wet scrubber is standby) followed by a common stack. 5. The industry has provided separate energy meters with APCDs of rolling mill of capacity 12 TPH & 20 TPH, readings of which were cross checked w.r.t connected load and power consumption and found in order. 6. The industry has no source of trade effluent generation. Cooling water is re-circulated & only domestic effluent is discharged into sewer. 7. The industry has installed 2 no. DG sets of capacities 380 KVA each, which are equipped with canopies and adequate stack heights. It has already obtained permission from PWRDA for ground water extraction on dated 26.05.2021. It is pertinent to mention here that MoEF/CC vide notification no. SO 2215 (E) dated 07.06.2024 has exempted stand-alone rolling or re-rolling mills from obtaining Environmental Clearance under EIA Notification, 2006.
In view of the above, it is recommended that 'consent to operate' under the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 may be renewed upto 31/03/2029 with suitable conditions as per policy of the Board, please. (Category - Orange, Large) (Competency - CEE)
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