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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 the Air Act, 1981 both valid upto 31/03/2025 for the manufacturing of Steel Billets/ Ingots/ Hand tool flats & Industrial Rounds @ 128 MTD.
Further, it was granted ‘consent to establish'/ (NOC) under the Water Act, 1974 and Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 vide no. CTE/Exp/LDH1/2023/21410374 dated 11/04/2023 valid upto 10/04/2024 for the manufacturing of MS Scrap, sponge Iron, Cast Iron, Silicon Manganese & Aluminium Shots @ 420 MTD.
Now, the industry has applied for obtaining varied 'consent to operate' under the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981 with requisite documents through OCMMS.
In order to verify the facts, the industry was visited by RO on 14.05.2024 and it was reported as under:
1. The industry was in operation during visit.
2. The industry has installed induction furnace of capacity 30 TPH.
3. The industry has installed the side hood with Spark arrester & Bag Filter House as per design of PSCST, Chandigarh as APCD as per design of PSCST, Chandigarh with adequate stack height.
4. It has provided adequate sampling arrangements and stack height.
5. Adequate suction was observed at the side hood.
6. The industry has also submitted adequacy cum completion certificate for APCD from the PSCST, Chandigarh vide no. 712 dated 07.03.2024.
7. The industry has appointed dedicated staff for operation / maintenance of APCD / collection system and following the SOPs of PSCST.
8. The industry has installed the one concast finishing machine and one rolling mill as per NOC granted to it.
9. The air emission samples were collected from the 30 TPH induction furnace of the industry during visit and as per analysis report, the results are within the prescribed limit of the board i.e. 11 mg/Nm3 against the limits of 150 mg/Nm3.
10. There is no source of trade effluent only domestic effluent is generated, which is discharged onto land for plantation after septic tank.
11. The industry has installed two DG sets of capacity 140 KVA & 600 KVA with canopy and adequate stack height.
12. Point wise compliance of Environmental Clearance conditions is attached herewith.
13. The industry has obtained permission for ground water extraction @ 1350 KL/month vide permission no. PWRDA/01/2022/L1/292 dated 07.01.2022.
In view of the above, it is recommended that 'consent to operate' under the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 may be granted to the industry upto 31/03/2027 with suitable conditions as per policy of the Board and special conditions that the industry shall continue to comply with conditions of Environmental Clearance granted to it under EIA Notification, 2006 and the industry shall complete the plantation area i.e. 33 % of the premises within this monsoon.
(Category - Orange, large) (Competency - CEE).
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