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It is intimated that the industry was issued show cause notice for revocation / cancellation of consent to operate granted under the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981 with an opportunity of personal hearing before the Chief Environmental Engineer on 18.07.2024, wherein it was decided that the consent to operate under the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981 obtained under auto renewal system be revoked. The proceedings of same were under approval.
Now, the industry has applied for obtaining varied consent to operate under the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981 with requisite documents under Medium scale.
It is submitted that the industry was granted consent to operate under the Water Act, 1974 and under the Air Act, 1981 dated 20/06/2023 both valid upto 30/06/2024 for the manufacturing of Bicycle Rims @ 2500 Numbers/Day. Further, in reference to the letter dated 15.12.2023 submitted by the industry regarding disposing off DG sets of capacity 437.5 KVA & 62.5 KVA and installation of new DG set of capacity 625 KVA, the RO had requested the industry to apply for obtaining varied 'Consent to Operate' under the Air Act, 1981. Now, the industry has applied for obtaining varied consent to operate under the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981 with requisite documents as Medium scale.
The industry was visited by RO on 16.07.2024 and it was reported as under: 1. The industry was in operation during visit & engaged in manufacturing of leaf spring. 2. The industry has not generated any trade effluent only domestic effluent is being discharged into sewer. 3. The industry has installed 3 no. FO based hardening furnaces with adequate stack heights. 4. The industry has installed 2 no. FO based tempering furnaces of capacity 25 MTD with adequate stack heights. 5. The industry has installed 1 no. electric shot blast machine with adequate stack and inbuilt bag filter house as APCD. 6. The industry has installed 1 no. LPG based parabolic end heating furnace of capacity 25 MTD with adequate stack height. 7. The industry has installed 1 no. LPG based thermopack of capacity 25 MTD with adequate stack height. 8. The industry has installed 1 no. electric paint booth with water curtain as APCD and adequate stack height. 9. It has installed 2 no. LPG based eye rolling end heating furnaces of capacity 25 MTD each with adequate stack heights. 10. The industry has installed 1no. DG set of capacity 625 KVA, equipped with canopy and adequate stack height. 11. The industry has changed its scale from small to medium and installed shot blasting machine. So, it has applied varied 'Consent to Operate' under the Water Act, 1974 and Air Act, 1981. The industry has already obtained permission for ground water extraction from PWRDA.
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 industry upto 31/03/2029 with suitable conditions as per policy of the Board, please. (Category - Red, Medium) (Competency -CEE)
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