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Pursuing the report of the visiting officer, following needs to be clarified: 1. The industry was in operation and is engaged in process of auto blacking after pickling using HCL, which is contrary to the decision no. 1 of the personal hearing 2. The industry has installed oil fired furnace of capacity 02 MTD along with water scrubber as APCD, however it has not been reported , whether the same was in operation or operationable condition or not or whether the arrangements as decided for the APCD in the personal hearing has been complied with or not. 3. There are no comments from the visiting officer regarding the lifting of sludge, collected in the collection tank to the TSDF nimbua or not and authorization to be applied by the industry under the HWM Rules, 2016 for the same. 4. There are no comments from the visiting officer on the whether The industry has obtained revised lifting schedule with the CETP operator and whether it has taken written assurance from the operator. …………Accordingly the application were reverted to RO to submit reply of the above observations…..
Now RO has obtained reply from industry in this regard and submitted reply of above observations as under: - 1. The industry representative submitted that the industry is using HCL as per the suitability of chemical for the metal to be electroplated. 2. The industry has provided water scrubber as APCD with the furnace which was operational during the visit. The industry has provided necessary arrangements along with energy meter with the APCD. 3. The industry is lifting the sludge collected in the collection tank to the CETP only, after mixing it with effluent to be lifted. The industry has not applied for varied Authorization under Hazardous waste management rules, 2016. 4. The industry has given assurance in written to get the effluent lifted 2-3 times in a month. Submitted, please………Considering, the above reply, it can be inferred that the industry was refrained from using the HCL as cleaning agent, however it has been keep on using the same without making disposal arrangement of the same with authorized re-processor. Further, since the industry has made effluent lifting agreement @ 10,000 L/month with CETP operator, the assurance of industry to lift effluent 2-3 times in a month is not satisfactory. If approve, show cause notice for refusal of consent to operate under the Water Act and Air Act may be issued to the industry with opportunity of personal hearing before SEE, ZO (Competent Authority), to decide the application.
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