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Submission of Environmental Statement

 

Submission of Environmental Statement

Every person carrying on an industry, operation or process requiring consent under Section 25 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 or under section 21 of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 or both, or authorization under the Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 1989 shall submit an environmental statement for the financial year ending the 31st March in Form V to the concerned State Pollution Control Board on or before the thirtieth day of September every year, beginning 1993.

Note:
This requirement for the environmental statement was inserted through Rule 2 of the Environment (Protection) Second Amendment & Rules, 1992 vide G.S.R. 329(E), dated 13.03.92.

Subsequently, the word audit was substituted by the words statement through Rule 2(a)(i) of the Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules, 1993 through notification G.S.R. 386(E), dated 22.4.93. Even the deadline for the submission of this report came from this amendment.

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