The Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change [MEFCC] on September 05, 2022, notifies the Environment (Protection) Second Amendment Rules, 2022 to further amend the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986.
The amendments are as follows-
•Table I which specifies Timelines for compliance (Non-retiring units) of SO2 emissions and others has been amended.
•For “ (ii)” the (ii) (a) The thermal power plant declared to retire before the date as specified in column (6) of Table-I shall not be required to meet the specified norms for parameters other than SO2 emissions in case such plants submit an undertaking to CPCB and CEA for exemption on ground of retirement of such plant:
Provided that such plants shall be levied environmental compensation from the dates as specified in column (4) of table –I, at the rate of rupees 0.40 per unit of electricity generated in case their operation is continued beyond the date as specified in the undertaking;
(ii) (b) The thermal power plant declared to retire before the date as specified in column (7) of Table-I shall not be required to meet the specified norms for SO2 emissions in case such plants submit an undertaking to CPCB and CEA for exemption on the ground of retirement of such plant:
Provided that such plants shall be levied environmental compensation from the dates as specified in column (5) of the table –I, at the rate of rupees 0.40 per unit of electricity generated in case their operation is continued beyond the date as specified in the undertaking, shall be substituted.
•Table II Environmental Compensation (Rs. per unit electricity generated) and Non-Compliant operation beyond the Timeline has been amended.
They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
[Notification No. G.S.R. 682(E)]
