The Uttarakhand Environment Protection and Pollution Control Board notifies all the stakeholders as under before taking any legal action against wrong doers regarding breach of condition or legal requirements under the Environment Protection Laws. The object of this notice is to alert people for improvement as early as possible, so that subsequent hard action may be avoided.
1.All Sources of water consumption including pipeline, bore well, tanker, canal etc. and total water being used from all such sources shall be informed to UEPPCB immediately. Effluent discharge from ETP, CETP etc shall be through flow meter indicating correct quantity being discharged.
2.Increased or new production and increased wastes generation exceeding the CTE (NOC) and CCA (COP / COR) limits shall be informed to UEPPCB with necessary amendment application immediately.
3.Effluent discharge only from authorized points of ETP, CETP are permitted. Any other discharge, bypass, leakage, spillage, transfer or transport from other points are unauthorized and therefore they shall be checked, removed or stopped. Outside or underground discharge by zero discharge units is not at all permitted.
4.Where treatment of wastes is not possible or not giving any desired or legally ACCEPTABLE result, the process or product shall be changed or stopped and informed to UEPPCB immediately, such untreatable or untreated wastes shall not be discharged in any common facility like CETP etc. or any other places.
5.Handling, transfer transport, dumping, burying or burning (incineration) of any hazardous, bio-medical or municipal wastes shall be carried out at authorized premises and within time limits only. Transporting, throwing, dumping or burning of such wastes at public places or unauthorized premises shall be checked, removed or stopped.
6.To reduce air pollution, only authorized fuel shall be used and all APCM shall be operated efficiently. Non-operation of APCM including scrubber, column, condenser, flare, vent cooler, local exhaust ventilation etc. shall be checked and stopped.
7.Vigilance (surprise checking) teams may visit the premises to monitor the compliance of the conditions as mentioned in consent order. Violations if any will be identified by them in addition to routine checks by concerned officers.
The only wrong doers are warned. The breach of conditions or illegal activities found during above checking may attract dire consequences including closure or other legal proceedings. All other law abiding units shall continue to enjoy their rights of business and good infrastructural facilities provided by the State Government.
