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Ques:What are important Environmental Laws in the Country?

Ques:What are the activities of the Chattisgarh Environment Board?

Ans: Prevention and control of water pollution and maintaining or restoring the wholesomeness of water by treating sewage, industrial effluents etc., protecting / conserving natural waters to statutory norms and reducing, recycling, reusing and safe-disposing solid wastes conforming to statutory norms.

Prevention and control of water pollution and maintaining or restoring the wholesomeness of water by treating sewage, industrial effluents etc., protecting / conserving natural waters to statutory norms and reducing, recycling, reusing and safe-disposing solid wastes conforming to statutory norms.
Prevention, control and abatement of air pollution.
Protection and improvement of environment and matters connected there with.
Conservation and enrichment of natural resources.
Issuance of NOC for 30 types of activities/projects requiring Environmental Clearance and Consent for establishment.
Conduction of Public Hearing for 30 types of activities/projects requiring Environmental Clearance.
Issuance of Consent to operate and periodic renewals.
Assessment of Water Cess and collection of Water Cess.
Inventorization and management of Hazardous Wastes and issuance of authorization.
Inventorization and management of Bio-Medical Wastes and issuance of authorization.
Inventorization and management of Batteries.
Inventorization and management of Recycled Plastics.
Management of Municipal Solid Wastes and issuance of authorization.
Environmental Statement.
Attending Public complaints.
Initiating legal actions against defaulting industries.

Industrial/Institutional Pollution Prevention Programme

Inventorization of industries and institutions including industrial estates having pollution potential.
Preparation of Action Plan for prevention/control of pollution in streams due to discharge of sewage and municipal solid wastes etc.
Preparation of Action Plan for prevention/control of air pollution from industries.
Identification of critically polluted areas and preparation of Action Plan.
Evolving economically feasible and reliable methods of treatment of sewage, trade effluent, and air pollutant etc.
Evolving methods of utilization of sewage and trade effluent and its disposal.
Interaction with the Transport Authorities and Police Department for vehicular pollution control and assessment of vehicular pollution.
Interaction with the local authorities for noise pollution control and assessment of noise pollution from different sources.
Preparation of Environmental Status Report of State and preparation of Action Plan.
Promotion of pollution prevention in small scale industries by promoting, adoption of clean technology, better work practices and energy conservation techniques.
Preparation of Zoning Atlas for sitting of industries based on environmental consideration in various Districts of the State.
Other sector specific programme relating to prevention and control of pollution.

Monitoring of Environmental Parameters

Collection of samples and analysis of natural water bodies & lakes, industrial effluent and sewage.
Monitoring of industrial emission, ambient air quality, monitoring of urban and industrial premises.
Analysis of Soil Samples, Solid Wastes, Hazardous Wastes and Bio-Medical Wastes.
Monitoring of noise level and vehicle emission.
Monitoring of under ground water quality.
Monitoring of chemical accidents.
Bio-Monitoring and Task specific monitoring.

Other Activities

Training to NGOs and others.
Mass awareness programme.
State level co-ordination activities.
Organizing administrative and community support to achieve the goals.
Computerizing administrative works, improving decision making in the Board, effectively and quickly addressing public grievances and making the Board transparent and accessible by releasing environmental quality information to the public.

Ques: What do you mean by Water and Air Consent? Who are required to obtain consent from Board?

Ques:Is any fee required for obtaining consent? What do you mean by Consent Fee?

Ques:What is the consent and consent renewal fee?

Ans: Consent Fee

S.No.	Industries having an investment of	Rupees
01	More than Rupees 1000 Crores	10,00,000
02	More than Rupees 500 Crores but Upto Rupees 1000 Crores	5,00,000
03	More than Rupees 200 Crores but Upto Rupees 500 Crores	2,50,000
04	More than Rupees 100 Crores but Upto Rupees 200 Crores	1,50,000
05	More than Rupees 50 Crores but Upto Rupees 100 Crores	1,00,000
06	More than Rupees 10 Crores but Upto Rupees 50 Crores	80,000
07	More than Rupees 3 Crores but Upto Rupees 10 Crores	60,000
08	More than Rupees 2 Crores but Upto Rupees 3 Crores	3,000
09	More than Rupees 1 Crores but Upto Rupees 2 Crores	2,000
10	Upto Rupees 1 Crore	1,000

Annual Consent Renewal Fee

S.No.	Industries having an investment of	Rupees
01	More than Rupees 1000 Crores	2,50,000
02	More than Rupees 500 Crores but Upto Rupees 1000 Crores	1,50,000
03	More than Rupees 200 Crores but Upto Rupees 500 Crores	1,00,000
04	More than Rupees 100 Crores but Upto Rupees 200 Crores	75,000
05	More than Rupees 50 Crores but Upto Rupees 100 Crores	50,000
06	More than Rupees 10 Crores but Upto Rupees 50 Crores	35,000
07	More than Rupees 3 Crores but Upto Rupees 10 Crores	25,000
08	More than Rupees 2 Crores but Upto Rupees 3 Crores	2,000
09	More than Rupees 1 Crores but Upto Rupees 2 Crores	1,000
10	Upto Rupees 1 Crore

3. Annual consent renewal fee and consent fee chargeable from Local bodies extracting water from natural resources and discharging effluent into streams shall be as under :-

01	Municipal Corporation	Rupees 3,000
02	Municipal council	Rupees 2,000
03	Nagar Panchayat	Rupees 1,000
04	Other	Rupees 500

The above Consent fee and Consent Renewal fee is applicable from the date of publication of this notification in the Chhattisgarh gazette i.e. 4th July, 2003.

Note: The above mentioned consent and consent renewal fee should be deposited separately for water consent and air consent.

Ques: What do you mean by investment?

Ques: Is there any prescribed form for consent application?

Ques: Where the consent application forms are available? the price of application form?

Ans: The Water consent and Air consent application forms are available at Regional Offices of the Board. The application form may be obtained from the Regional Offices of the Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board on payment of Rs. 15/- for Water consent and Rs. 15/- for Air consent. The application forms may also be obtain through post by submitting a demand draft in favour of 'Regional Officer, Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board', payable at either Korba, Raigarh, Ambikapur. The addresses of the Regional Offices of the Board are as follows:-

S.No.	Name of Regional Office	Address
01.	KORBA	Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board Near Tehsil Office Rampur, Korba H.I.G. 21 and 22 Distt.-Korba (C.G.) Pin 495677 Office :07759-222370
02.	AMBIKAPUR	Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board Bajrang Bhawan Namnakala, Ambikapur Dist: Sarguja (C.G.) Office :07774-236438
03.	RAIGARH	Chhattisgarh Environment Conservation Board T.V. Tower Road, Raigarh Dist: Raigarh (C.G.) office :07762-226569
04.	RAIPUR	New HIG-9, 10, 11, Housing Board Colony, Tatibandh, Raipur (C.G.) 91-0771-2573897 (O))
05.	BILASPUR	Vyapar Vihar, Near Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Park, Bilaspur (C.G.) ( 91-07752-261172 (O), 91-07752-270160 (O) )
06.	DURG-BHILAI	Bunglow No. 5,32 Bunglow, Bhilai (C.G.) ( 91-0788-2242964 (O), 91-0788-2211898 (O) 91-0788-2241554 (Fax))
07.	JAGDALPUR	HIG-5, Aghanpur Colony, Dharampra, Jagdalpur (C.G.) ( 91-07782-229367 (O), 91-07782-229046 (Fax)

Ques:Whether consent renewal fee has to be paid annually?

Ques:What do you mean by Environmental Clearance? Which type of activities/projects required Environmental Clearance?

Ans : The clearance accorded by Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India for expansion or modernization of any activity (if pollution load is to exceed the existing one) or a new project listed in schedule I of the Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 1994 is known as Environmental Clearance.

Following thirty types of activities/projects are required Environmental Clearance:-

Nuclear power and related project such as Heavy Water Plants, nuclear fuel complex, rare earths.
River Valley projects including hydel power, major irrigation and their combination including flood control.
Ports, harbours, Airports (except minor ports and harbours).
Petroleum Refineries including crude and product pipelines.
Chemical Fertilizers (Nitrogenous and phosphatic other than single super phosphate).
Pesticides (Technical)
Petrochemical complexes (Both Olefinic and Aromatic) and Petro-Chemical intermediates such as DMT, Caprolactam, LAB etc. and production of basic plastics such as LDPE, HDPE, PP, PVC.
Bulk drugs and pharmaceuticals.
Exploration for oil and gas and their production, transportation and storage.
Synthetic Rubber.
Asbestos and Asbestos products
Hydro cyanic acid and its derivatives.
(a) Primary metallurgical industries (such as production of Iron and Steel, Aluminium, Copper, Zinc, Lead and Ferro Alloys).

(b) Electric arc furnaces (Mini Steel plants).

Chlor-alkali industry.
Integrated plant complex including manufacture of resins and basic raw material required in the manufacture of paints.
Viscose Staple fibre and filament yarn.
Storage batteries integrated with manufacture of oxides of lead and lead antimony alloy.
All tourism projects between 200m-500 meters of High Tide Line or at locations with an elevation of more than 1000 meters with investment of more than Rs. 5 Crores.
Thermal Power Plants
Mining Project (major minerals) with leases more than 5 hectares.
Highway Projects except projects relating to improvement work including widening and strengthening of roads with marginal land acquisition along the existing alignments provided it does not pass through ecologically sensitive areas such as National Parks, Sanctuaries, Tiger reserves, Reserve forests.
Tarred Roads in Himalayas and/or Forest areas.
Distilleries
Raw Skins and Hides
Pulp, paper and newsprint
Dyes
Cement
Foundries (individual)
Electroplating
Meta amino phenol