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Statutory Compliance Management
Statutory compliance means adhering to rules and regulations. In the context of EIA/EC statutory compliance is related with getting six monthly environmental compliance report, necessary consent from pollution control board, N.A. permission from concern departments. EIA follow up commonly referred to the process of monitoring, evaluation and validation of outcomes of EIA. All the necessary statutory clearance should be obtained and submitted before start of any construction activity and the completion of construction activity.
Services offered under the umbrella of STATUTROY COMPLIANCE MANAGEMENT include
Statutory Compliance (Six Monthly Compliance Reports): It is mandatory to submit a Six-Monthly Compliance Report to show the status & compliance of all the Conditions mentioned in Environment clearance Letter, along with monitoring of various Environmental Parameters (as per CPCB Norms). It includes a compilation of the status of different general and specific Compliance Environmental Clearance (EC) conditions. As per EIA Notification 2006 proponent needs to submit half-yearly compliance reports in respect of the stipulated EC conditions in hard and soft copies to the ROs/SPCBs concerned on 1st June and 1st December of each calendar year. Fulfilling EC post-compliance conditions is crucial in maintaining the validity of the EC. Therefore, the project proponent must ensure that the environmental mitigation measures described in EC compliance and Environmental Management Plan are being implemented without fail during the construction and operation phase. This requires due diligence from the end of the proponent as well as the assistance of environmental experts. The agency conducting EIA must be fully conscious of environmental management and have experience in handling any crisis.
Environmental due diligence (Consent to Establish, Consent to Operate): Any industry, operation or process or an extension and addition thereto, which is likely to discharge sewerage or trade effluent into the environment or likely to emit any air pollution into the atmosphere will have to obtain consent of the State Pollution Control Board under the provisions of Water (P & CP) Act, 1974 and Air (P & CP) Act, 1981. Similarly, any industry / process generating, storing, transporting, disposing or handling hazardous waste as defined in schedule 1 and 2 of Hazardous waste (Handing and Management) Rules, 1989, as amended in 2000 are required to obtain authorization from MPCB under the said rules. The medical institutions generating biomedical waste as defined in Biomedical Waste (M & H) Rules, 1989 are required to obtain Authorisation under the said rules from MPCB.
- Consent to Establish (CTE): This consent is to be obtained prior to establishing any industry or process. The validity of consent to establish is up to 5 years or up to commissioning of the unit.
- Consent to Operate (CTO): This consent is to be obtained before starting any production or activity. The validity of consent to operate depends upon the pollution index criteria set by pollution control boards.
- Regulatory Compliance: From IV and Form V submission to MPCB.