Cement, Energy and Environment

- - The following draft notifr cation,vvhich the Central Government proposes to issue under the Environment (Protection)Act, 1986(29 of 1986), is hereby published for the in formation of public likely to be affected thereby; and the notice is hereby given that the said draft. notification shall be taken into consideration on or after the expi ry of a period of thirty days from the date on which this draft has been made available ro publ ic through this website. The comments may be sent to the mail id of Advisor (CP) : hasan-m~ f.:qln ic. in (To be published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part ll, Section 3, Sub-section (i)J GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE NOTIFICATlON New Delhi, --·----April, 2015 G.S.R._ _ (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6 and 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), the Central Government hereby makes the fo llowing rules further to amend the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, namely:- 1. (I ) These rules may be called the Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules. 2015 . (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. 2. In the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, in Schedule -I (i) in existing serial number 5, thermal power plants (water consumption limit) . for the existing entries and entries relating thereto. the fo llowing serial number and entries shall be added. namely:- S(a) Water consumption limit I S.NO . Industry Parameter Standards 1 2 3 4 S(a) Thermnl Water consumption I . A II plants w ith once through cooling Power Plant (OTC) shall install cooling tower(CT) I and achieve speci fi c water consumption max. 4m 3 / MWh within 2 years period 1 87