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Exemption from compliance with Section 25 of Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974

Notification No.:  G.S.R. 703(E)

Notification Date: November 12, 2024
 
Relevant Act/Rule:  Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974
 
Relevant Section/Rule: Section 25(1)
 
On November 12, 2024,  the Central Government, in consultation with the Central Pollution Control Board, exempted the following categories of industrial plants from the application of the provisions Section 25(1) of Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.
(a) all industrial plants having pollution index score upto 20 as listed in the Schedule to the notification, subject to condition that such plant shall inform in writing to the State Pollution Control Boards or the Pollution Control Committees; 

(b) all industrial plants which have obtained prior environmental clearance as per the notification of the Government of India in the erstwhile Ministry of Environment and Forests number S.O. 1533(E), dated the 14th September, 2006 issued under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), in respect of previous consent to establish such plant.

Section 25(1) of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 deals with  ‘Restrictions on new outlets and new discharges’. It mandates that  no person shall, without the previous consent of the State Board-
(a) establish or take any steps to establish any industry, operation or process, or any treatment and disposal system or any extension or addition thereto, which is likely to discharge sewage or trade effluent into a stream or well or sewer or on land (such discharge being hereafter in this section referred to as discharge of sewage); or

(b) bring into use any new or altered outlet for the discharge of sewage; or 

(c) begin to make any new discharge of sewage

PROVIDED that a person in the process of taking any steps to establish any industry, operation or process immediately before the commencement of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Act, 1988, for which no consent was necessary prior to such commencement, may continue to do so for a period of three months from such commencement or, if he has made an application for such consent, within the said period of three months, till the disposal of such application.  
Subject to the provisions of the Act and this notification, MoEFCC may further issue necessary standard operating procedures for streamlining implementation of this notification, as deemed appropriate.

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