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MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND FORESTS NOTIFICATION

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GS-R*SBZ(E).- whereas, for abatement of pollution in general and air quality -particular, various actions are taken by the Government which inter-alia include an integrated approach to strengthen the monitoring and enforcement of emissions standards for both point and non-point sources, supply of fuel as per specifications, etc.
And, whereas National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) have been revisited and revised by the Government in November, 2009 for 12 pollutants which include Sulphur Dioxide (SO*), Nitrogen Dioxide (N02), Particulate Matter less than 10 micron (PMlo), PM2.s,Ozone, Lead, CO, NH3, Benzene, BaP (particulate phase), Arsenic and Nickel. With a growing concern over ambient air quality, public health, the use of cleaner coal and clean coal technologies is required. And, whereas transporting large amounts of ash wastes energy and creates shortages of rail cars, port facilities, problems for power stations, including erosion in parts and materials, difficulty in pulverization, poor emissivity and flame temperature and excessive amounts of fly ash containing large amounts of unburned carbons. And, whereas, in the light of above the Central Government proposes to issue the following draft rules under sub-section (2) of section 3, section 6 and section 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986)) read with rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986. The aforesaid draft rules are hereby published for the information of all persons and organisations likely to be affected thereby; and notice is hereby given that the said draft rules will be taken into consideration by the Central Government on or after the expiry of a period of sixty days from the date on which copies of the Gazette containing this notification are made available to the public;

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whereas of making I And,or objection inperson oroforganisation desirous rules may < - any suggestions respect the proposed draft forward the same for consideration of the Central Government within the period so specified to the Shri R.N. Jindal, Scientist 'El, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Paryavaran Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi- 110510 (email: ram.jindal@nic.in; fax: 011-2436634). Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (2) of section 3, section 6 and section 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 read with rule 5 of the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986 the Centre Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, namely:DRAFT RULES
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(1) These rules may be called the Environment (Protection) Amendment Rules, 2012. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette, ,
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.2. In the Environment (Protection) Rules, 1986, (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 3, for sub-rule (8), the following sub-rule shall be substituted, namely:w

"(8) On and from the 1'' day of January. 2014, the following coal based thermal power plants shall use raw or blended or beneficiated coal with an ash content not e'xceeding thirty four percent and gross calorific value not less than 4000 Kcallkg on daily average basis, namely:(a) any standalone thermal power plant located beyond five hundred " . , kilometers from the pit-head;
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(c) any captive power plant above 100 MW or standalone thermal power plant located in urban area or ecologically sensitive area notified by the Central Government or critically industrial polluted cluster or area irrespective of its distance from pit-head except anb pit-head power plant:
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Provided that any thermal power plant using Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustion or Atmosphere Fluidised Bed Combustion or Pressurized Fluidised Bed Combustion or Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle technologies or any other clean technologies as may be notified by the Central government in the Official Gazette shall be exempted from clauses (a)l (b) and (c). 51.

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(a) 'beneficiated coal' means coal containing gross*calorific value not leg$ than 4000 Kcatika and ash content not exceeding thirty four percent in the raw coal obtained through physical separation or washing process; (b) 'pit-head power plant' means power stations having captive transportation system for its exclusive use for transportation of coal I from the loading point at the mining end upto the uploading point at the power station without using the normal public transportation system.; . . (c) 'ecologically sensitive area means an area whose ecological balance is prone to be easily disturbed, identified and notified by Central Government.;
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(d) 'critically industrial polluted cluster or area' means an industrial area where pollution levels have reached or likely to reach to the critical . . level and which has been identified as such by the Central Government, State Government or Central Pollution Control board or a State Pollution Control Board; and - - ,. , . J' ;, . I(e)' 'urban area' means an area limit of a city having a population of more than 1 million according to the latest census.". J~ , .
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AJAY TYAGI, Jt. Secy. Note : The Principal rules were published in the Gazette of India vide No. S. 0:-&I4 (E), dated the lgth November, 1986 and subsequently amended vide S.O.No. 82 (E), dated 16" February,l987; S.O.No. 64(E), dated 18'~ January, 1988; G.S.R. 931(E), dated 27th ~ctober,1989; S.O. 23(E), dated 16'~ January, 1991; G.S.R. 95(E), dated 12" February, 1992; G.S.R. 329(E), dated 13'~ March, 1992; G.S.R. 562(E), dated 27" May, 1992; G.S.R. 884(E), dated 201h November, 1992; G.S.R. 386 (E), dated 22ndApril,, 1993; G.S.R. 422(E), dated 19'" May, 1993; G.S.R. 801(E), dated 3lSt December, 1993; G.S.R. 320(E), dated 16" March, 1994; G.S.R. 560(E), dated lgth September, 1997; G.S.R. 378(E), dated 30" June, 1998; G.S.R. 7(E), dated 22nd December, 1998; G.S.R. 407(E), dated 31" May, 2001; G.S.R. 826(E), dated 16" , November, 2009; and G.S. R. 513(E), dated 28 th ~ u n e2012. 1 ilp8 . .
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