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Government of Tamil Nadu
Abstract
Environment Control – Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 1994 as amended on 10.4.97 – Expert Committee to clear the Thermal Power projects Constituted – Orders – Issued.
ENVIRONMENT & FORESTS (EC.III) DEPARTMENT
G.O.(Ms.)No.373 Dated 29.12.98
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- 1. From the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India letter No.45011/96-IA.III(T) dated 19.5.97
2. G.O.(Ms.)No.487, Environment & Forests Department, dated 22.12.97
3. Letter (Ms.) No75, Environment & forests Department, dated 21.3.98.
Read also:
From the Chairman, Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Chennai-32 letter No.T.43723/97 dated 28.10.97 and 6.6.98.
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ORDER:
The Government of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests in its letter dated 19.5.97 stated that the following amendments to Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 1994, (published in the extraordinary Gazette of India dated 10.4.97 Part II, Section 3, sub-section (ii)):-
S.O.318(E) i) Public Hearing has been made mandatory for all the projects covered in Schedule I of the Environmental Impact Assessment Notification, 1994 from 10.4.97.
ii) Powers have been delegated to State Department of Environment for issue of Environmental Clearance to those categories of thermal power plants which are listed in Schedule I of the EIA Notification of 10.4.97. The amended Notification will apply to all projects which are received after 10th April, 1997.
2. In consonance with the orders issued by the Government of India in para 1 above the Government of Tamil Nadu have issued orders constituting public hearing panels in G.O.(Ms.)No.487, Environment and Forests, dated 22.12.97 and in letter (Ms.) No.75, Environment and Forests, dated 21.3.98.
3. In respect of Thermal Power Plant, the Government of India in their Notification, published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part II, Section 3, sub-section (ii), dated 10.4.97 S.O.319 (E) Schedule I have specified the following category of Thermal Power Plans requiring environmental clearance from the State Government.
I. Co-generation Captive Plants:
i) Co-Generation Plants - All Co-generation plants irrespective of the installed capacities.
ii) Captive Power Plants - Upto 250 MW (both coal and gas/naphtha based) coming up separately and not along the main industry.
II. Utility Projects:
i) Coal based plants upto 500 MW using fluidized bed technology subject to sensitive areas restrictions:
ii) Coal based Power Plants upto 250 MW using conventional technologies.
iii) Gas/Naphtha based plants upto 500 MW.
4. The Government of India have also stated in the said Notification dated 10.4.97 that any project proposed to be located within the radius of twenty five km. boundary of reserved forests, ecologically sensitive area which may include National parks, Sanctuaries, Biosphere reserves, critically polluted area and within fifty kms of inter-state boundary shall require environmental clearance from the Central Government.
5. In the said Notification Schedule II the procedure for seeking environmental clearance and in Schedule III the composition of the Expert Committee to be constituted by the State Governments for Environmental Impact Assessment have been specified.
6. The Government of Tamil Nadu in consultation with the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board constituted on Expert Committee with the following members to evaluate and assess the application along with the No Objection Certificate from the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board in respect of proposals seeking environmental clearance for installation of power plants of the size mentioned in para 3 above.
Chairman:
Thiru N.R. Krishnan, I.A.S. (Retired),
Former Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests,
Environmental Department, Government of India, New Delhi.
Committee Members:
1. ECO-SYSTEM MANAGEMENT AND ECOLOGY
Thiru John Joseph,
Retired Principal Chief Conservator of Forests,
(M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai)
2. AIR/WATER POLLUTION CONTROL
Dr. Pitchai,
Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
3. WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
Prof. A. Mohanakrishnan,
Chief Engineer (Retd.), Public Works Department,
Member, Cauvery Advisory Committee,
Secretariat, Chennai-9
4. FLORA/FAUNA CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT
Director,
C.A.S. Marine Biology,
Annamalai University, Chidambaram
5. LAND USE PLANNING
Dr. T. Natarajan,
Director,
Institute of Remote Sensing,
Anna University, Chennai.
6. SOCIAL SCIENCES/REHABILITATION
Dr. Paul Appasamy,
Madras Institute of Development Studies,
Chennai
7. PROJECT APPRAISAL
Director,
School of Energy,
Anna University, Chennai
8. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Director of Public Health & Preventive
Medicine (By designation), Chennai.
9. SUBJECT AREA SPECIALISTS
Dr. S.R. Paranjothi,
Head of Department,
School of Electrical Engineering,
Anna University, Chennai
10. REPRESENTIVES OF NGOs/PERSONS CONCERNED WITH ENVIRON-MENTAL ISSUES
Dr. Nandita Krishna,
C.P.R. Environmental Foundation,
Chennai
7. The above committee shall be treated as a First Class Committee.
(BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR)
K.S. SRIPATHI
SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT
To
The Chairman,
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Chennai-32
The Member Secretary,
Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board, Chennai-32
The Member Secretary,
Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority, Chennai-8
The Secretary to Government, Energy Department, Chennai-9
The Secretary to Government, Industries Department, Chennai-9
The Commissioner of Town & Country Planning, Chennai-2
The Director of Environment, Chennai-83
The Chairman, Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, Chennai-2
The Chairman, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board, Chennai-2
The Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests,
Government of India, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110 003.
All District Collectors
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