MEETINGS
OF THE CENTRAL BOARD 3.1 MEETINGS
OF THE BOARD During
the reporting period (i.e. April 1, 2004 to March 31, 2005), four meetings of
the Central Board were held as under:
| S.
No. | Meeting
No. | Date |
Place |
| 1. |
130 |
June
14, 2004 | Delhi |
| 2. |
131 |
September
29, 2004 | Delhi |
| 3. |
132 |
January
4, 2005 | Delhi |
| 4. |
133 |
March
24, 2005 | Delhi |
3.2 MAJOR
DECISIONS TAKEN BY THE BOARD - Draft
National Policy document on Management of Hazardous Waste in the Country
- Strengthening
of CPCB for monitoring of PM2.5 under CIDA/Environment Canada Project
- Protocol
for one time controlled land application of treated post bio-methanated distillery
spent wash as liquid manure
- Approval
of the "Guidelines for disposal of
Bio-Medical Waste generated during
Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP)" prepared by CPCB. - Approval
of National Emission Standards for Pesticide manufacturing industry.
- Approval
of the policy paper for framing the future policies on clean coal technologies
to be adopted by Coal based Thermal Power Plant.
- Approval
of the proposal for Networking of Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station
in identified 10 cities namely Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore,
Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Kochi and Vishakhapatnam
- Approved
the policy and monitoring of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) in Chemical Industrial
Zones/Critically Polluted areas.
- Approved
the standards for the Refractory Industry.
- Approved
the Emission Standards and Stack Height Regulation for Brick Kilns.
- Approved
the Emission Standards for sulphuric acid plant.
- Approved
the effluent and emission standards for petroleum oil refineries.
- NABL
Accreditation of CPCB Laboratories
- Creation
of post of Office Secretary / Special Assistant in the Scale of Pay of Rs. 7500-250-12000/-
for special assistant to the office of the Chairman and Member Secretary
- Introduction
of non-functional Scale of Pay
Rs. 8000 – 275 - 13500 to Section Officer
of CPCB 3.3 NATIONAL
CONFERENCE OF CHAIRMAN AND MEMBER SECRETARY OF SPCB/PCCs 51st
Conference of Chairmen & Member Secretaries of CPCB/SPCBs/PCCs was organized
during February 14-15, 2005 at New Delhi. Over 100 participants from 29 State/UTs,
MoEF and CPCB attended the Conference. The
major issues discussed during the conference are as follows: - Monitoring
of Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) in and around industrial areas / critically
polluted areas
- Networking
of continuous ambient air quality monitoring stations in identified cities namely
Mumbai, Kolkatta, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Kochi
and Vishakhapattnam
- Continuous
air quality monitoring management involving private participation under the two
proposed options of 1) build, own & operate contract; and 2) operation and
maintenance contract
- Air
Pollution Source Apportionment Studies
- Monitoring
of micropollutants in water samples collected from NWMP locations
- Water quality
monitoring at Interstate Borders
- Polluted
river stretches : not covered by NRCD for action plan to control of water pollution
- Environmental
Data Bank (EDB)
- Development
/ review of emission and effluent standards
- Emission
standards for Hazardous Waste Incineration Systems (Common and Individual)
- Follow-Up
Action on Hazardous Waste Management – Implementation of Hon’ble Supreme Court
Order
- Guidance
document for Environmentally Sound Technologies (ESTs) for hazardous waste recycling
industries
- Co-Incineration
of High Calorific Value Hazardous Waste in Cement Kiln
- Surveillance
of Sewage Treatment Plants
- Common
Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) – status & action points for improvements
in functioning of CETPs.
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