Himachal Pradesh Pollution Board NOC

The planning, promotion, coordination, and oversight of the execution of environmental initiatives are handled by the H.P. State Pollution Control Board, a nodal institution in the state government's administrative system. About thirty years ago, the groundwork for the current environmental protection strategy was laid, and a national legislative framework was first established to safeguard the environment from the damaging effects of the quickly modernizing industrial society. The accumulation and magnifying of issues caused by growth outpacing our capacity to solve them has led to a significant expansion of the legislative and technological bases over the ensuing time.

In the years that followed, when highly visible forms of environmental pollution and other significant concerns of an immediate nature emerged, a start made in the middle of the 1970s encompassing and integrating environmental concerns in a comprehensive national policy proved quite useful with a tangible degree of success. This led to ongoing policy and legislative evaluations and the adoption of appropriate adjustments whenever they were required to safeguard the country from the looming threat of environmental deterioration. The Board has consistently worked to increase its operations over the years in order to meet the demands of new laws, difficulties, and ecological concerns. In accordance with the following laws, the H.P. State Pollution Control Board's primary tasks include pollution prevention and control as well as environmental protection.

In relation to the duties and responsibilities of the HP Pollution Control Board, the following notable rules and notices are relevant-

• Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemical Rules, 1989. 
• Recycled Plastics Manufacture and Usage Rules, 1999/2003. 
• Noise Pollution (Control and Regulation) Rules, 2000. 
• Solid Wastes (Management) Rules, 2016. 
• Ozone-depleting substances (Regulation) Rules, 2000. 
• Batteries (Management & Handling) Rules, 2001. 
• The Hazardous and Other Waste (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016. 
• Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016.

Following are the Prime objectives of the Board

• To develop cost-effective methods for waste disposal.
• To create a comprehensive scheme for the preventative measures, control, or eradication of pollution of streams and wells, as well as air pollution, within the State, and to ensure its implementation.
• By strategically locating new companies and relocating existing ones when needed, the demand for pollution management can be reduced.
• Control pollution at the source while considering the techno-economic efficiency of both liquid and gaseous effluents.
• To provide technical assistance and guidance to the State Pollution Control Board.
• To carry out and sponsor investigations and research related to prevention, control and abatement of air pollution.
• To collect, compile and publish technical and statistical data related to air pollution; 
• Use adequately treated waste on lands for industrial and agricultural purposes, and increase the quantity of sewage and industrial effluents that are recycled or reused.
• To advise the Central Government on any matter concerning the improvement of the quality of the air and the prevention, control and abatement of air pollution. To plan and cause to be executed a nation-wide programme for the prevention, control and abatement of air pollution.
• To promote research into and analysis of pollution-related issues, undertake such research and take part in such research.
• To provide advice to the State government on any issue relating to pollution management, prevention, or locating the source.
• To lay down and annual standards for the quality of air.
• The goals are to successfully control water and air pollution as well as to maintain and improve the overall quality of the water for a variety of uses.

Who Needs to Obtain Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (HPSPCB) NOC?

Industries dealing in activities that generate any kind of pollution need to obtain a no-objection certificate from their respective state pollution control board. These pollution-causing activities involve the following-

• Discharge of Effluents
• Discharge of Air Pollutants

If your business also undertakes such activities then you need to get NOC from Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board NOC. After receiving the NOC you can perform these activities but under the standards as set by the regulating authority. Apart from this, if a business is being set up in a pollution-regulated area then also it has to get prior approval from the pollution control board Himachal Pradesh.

The Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board has given instructions to classify industries into Red, Green, Orange, and White categories and to implement the categorization of industrial sectors. Any new or unused industrial sectors that are not featured in the CPCB's classification must be classified at the level of the relevant SPCBs and PCCs. The primary determinants of categorizing processes have been the scale of the industries and resource consumption. The possible harm to human health as well as the contamination brought on by the release of pollutants and effluents were not taken into account. The SPCBs/PCCs and business organizations demanded a clearer categorization of the industrial sectors. The Pollution Index, or PI, of any industrial sector is a number between 0 and 100; a rising PI value denotes a higher pollution load from that sector. The following Range of Pollution Index criterion for identifying industrial sectors has been decided upon following the end of many brainstorming sessions involving CPCB, SPCBs, and MoEFCC.

• Red Category: Industrial Sectors with Pollution Index scores of 60 or higher
• Orange category: Industrial Sectors with Pollution Index scores of 41 to 59
• Green Category: Industrial Sectors with Pollution Index scores of 21 to 40
• White Category: Industrial Sectors with a Pollution Index score of 20 or lower

The recently established "White" category of industries includes those that manufacture essentially pollution-free goods, such as the production of scientific and mathematical instruments, cotton and woollen hosiery, biscuit trays, and other items from rolled PVC sheet (using automatic vacuum forming machines) (dry process only without any dying or washing operation). Projects that fall under the new category of "white," which are essentially non-polluting, are exempt from the environmental clearance requirement of the Environment (Protection) Act of 1986 as well as the consent requirements of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act of 1981 and the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act of 1974.

What Are The Types Of Consent Needed As Per The Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (HPSPCB)?

• Consent to Establish

Before starting an industry, the tourism unit or hotel(s) must seek permission to do so. In accordance with the terms of the Water Act and/or the Air Act, the proposed hotel must acquire consent to establish. You must submit or upload the application for consent to establish under the Water Act or the Air Act online. 

If an industry or development project does not require environmental clearance from the Government of India, consent to establish is granted subject to a number of restrictions.

• Consent to Operate 

The entrepreneur must seek Consent to Operate once the industry, process facility, or development project has been constructed together with the necessary pollution control systems. The Consent to Operate is granted for the remainder of the current fiscal year and must subsequently be renewed on a regular basis. The Consent to Operate is granted for the final five months of the current fiscal year and must be renewed on a regular basis going forward.

• Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016

Every facility occupant who handles, produces, collects, stores, packages, transports, uses, treats, processes, recycles, recovers, pre-processes, co-processes, utilizes, offers for sale, transfers, or disposes of other wastes must submit an application in Form-I to the State Pollution Control Board.

• Registration under Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules, 2016.
• Solid Waste Management, Rules 2016
• Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001

What is the procedure to obtain a HP Pollution Control Board NOC?

The Prevention of Water Pollution Act, 1969, was used when requesting permission to operate and authorization to establish in the State of Himachal Pradesh. The Board's regulations were also created in accordance with Section 5 of the Air (P &CP) Act of 1981, the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act of 1981, and the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act of 1974. Before starting the project anyplace in the State of Himachal Pradesh, the Project Proponent and Start-ups that want to run their business project must first acquire authorization. Based on the range that each Project, Industry, and Non-Industries unit falls under in the Pollution Index and Pollution Potential for Consent management, each unit has been assigned to one of four categories - Red, Orange, Green, or White. The project can already be in existence and running; therefore, approval to start the project is not required as the project must have permission to run by the deadline.

Let’s understand the procedure:

• Connect with the Corpseed team.
• Provide necessary documents for the Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board (HPPCB) Consent/CTE/CTO
• We will assign a dedicated Consultant, an expert in managing the whole process of getting Consent/CTE/CTO from HPPCB
• Our Pollution Control expert will reach out to you and complete the procedure to obtain a Pollution License for your Business
• Our Expert Consultant will draft & apply with Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (HPSPCB)
• We will deliver the CTE/CTO to you via email and courier.

What are the Documents required to obtain a HP Pollution Control Board Consent?

• A request for permission under section 21 of the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act of 1981. (to be completed in OCMMS online).
• Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution Act, 1974) Section 25/26 Application for Consent. (to be completed in OCMMS online).
• Copy of the approval, provisional registration certificate, or certificate of clearance and monitoring issued by the state's single window clearing and monitoring authority or the industries department. (According to the Department of Industries, all projects with investments totaling more than Rs. 5 crore)

  Or

  Udhyam Registration/Acknowledgment Certificate Copies (for micro, small and medium enterprises).

• A copy of the Environmental Clearance from 2006, or any subsequent amendments, if the unit is covered by the EIA. 
• A detailed layout showing manufacturing units, water supply and waste lines, treatment units/air pollution control equipment location, and solid waste disposal site is shown on the "Site Plan," which also shows the location of the proposed Industry and physical features like streams, villages, and towns as well as distance from the closest link road and main road, including human habitation.
• If the proposed location is outside of a planning area's permitted industrial area or estate, a copy of the NOC from the Town & Country Planning Department is required.
• Project Report of the Proposed Industry duly accepted and approved by GM Industries Department/certified by Chartered Accountant (CA) which shall include detailed manufacturing process along with flow chart of various operations to be carried out, type of raw materials, details of plant & machinery, material & water balances, Chemical Safety Data Sheet for each chemical to be used in the process, total investment, proposed in the project, and the estimated outlay earmarked.  
• Feasibility report on Pollution Control Devices/Solid Waste Management/Plastic Waste Management/Hazardous Waste Management/Noise Pollution Control Measures. (Mandatory). The report shall include details of Engineering Designs & Drawings of the proposed Pollution Control Measures for treatment and control of wastewater, emissions and solid waste. These proposals are to be supported by information about likely waste water quality/emission quality of air pollutants, safe disposal of hazardous wastes, and efficiency of equipment, mode of final disposal of treated effluent / air emissions and air quality after treatment and before discharge. Water flow meter should be provided at the outlet of STP/ETP/ETP cum STP.  Separate energy meter should be provided for STP/ETP/ETP cum STP and air pollution control devices.  Log book of ETP/STP/ETP cum STP should be maintained having details regarding daily inflow, energy consumption and chemicals used. 
• The "Code of Basic Requirements for Water Supply, Drainage and Sanitation" shall be the source of information for water consumption/generation data.
• If member of CETP - Copy of CETP membership 
• The unit is required to submit Action Plan for waste generated by their products in the State of HP endorsed by Urban Development Department as per State Board’s notification dated 23-02-2022 under Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 as amended from time to time, if the unit falls under the definition of Producer, Importer or Brand Owner under PWM Rules. 
• In case of Hydro Power Projects, the unit shall be required to submit a copy of site plans of muck dumping site.
• Copy of Clearance of Joint Inspection Committee in respect Stone Crushers/Mining Projects/Brick Kilns etc.
• Copy of On-Site Emergency Plan, copy of Public Liability Insurance (PLI) in the proposed industry fall in the ambit of Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemicals Rules, 1989 as per above mentioned rules.

The unit may submit an application for RCTE for a period of 1 to 5 years if the industry/development project is still in the construction stage. The following shall be attached along with the application to renew a Consent to Establish-

• Self-Attested Document/Affidavit of no change in process/design/ product capacities.
• Details of Muck generation during the construction period and utilization done thereof. 

Every industry or development project receives consent to operate for the entire fiscal year or a portion thereof. Depending on the type of industry, this consent must be renewed every 5, 10, or 15 years for Red, Orange and Green Category respectively. The status of compliance with the standards established for effluents, emissions, or waste, as applicable, in the prior period is the main factor considered for the renewal of Consent to Operate.

What is the Validity of Consent as per the Himachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (HPSPCB)?

Consent to Establish

After carefully examining the following factors, an industry/development project may apply for consent to establish for a minimum of 1 (one) year and a maximum of 5 (five) years.

• If an industry or development project does not require environmental clearance from the Indian government, consent to establish is granted subject to specific restrictions. 
• The State Board shall grant conditional consent to establish for a minimum of 1 (one) year and a maximum of 5 (five) years as requested by the applicant unit by submitting the necessary fees in the event that the industry or development project requires environmental clearance from the Government of India or the State pursuant to the EIA, 2006 as amended.

Consent to Operate (for Red, Orange and Green Category)

The Consent to Operate is granted for the remainder of the current fiscal year and must subsequently be renewed on a regular basis. The Consent to Operate is granted for the final five months of the current fiscal year and must be renewed on a regular basis going forward. (For example, to match with the financial year cycle, a unit requesting for CTO from 01-06-2022 forward shall be granted the first CTO valid until 31-03-2023.)

Corpseed provides a one-stop solution for all your business needs. Our teams have a lot of experience dealing with the pollution control boards of all states in the country including the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). We provide fast, efficient and affordable means to get NOCs and other approvals including CTE and CTO from your respective state pollution control board. Our network of offices around the country and excellence in environment compliance management make us the best choice for you to get your Himachal Pradesh Pollution Board NOC.