Green Book(7th Edition 2021-22 pdf ) by Central Pollution Control Board of India

PART- I 

1. The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (as amended to date)     

2. The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Rules, 1975 (as amended to date) 

3. The Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Procedure for Transaction of Business) Rules, 1975 

4. Notifications under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974

• i) Schedule-I: Schedule of Board’s Laboratories
• ii) Schedule-II: Schedule of Sampling and Analysis charges for Environmental Samples
• iii) Appellate Authorities under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974
• iv) Delegation of Power and Functions by the Central Pollution Control Board to certain Committees in Union Territories
• v) Central Water Laboratory 
• vi) Standards for Small Scale Industrial Units located in Union Territories 
• vii) Constitution of Central Pollution Control Board 

PART-II 

1 The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981 (as amended to date) 

2 The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Rules, 1982 (as amended to date) 

3 The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) (Union Territories) Rules, 1983 

4 Notifications under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981

• i) National Ambient Air Quality Standards 
• ii) The date from which the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Amendment Act, 1987 came into force in the Whole of India
• iii) The date from which the Act came into force 
• iv) Declaration of Air Pollution Control Areas in various Union Territories 
• v) Appellate Authority under the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981

PART-III 

1 The Environmental Protection Act, 1986 (as amended to date) 

2 Notifications under the Environmental (Protection) Act, 1986

• i) Powers to Grant Recognition as Environment Laboratories and Government Analysts
• ii) Environment Laboratories and Government Analysts 
• iii) Officers Authorised for taking Cognizance of Offences
• iv) Officers/Agencies Empowered for Entry and Inspection 
• v) Officers/Agencies Authorized to Take Samples 
• vi) Delegation of Powers Under Section 5 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
• vii) Dahanu Taluka Environment (Protection) Authority 
• viii) Central Ground Waste Board Authority 
• ix) Aqua Culture Authority 
• x) The 2-T Oil Regulation of Supply and Distribution) Order, 1998 
• xi) Water Quality Assessment Authority 
• xii) Taj Trapezium Zone Pollution (Prevention and Control) authority 
• xiii) Loss of Ecology (Prevention and Payments of Compensation) Authority for the State of Tamil Nadu
• xiv) National Ganga River Basin Authority 
• xv) Uttar Pradesh State Ganga River Conservation Authority
• xvi) Jharkhand State Ganga River Conservation Authority 
• xvii) West Bengal State Ganga River Conservation Authority 
• xviii) Bihar State Ganga River Conservation Authority 
• xix) Delegation of Powers Under Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 
• xx) Utilisation of Fly Ash from Coal or Lignite Based Thermal Power Plants

3 The Environmental (Protection) Rules, 1986 (as amended to date) 

4 SCHEDULE I: Standards for emission or discharge of environmental pollutants 

• 1. Caustic Soda Industry 250
• 2. Man-Made Fibres 250
• 3. Petroleum Oil Refinery 251
• 4. Sugar Industry 257
• 5. Thermal Power Plants 258
• 5A. Thermal Power Plants (Water Consumption Limit) 258
• 5B. Thermal Power Plants (Water Consumption Limit) using sew water 259
• 6. Textile Industries (All Integrated textile units, units of Cotton/Woollen /Carpets/Polyester, Units having Printing/ Dyeing/Bleaching process or manufacturing and Garment units) 259
• 7. Composite Woollen Mills (Omitted) 260
• 8. Dye and Dye Intermediate Industry 260
• 9. Electroplating, Anodizing Industry 262
• 10. Cement Plant (without coprocessing), Standalone Clinker Grinding Plant or, Blending Plant 264
• 10A. Cement Plant with Co-Processing of Wastes 267
• 11. Stone Crushing Unit 269
• 12. Coke Ovens (Omitted) 269
• 13. Rubber Processing And Rubber Product Industry 269
• 14. Small Pulp and Paper Industry 270
• 15. Fermentation Industry (Distilleries, Maltries and Breweries) 271
• 16. Leather Tanneries (Omitted) 271
• 17. Fertilizer Industry 272
• 18. Iron Ore Mining and Ore Processing (Omitted) 273
• 19. Calcium Carbide 273
• 20. Carbon Black 273
• 21. Copper, Lead or Zinc Smelting Plant 274
• 22. Nitric Acid (Emission Oxides of Nitrogen) 274
• 23. Sulphuric Acid Plant 275
• 24 Integrated Iron & Steel Plant 275
• 25. Thermal Power Plant 279
• 26. Natural Rubber Industry (Omitted) 280
• 27. Asbestos Manufacturing Units (including all Processes Involving the use of Asbestos) 280
• 28. Chlor Alkali (Caustic Soda) 281
• 29. Large Pulp and Paper 281
• 30. Integrated Iron and Steel Plants (Omitted) 281
• 31. Re-Heating (Reverberatory) Furnaces 281
• 32. Foundries 281
• 33. Thermal Power Plants 281
• 33A. Thermal Power Plants with wet Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD) 282
• 34. Small Boilers 282
• 35. Coffee Industry 283
• 36. Aluminium Plants 283
• 37. Stone Crushing Unit 284
• 38. Petrochemicals (Basic & Intermediates) 285
• 39. Hotel Industry 288
• 40. Pesticide Industry 288
• 41. Tannery (After Primary Treatment) (Omitted) 291
• 42. Paint Industry 291
• 43. Inorganic Chemical Industry (Waste water discharge) 293
• 44. Bullion Refining (Waste water discharge) 293
• 45. Dye & Dye Intermediate Industry (Waste water discharge) (Omitted) 293
• 46. Noise Limits for Automobiles (free field) at one meter in dB(A) at the manufacturing stage to be achieved by the year 1992. 294
• 47. Domestic appliances and construction equipments at the manufacturing
• stage to be achieved by the year, 1993 294
• 48. Glass Industry 294
• 49. Lime Kiln 295
• 50. Slaughterhouse or Meat Processing Units or Both 295
• 51. Food and Fruit Processing Industry 296
• 52. Jute Processing Industry 297
• 53. Large Pulp & Paper News Print/Rayon Grade Plants of [Capacity above 24,000 MT Per Annum] 297
• 54. Small Pulp and Paper (Paper Plant of Capacity upto 24,000 MT/Annum 297
• 55. Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP) 298
• 56. Dairy 300
• 57. Tanneries 300
• 58. Natural Rubber Processing Industry (Omitted) 302
• 59. Bagasse-Fired Boilers 302
• 60. Man-made Fibre Industry (Semi-synthetic) 302
• 61. Ceramic Industry 302
• 62. Viscose Filament: Yarn (Omitted) 303
• 63. Starch Industry (Maize products) 303
• 64. Beehive Hard Coke Oven 304
• 65. Briquette Industry (Coal) 304
• 66. Soft Coke Industry 305
• 67. Edible Oil &Vanaspati Industry 305
• 68. Organic Chemicals Manufacturing Industry 306
• 69. Grain Processing Flour Mills, Paddy Processing, Pulse Marking or Gridding Mills 308
• 70. Boilers (Small) 309
• 71. Pesticides Industry (Omitted) 310
• 72. Oil Drilling and Gas Extraction Industry 310
• 73. Pharmaceutical (Manufacturing and Formulation) Industry 313
• 74. Brick Kilns 315
• 75. Soda Ash Industry (Solvay process) 317
• 76. Emission Standard for SO2 from Cupola Furnace 318
• 77. Specifications of Motor Gasoline for Emission Related Parameters (Omitted) 318
• 78. Specification of Diesel Fuel for Emission related Parameters (Omitted) 318
• 79. Coke Oven Plants (Omitted) 318
• 80. Specifications of Two-Stroke Engine Oil (Omitted) 318
• 81. Battery manufacturing Industry 318
• 82. Environmental Standards for Gas/Naptha-Based Thermal power Plants 319
• 83. Standards/Guidelines for control of Noise Pollution From Stationary Diesel Generator (DG) Sets (Omitted) 320
• 84. Temperature Limit for Discharge of Condenser Cooling Water from Thermal Power Plant 320
• 85. Environmental Standards for Coal Washeries 321
• 86. Water Quality Standards for Coastal Waters Marine Outfalls 322
• 87. Emission Regulations for Rayon Industry (Omitted) 327
• 88. Generator Sets Run on Petrol and Kerosene 327
• 89. Noise Standards for Fire-crackers 329
• 90. Standards for Coal Mines 329
• 91. Noise Limit for Generator Sets run with Petrol or Kerosene (Omitted) 332
• 92. Standards for Effluents from Textile Industry (Omitted) 332
• 93. Primary Water Quality Criteria for Bathing Water 332
• 94. Noise Limits for Generator Sets run with Diesel 333
• 95. Emission limits for new diesel engines (up to 800 kW) for generator sets (gensets) applications 337
• 95A. Genset run on dedicated Natural Gas (NG) or Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) 339
• 95B. Genset run on Petrol and Natural Gas (NG) or Petrol and Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG): - 342
• 95C. Genset run on Diesel and Natural Gas (NG) or Diesel and Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) 345
• 96 Emission Standards for Diesel Engines (Engine Rating more than 0.8 Mw (800 kW) for Power Plant, Generator Set Applications and other Requirements) 349
• 97. Boilers using Agricultural Waste as Fuel 351
• 98. Guidelines for Pollution Control in Ginning Mills 351
• 99. Sponge Iron Plant (Rotary Kiln) 351
• 100. Common Hazardous Waste Incinerator 357
• 101. Incinerator for Pesticide Industry (Omitted) 357
• 102. Refractory Industry 358
• 103. Cashew Seed Processing Industry 359
• 104. Plaster of Paris Industry 360
• 105. Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) 360
• 106. Agro based fuel 362
• 106A. Natural gas 362
• 106B. Other fuels 362
• 107. Ceramic 362
• 108. Foundry Industries (Furnaces based on Fuel) 362
• 109. Glass 362
• 110. Lime Kiln 362
• 111. Reheating furnace 362
• 112. Airports 363
• 113. Kerosene standards 365
• 114. Automobile Service Station, Bus Depot or Workshop 366

5 SCHEDULE II: (Omitted) 372

6 SCHEDULE III: Ambient Air Quality Standards in Respect of Noise 373

7 SCHEDULE IV: Standards for Emission of Smoke, Vapour, etc. from Motor Vehicles 373

8 SCHEDULE V: Statutory Authorities or Agencies 378

9 SCHEDULE VI: General standards for discharge of environmental pollutants 380

10 SCHEDULE VII: National Ambient Air Quality Standards 396

11 Notification under the Environmental (Protection) Rules, 1986 (as amended to date)

• i) Prohibition on the location of all industries in Murud-Janjira Area in Raigarh District of Maharashtra 398
• ii) Restrictions on location of industries, mining operation and other Development activities in Doon Valley in Uttar Pradesh 399
• iii) Prohibition and restriction on the handling of Hazardous Substance in different Cases. 406
• iv) Prohibition on the handling of Azodyes. 407
• v) Prohibition Of Storage Of Chemical In Antop Hill in Bombay. 410
• vi) Restrictions on the setting up of industries in Dahanu Taluka, District Thane, Maharashtra. 414
• vii) Restriction certain activities in Specified area of Aravalli Range. 421
• viii) Notification regarding No Development Zone around refinery site at Numaligarh East of Kaziranga. 427
• ix) Prohibition of the Import of Hazardous Wastes 429
• x) Prohibition of the open burning of waste oil 431
• xi) Matheran Eco-sensitive Zone 432
• xii) Sultanpur National Park, Haryana as Eco-sensitive Zone 445
• xiii) Mount Abu Eco-Sensitive Zone 450
• xiv) Mahableshwar Panchgani Eco-sensitive Zone 459

12 Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) Notification (as amended to date) 464

13 Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2006 524

14 The Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016. (as amended to date) 621

15 The Manufacture, Use, Import, Export and Storage of Hazardous MicroOrganisms/Genetically Engineered Organisms or Cells Rules, 1989 681

16 The Manufacture, Storage and Import of Hazardous Chemical Rules, 1989 (as amended to date) 704

17 The Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules, 2016 (as amended to date) 749

18 The Solid Waste Management Rules, 2016 (as amended to date) 787

19 The Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001 (as amended to date) 827

20 The E-Waste (Management) Rules, 2016 (as amended to date) 846

21 The Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 (as amended to date) 880

22 The Construction and Demolition Waste Management Rules, 2016 (as amended to date) 896

23 The Noise Pollution (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 (as amended to date) 910

24 The Ozone Depleting Substance (Regulation and Control) Rules, 2000 (as amended to date) 916

25 The Chemical Accidents (Emergency Planning, Preparedness and Response) Rules, 1996. (as amended to date) 976

26 Scheme on Labelling of Environment Friendly Products (Eco-Mark) (as amended to date) 1009

27 The Regulation Of Lead Contents In Household And Decorative Paints Rules, 2016 (as amended to date) 1016

28 The Regulation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls Order, 2016 1018

29 The Wetlands (Conservation and Management) Rules, 2017 (as amended to date) 1023

30 The Regulation of Persistent Organic Pollutants Rules, 2018 1032

PART-IV

1. The Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991 1036

2. The Public Liability Insurance Rules, 1991 1061

PART-V

1. The Biological Diversity Act, 2002 1067

2. The Biological Diversity Rules, 2004 1087

PART-VI

1. The National Green Tribunal Act, 2010 1108

2. The National Green Tribunal (Practice and Procedure) Rules, 2011 1126