Environmental Clearance from the Government is mandatory for construction of new projects or activities or the expansion or modernization of existing projects or activities listed in the Schedule of The Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 2006
LIST OF PROJECTS OR ACTIVITIES REQUIRING PRIOR ENVIRONMENTAL CLEARANCE
Mining , extraction of natural resources and power generation (for a specified production capacity)
- Mining of Minerals
- Offshore and Onshore oil and gas exploration, development & production
- River Valley Projects
- Thermal Power Plants
- Nuclear Power Projects and Processing of Nuclear Fuel
Primary Processing
- Coal Washeries
- Mineral beneficiation
Materials Production
- Metallurgical industries
- Cement Plants
Materials Processing
- Petroleum refining industry
- Coke oven plants
- Asbestos milling and asbestos based products
- Chlor-alkali industry
- Soda ash industry
- Leather/skin/hide processing industry
Manufacturing/ Fabrication
- Chemical Fertilisers
- Pesticide industry and pesticide specific intermediates
- Petro-chemical complexes
- Man made fibres manufacturing
- Petrochemical based processing
- Synthetic organic chemicals industry
- Integrated paint industry
- Pulp and Paper industry
- Sugar industry
Service Sectors
- Oil and gas transportation pipe line
- Isolated storage and handling of hazardous chemicals
Physical Infrastructure including Environmental Services
- Airports
- All ship breaking yards including ship breaking units
- Industrial estates/parks/complexes/areas, Export Processing Zones, and Special Economic Zones, Bio-tech Parks, Leather complexes.
- Common hazardous waste treatment , storage and disposal facilities
- Ports , Harbours, break waters, and dredging
- Highways
- Aerial ropeways
- Common Effluent Treatment Plants
- Common Municipal Solid Waste Management Facility
Building/Construction projects/Area Development Projects and Townships
- Building and Construction projects
- Townships and Area Development Projects
Category A projects requires clearance from the Central Government in the Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) on the recommendations of an Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC)
Category B projects excluding those which fulfill the General Conditions (GC) stipulated in the Schedule, will require prior environmental clearance from the State/Union territory Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) . In the absence of a duly constituted SEIAA or SEAC, a Category 'B' project shall be considered at the Central Level as a Category B project.
Validity of Environmental Clearance
River Valley Projects : 10 years
Mining Projects : 30 years (max)
Other Projects and Activites : 5 years
Form 1 : Application for Prior Environmental Clearance