Post Audit activities

EIA has traditionally been viewed as a series of steps, leading

from screening (determination of whether an EIA is necessary
for a particular development), through scoping (deciding on the
coverage of the EIS environmental impact statement-) and EIS
preparation, to consultation and decision making. Much focus
has been given on pre-decision stages of EIA, and the neglect of
post-decision monitoring and post-auditing stages, has severely
constrained the maturation of EIA systems world-wide.
 Post-Audit Activities

Objectives
1. To produce an Audit Report with audit findings and
recommendations
2. To contribute towards formulation of an Action Plan for
continual performance improvement
Actions

1. Collate Information and Follow Up Outstanding Issues

Information to be organised should include:

1. Completed pre-audit questionnaire, operational document

checklists
2. Completed on-site survey questionnaires, on-site audit protocols
3. All relevant correspondence, memoranda, reports, diagrams and
drawings
4. Copies of records, photographs, and other information collected
during the site visit
5. Detailed inspection and interview notes and summaries
2. Prepare the Audit Report

The Audit Report should include:

1. An Executive Summary
2. Introduction and background to the audit
3. Audit scope and objectives
4. Description of audit approach and methodology
5. Summary of audit findings and recommendations
6. Conclusions

In particular, the findings summary should comprise the followings:

1. Status of compliance with environmental legislative requirements
2. Status of conformity with internal environmental policies, procedures and guidelines
3. Status of good environmental practices implementation
4. Level of staff awareness of operational issues relating to environmental performance
5. Overall status of environmental performance
6. Recommendations for environmental performance improvement
3. Circulate Draft Audit Report For Comments
Include the following parties on the circulation list:
1. The Audit Management Committee
2. Senior audit site management
3. Site Facilitator(s)
4. Site personnel with responsibilities for implementing
the major recommendations
5. Other parties included on the agreed circulation list
4. Final Reporting
1. Incorporate or resolve all comments received before
producing the Final Report
2. Issue the report to the Audit Management Committee and site senior
management for endorsement
Output
Final Audit Report addressing
1. Environmental Legislation compliance status
2. Departmental environmental policies, procedures and guide lines
conformity status
3. Status of current environmental performance
4. Recommendations for performance improvement
 THE ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION) ACT, 1986

1.SHORT TITLE, EXTEND AND COMMENCEMENT

1. This Act may be called the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
2. It extends to the whole of India.
3. It shall come into force on such date as the Central Government
may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint and different dates
may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and for different
areas
2.DEFINITIONS
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,--
(a) "environment" includes water, air and land and the inter- relationship which exists
among and between water, air and land, and human beings, other living creatures,
plants, micro-organism and property;
(b) "environmental pollutant" means any solid, liquid or gaseous substance present in
such concentration as may be, or tend to be, injurious to environment;
(c) "environmental pollution" means the presence in the environment of any
environmental pollutant;
(d) "handling", in relation to any substance, means the manufacture, processing,
treatment, package, storage, transportation, use, collection, destruction, conversion,
offering for sale, transfer or the like of such substance;
(e) "hazardous substance" means any substance or preparation which, by reason of its
chemical or physico-chemical properties or handling, is liable to cause harm to human
beings, other living creatures, plant, micro-organism, property or the environment;
(f) "occupier", in relation to any factory or premises, means a person who has, control
over the affairs of the factory or the premises and includes in relation to any substance,
the person in possession of the substance;
(g) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act.
 3. General powers of the central government
1. Power of central government to take measures to protect and improve environment
2. Appointment of officers and their powers and functions
3. Power to give directions
4. Rules to regulate environmental pollution
4. Prevention, control, and abatement of environmental
pollution
5. Persons carrying on industry operation, etc., Not to allow emission or discharge of
environmental pollutants in excess of the standards
6. Persons handling hazardous substances to comply with procedural safeguards
7. Furnishing of information to authorities and agencies in certain cases
8. Powers of entry and inspection
9. Power to take sample and procedure to be followed in connection therewith
10. Environmental laboratories
11. Government analysts
12. Reports of government analysts
13. Penalty for contravention of the provisions of the act and the rules, orders and
directions
14. Offences by companiesoffences by government departments
Rules made under this act to be laid before parliament

Every rule made under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is
made, before each Hose of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total
period of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or
more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session
immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid,
both Houses agree in making any modification in the rule or both Houses
agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have
effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be;
so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without
prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.
WATER (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION) ACT, 1974

An Act to provide for the prevention and control of water pollution and
the maintaining or restoring of wholesomeness of water for the
establishment, with a view to carrying out the purposes aforesaid, of
Boards for the prevention and control of water pollution, for conferring
on and assigning to such Boards powers and functions relating thereto
and for matters connected therewith
 Chapter 1. PRELIMINARY

1.Short title, application and commencement

(1) This Act may be called the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974.

(2) It applies in the first instance to the whole of the States of Assam, Bihar, Gujarat,
Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh,
Rajasthan, Tripura and West Bengal and the Union Territories; and it shall apply to such
other State which adopts this Act by resolution passed in that behalf under clause (1) of
article 252 of the Constitution.

(3) It shall come into force at once in the States of Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana,
Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan,
Tripura and West Bengal and in the Union Territories, and in any other State which
adopts this Act under clause (1) of article 252 of the Constitution on the date of such
adoption and any reference in this Act to the commencement of this Act shall, in relation
to any State or Union Territory, means the date on which this Act comes into force in
such State or Union Territory.
 2. Definitions
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,-

(a) "Board" means the Central Board or a State Board;

(b) "Central Board" means the Central Pollution Control Board constituted
under section
(c) "member" means a member of a Board and includes the Chairman thereof
(d) "occupier" in relation to any factory or premises, means the person who has
control over the affairs of the factory or the premises, and includes, in
relation to any substance, the person in possession of the substance
(dd) "outlet" includes any conduit pipe or channel, open or closed, carrying
sewage or trade effluent or any other holding arrangement which causes or is
likely to cause, pollution
(e) "pollution" means such contamination of water or such alteration of the
physical, chemical or biological properties of water or such discharge of any
sewage or trade effluent or of any other liquid, gaseous or solid substance
into water (whether directly or indirectly) as may, or is likely to, create a
nuisance or render such water harmful or injurious to public health or safety,
or to domestic, commercial, industrial, agricultural or other legitimate uses,
or to the life and health of animals or plants or of aquatic organisms;
(f) "prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act by the Central
Government or, as the case may be, the State Government.
(g) "sewage effluent" means effluent from any sewerage system or sewage
disposal works and includes sullage from open drains
[(gg) "sewer" means any conduit pipe or channel, open or closed, carrying sewage or trade
effluent;]
[(h) "State Board" means a State Pollution Control Board constituted under
Section
(i) "State Government" in relation to a Union Territory means the Administrator
thereof appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;
(j) "stream" includes-
(i) river;
(ii) water course (whether flowing or for the time being dry);
(iii) inland water (whether natural or artificial);
(iv) sub-terranean waters;
(v) sea or tidal waters to such extent or, as the case may be, to such point as
the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
specify in this behal
(k) "trade effluent" includes any liquid, gaseous or solid substance which is
discharged from any premises used for carrying on any [industry, operation
or process, or treatment and disposal system], other than domestic sewage.f
 Chapter ii
The central and state boards for prevention
and control of water pollution
• Constitution of Central Board
• Constitution of State Boards
• Terms and conditions of service of members
• Disqualifications
• Vacation of seats by members
• Meetings of Boards
THE AIR (PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF
POLLUTION) ACT, 1981
An Act to provide for the prevention, control and abatement of air
pollution, for the establishment, with a view to carrying out the
aforesaid purposes, of Boards, for conferring on and assigning to such
Boards powers and functions relating thereto and for matters connected
therewith