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

Act ID: 2016

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

"Rules regulating the management and transboundary movement of hazardous and other wastes."

Table of Contents

40 Sections

Ch. IP

reliminary

S.2Application S.17"hazardous waste" means any waste which by reason of characteristics such as physical, chemical, biological, reactive, toxic, flammable, explosive or corrosive, causes danger or is likely to cause danger to health or environment, whether alone or in contact with other wastes or substances, and shall include S.25Import and export of hazardous waste S.26Transboundary movement S.27Manifest system S.28Standards for treatment and disposal S.29Monitoring and compliance S.30Accident reporting S.31Liability of occupier S.32Financial assurance S.33Records and returns S.34Appeal S.35Annual report S.36"used oil" means any oil S.37Miscellaneous S.38"waste" means materials that are not products or by-products, for which the generator has no further use for the purposes of production, transformation or consumption S.39Repeal and savings S.40[ "waste collector" means a person who collects hazardous and other wastes on behalf of actual user or operator of disposal facility from the occupier;] [Inserted by Notification No. G.S.R. 178(E), dated 1.3.2019 (w.e.f. 4.4.2016).]

Ch. IIP

rocedure for Management of Hazardous and other Wastes

S.4Responsibilities of the occupier for management of hazardous and other wastes S.5Responsibilities of State Government for environmentally sound management of hazardous and other wastes S.6Grant of authorisation for managing hazardous and other wastes S.7Power to suspend or cancel an authorisation S.9Utilisation of hazardous and other wastes S.10Standard Operating Procedure or guidelines for actual users

Ch. IIIImp

ort and Export of Hazardous and other Wastes

S.11Import and export (transboundary movement) of hazardous and other wastes S.12Strategy for Import and export of hazardous and other wastes S.13Procedure for import of hazardous and other wastes S.14Procedure for Export of hazardous and other wastes from India S.15Illegal traffic S.16Treatment, storage and disposal facility for hazardous and other wastes S.18Transportation of hazardous and other wastes S.19Manifest system (Movement Document) for hazardous and other waste to be used within the country only

Ch. VIMis

cellaneous

S.20Records and returns S.21Responsibility of authorities S.22Accident reporting S.23Liability of occupier, importer or exporter and operator of a disposal facility S.24Appeal

Ch. 11

Part A – General (to be filled by all)

S.1(a) Name and address of the unit and location of facility :

Ch. C

– To be filled by Treatment, storage and disposal facility operators

S.3.............of ...................... is hereby granted an authorisation based on the enclosed signed inspection report for generation, collection, reception, storage, transport, reuse, recycling, recovery, preprocessing, co-processing, utilisation, treatment, disposal or any other use of hazardous or other wastes or both on the premises situated at

Ch. C

– . To be filled by recyclers or co-processors or other users

S.8Quantity in storage at the end of the year