Charter on Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection Cement Industry

1. Cement Plants, which are not complying* with notified standards, shall do the following to meet the standards:
   • Augmentation of existing Air Pollution Control Devices — by July 2003
   • Replacement of existing Air Pollution Control Devices — by July 2004
   
   Cement Plants located in critically polluted or urban areas (including 5 km distance outside urban boundary) will meet 100 mg/Nm3 limit of particulate matter by December 2004 and continue working to reduce the emission of particulate matter to 50 mg/Nm3.
   
   The new cement kilns to be accorded NOC/Environmental Clearance w.e.f. 01.04.2003 will meet the limit of 50 mg/Nm3 for particulate matter emissions.
   
   CPCB will evolve load based standards by December 2003.
   
   CPCB and NCBM will evolve SO2 and NOx emission standards by June 2004.
   
   The Cement industries will control fugitive emissions from all the raw material and products storage and transfer points by December 2003. However, the feasibility for the control of fugitive emissions from limestone and coal storage areas will be decided by the National Task Force (NTF). The NTF shall submit its recommendations within three months.
   
   CPCB, NCBM, BIS and Oil refineries will jointly prepare the policy on use of petroleum coke as fuel in cement kiln by July 2003.
   
   After performance evaluation of various types of continuous monitoring equipment and feed back from the industries and equipment manufacturers, NTF will decide feasible unit operations/sections for installation of continuous monitoring equipment. The industry will install the continuous monitoring systems (CMS) by December 2003.
   
   Trippings in kiln ESP to be minimized by July 2003 as per the recommendation of NTF.
   
   Industries will submit the target date to enhance the utilization of waste material by April 2003.
   
   NCBM will carry out a study on hazardous waste utilization in cement kiln by December 2003.
   
   
2. Cement industries will carry out feasibility study and submit target dates to CPCB for co-generation of power by July 2003.