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Distillieries - Environmental Clearance

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Conceptual Facets of EIAConventional cost accounting (CCA): Direct and indirect financial costs+ Recognizedcontingent costsTotal Cost Assessment (TCA): A broader range of direct, indirect, contingent and lessquantifiable costsFull Cost assessment (FCA): TCA + External social costs borne by society2.3.1.4 <strong>Environmental</strong> audit/statementKey objectives of an environmental audit include compliance verification, problemidentification, environmental impact measurement, environmental performancemeasurement, conforming effectiveness of EMS, providing a database for correctiveactions and future actions, developing company’s environmental strategy, communicationand formulating environmental policy.The MoEF, Government of India (GOI) issued Notification on ‘<strong>Environmental</strong>Statements’ (ES) in April, 1992 and further amended in April 1993. As per theNotification, the industries are required to submit environmental statements to therespective State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs). ES is a pro-active tool for selfexaminationof the industry to reduce/minimize pollution by adopting processmodifications, recycling and reusing of the resources. The regular submission of ES willindicate the systematic improvement in environmental pollution control being achievedby the industry. In other way, specific points in ES may be used as environmentalperformance indicators for relative comparison, implementation and to promote betterpractices.2.3.1.5 <strong>Environmental</strong> benchmarking<strong>Environmental</strong> performance and operational indicators could be used to navigate, manageand communicate significant aspects and give enough evidence of good environmentalhouse keeping. Besides the existing prescribed standards, an insight to identify theperformance indicators and prescribing schedule for systematic improvement inperformance of these indicators will yield better results.Relative indicators may be identified for different industrial sectors and be integrated incompanies and organizations to monitor and manage different environmental aspects ofthe company, to benchmark and compare two or more companies from the same sector.These could cover water consumption, wastewater generation, energy consumption,solid/hazardous waste generation, chemical consumption etc. per tonne of final product.Once these bench marks are developed, the industries which are below the benchmarkmay be guided and enforced to reach them while those which are better than thebenchmark may be encouraged further by giving incentives etc.2.3.1.6 <strong>Environmental</strong> indicatorsIndicators can be classified in to environmental performance indicators (EPI) andenvironmental condition indicators (ECI). The EPIs can be further divided into twocategories i.e. operational performance indicators and management performanceindicators.The operational performance indicators are related to the process and other operationalactivities of the organization. These would typically address the issue of raw materialconsumption, energy consumption, water consumption in the organization, the quantitiesTGM for Distillery Industry August 20102-4

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