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1 F. No. J-11011/281/2007- IA \I (I) Government of India Ministry of Environment and Forests (I.A. Division) Paryavaran Bhawan CGO Complex, Lodhi Road New Delhi To, Mis Jindal Stainless Ltd. Jindal Centre, 12, Bhikaji Cama Place New Delhi pb.rastogi@nic.in Telefax: 011: Dated 1sl November, ncm@jindalsteel.com ; Fax No. : Subject: Modification-cum-expansion of Integrated Stainless Steel Plant (1.6 MTPA) at Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex, Dangadi, Jajpur, Orissa by MIs Jindal Stainless Ltd. Environmental clearance reg. Sir This has reference to your letter no. nil dated 21 sl March, 2007 alongwith project documents including Application in Schedule II, Questionnaire and EIAIEMP Report as per the EIA Notification, 1994 and subsequent clarificaticns furnished by you vide your letter dated 25th & May, 2007 and 18th September, 2007 for environmental clearance on the above mentioned project. 2.0 T:'6 Ministry of Environment and Forests has examined your application. It is noted that proposal is for the Modification-cum-expansion of Integrated Stainless Steel Plant (1.6 MTPA) at Kalinga Nagar Industrial Complex, Dangadi, Jajpur, Orissa for which environmental clearance was accorded vide letter no. J-11011/195/2005-1A.11 (I) dated 51h August, You have proposed to add the following units with no change in capacity (1.6 MTPA) : 1. Sinter Plant (1 x 180 m2) x Recovery Type Coke Oven Battery. 3. Blast Furnace and associated facilities of 1 x 1600 m3 (BF) instead of 2 x 750 m3 and 2 x 1800 TPD (PCM) instead of 2 x 1500 TPD x 27.6 MVA SAFs instead of 2 x 16.5 for MVA Fe-Mn Plant x 27.6 MVA SAFs instead of 2 x 16.5 MVA for Si-Mn Plant x 12 MW BF gas based power plant instead of 1 x 12 MW, 3 x 13 MW & 2 x 13 MW WHRB for the use of these gases from Ferro Alloy Plants. It is also noted that the proposed coke oven batteries are of recovery type with wet quenching. Wet quenching for 1st and 2nd coke oven batteries and dry quenching for 3rd and 4th batteries will be adopted during expansion. 3.0 No rehabilitation and resettlement is involved. Total land requirement is ha. No national park, wildlife sanctuary is located within 10 km radius of the project. Total water requirement from Brahmani river will be 72,696 m3/day, out of which, 70,008 m3/d (96.3%) shall be recycled and reused in the process. Following will be manufactured:

2 Main S.N. Annual Quantit 1.6 MTPA 26,300 t 260,200 t MN m Total cost of the project is Rs Crores. Rs Crores have been earmarked towards capital cost and recurring cost/annum for environment pollution control measures. 3.0 Public hearing with the modification as proposed in the proposal for expansion of Integrated Steel Plant for 1.6 MTPA capacity by M/s Jindal Stainless Ltd. has been conducted on 30th June, 2006 based on which 'No Objection Certificate' has been accorded by the Orissa Pollution Control Board vide letter no /1nd-II-NOC-4222 dated 3rd November, The Ministry of Environment and Forests hereby accords environmental clearance to the above project under the provisions of EIA Notification dated 14th September, 2006 subject to strict compliance of the following specific and general conditions: A. SPECIFIC CONDITIONS: i) The industry shall follow coke oven standards as per E(P)A Notification. VOCs from the coke oven shall be monitored and controlled as per CPCB guidelines. ii) Electrostatic precipitator (ESP) shall be provided to Sinter plant and gas cleaning plant. (GCP) to blast furnace (BF) to control gaseous emissions from all the vents/stacks within 50 mg/nma Bag filter shall be provided to BF, Lime Plant, Steel Melting Shop (SMS), various pollutants and data submitted to the Ministry's Regional Office at Bhubaneswar, I Ferro-Alloy CPCB and OSPCB. Plant etc. Dust On-line suppression continuous system monitoring shall be system installed shall atbe rawinstalled materialtohandling monitor areas, material transfer paints and solid waste dumps to control fugitive emissions. Water sprinkling shall be done on the roads to control fugitive emissions. iii) Total requirement of the water from Brahamani river shall not exceed 72,696 m3/day or cusecs as per permission accorded by the Department of Water Resources, Govt. of Orissa. No ground water shall be used for the plant. All the treated wastewater shall be recycled and reused in the process and 'lero' discharge shall be strictly adopted as per direction of the OPCB. Water from BF GCP shall be sent to a clarifier/thickner and overflow shall be used in Pig Casting Machine. Phenolic effluent from Coke oven complex shall be treated in the ETP of BOD Plant and recycled and reused for quenching the coke. Acidic/alkaline effluent from OM water plant shall be neutralized and reused in the plant. Blow down from different sources shall be used for slag granulation. Backwash from Filtration plant shall be collected in sludge pond and over flow shall be used for dust suppression and irrigation of green belt. Ammonia, phenol and cyanide in the effluent should be treated. Cyanide shall meet the standard of 0.2 ppm. TDS in the effluent discharged shall not be more than 2,100 mg/1. The domestic wastewater after treatment in STP shall be used for green belt development.

3 iv) Coke oven by-product effluent shall be treated as per notified standards and only treated effluents after meeting the norms shall be used for coke quenching. No fresh water shall be used for this purpose. v) Ground water monitoring around the solid waste disposal site / secured landfill (SLF) shall be carried out regularly and report submitted to the Ministry's Regional Office at Bhubaneswar / CPCB and OPCB. vi) Solid waste shall be disposed off in secured landfill designed as per the specifications of the CPCB. Iron ore fines, mill scales, scales from slab caster, sinter plant dust, dust from gas cleaning plant, coke breeze, sludge from gas cleaning plant and blast furnace, sludge from thickener and dust from steel melting shop (SMS) shall be recycled and reused in sinter plant. SMS scrap shall be recycled in SMS. Scrap from different sources like slab caster stickle mill, DRAP line, CR slitting line, CRM etc. shall be recycled in Chromium plant. SMS slag shall be used for land filling. Ferro Manganese slag shall be used for Si-Mn production. Slag from Si-Mn plant (54,000 TPA) and Ferrochrome plant shall be dumped. \'ii) Green belt shall be developed in 135 ha., out of total ha. area within and around the plant premises as per the CPCB guidelines in consultation with DFO. viii) As proposed, modified wet quenching for 1st and 2nd coke oven batteries as per CPCB guidelines and dry quenching in 3rd and 4th batteries shall be adopted during the expansion. B. GENERAL CONDITIONS: i. The project authorities must strictly adhere to the stipulations made by the Orissa Pollution Control Board (OPCB) and the State Government. II. No further expansion or modifications in the plant should be carried out without prior approval of the Ministry of Environment and Forests. III. The gaseous emissions from various process units shall conform to the load/mass based standards notified by this Ministry on 19th May, 1993 and standards prescribed from time to time. The state Board may specify more stringent standards for the relevant parameters keeping in view the nature of the industry and its size and location. At no time, the emission level shall go beyond the prescribed standards. On-line continuous. monitoring system shall be installed in stacks to monitor SPM and interlocking facilities shall be provided so that process can be automatically stopped in case emission level exceeds the limit. NOx burners shall be installed to control NOx levels. IV. At least four ambient air quality-monitoring stations shall be established in the downward direction as well as where maximum ground level concentration of SPM, S02 and NOx are anticipated in consultation with the OPCB. Data on ambient air quality and stack emission shall be regularly submitted to this Ministry including its Regional Office at Bhubaneswar / OPCS / CPCS once in six months. V. In-plant control measures for checking fugitive emissions from all the vulnerable sources like Coke oven area, Sinter plant, Blast Furnace area etc. Further, specific measures like water sprinkling shall be carried out at the stock piles of raw material, stacker reclaimer, conveyor transfer points and vibrating screens etc. Dust extraction system and bag filters shall be provided to the sinter plant stock house, SF and Ferroalloys handling area in steel melting shop etc. Fume extraction system in steel refining

4 units shall also be provided. Centralized de-dusting system Le. collection of fugitive emissions through suction hood and subsequent treatment through bag filter or any other device and finally emitted through a stack of appropriately designed and height conforming to the standards for induction furnaces in the industry shall be provided. Fugitive emissions shall be controlled, regularly monitored and records maintained. VI. VII. VIII. IX. Industrial wastewater shall be properly collected, treated so as to conform to the standards prescribed under GSR 422 (E) dated 19th May, 1993 and 31st December, 1993 or as amended form time to time. The treated wastewater shall be utilized for plantation purpose. The overall noise levels in and around the plant area shall be kept well within the standards (85 dba) by providing noise control measures including acoustic hoods, silencers, enclosures etc. on all sources of noise generation. The ambient noise levels should conform to the standards prescribed under EPA Rules, 1989 viz. 75 dba (daytime) and 70 dba (nighttime). The company shall develop surface water harvesting structures to harvest the rain water for utilization in the lean season besides recharging the ground water table. Occupational Health Surveillance of the workers shall be done on a regular basis and records maintained as per the Factories Act. x. Recommendations made in the CREP guidelines issued for ttie steel plants shall be implemented. XI. The project proponent shall also comply with all the environmental protection measures and safeguards recommended in the EtA I EMP report. Further, the company shallundertake socio-economic development activities in the surrounding villages like community development programmes, educational programmes, drinking water supply and health care etc. xii. xiii. XIV. xv. The project authorities shall utilize Rs Crores earmarked for the environmental pollution control measures judiciously to implement the conditions stipulated by the Ministry of Environment and Forests as well as the State Government alongwith the implementation schedule for all the conditions stipulated herein. The funds so provided shall not be diverted for any other purpose. The Regional Office of this Ministry at Bhubaneswar/CPCB/OPCB will monitor the stipulated conditions. A six monthly compliance report and the monitored data along with statistical interpretation shall be submitted to them regularly. The Project Proponent shall inform the public that the project has been accorded environmental clearance by the Ministry and copies of the clearance letter are available with the OPCB/Committee and may also be seen at Website of the Ministry of Environment and Forests at This shall be advertised within seven days from the date of issue of the clearance letter, at least in two local newspapers that are widely circulated in the region of which one shall be in the vernacular language of the locality concerned and a copy of the same shall be forwarded to the Regional office. Project authorities shall inform the Regional Office as well as the Ministry, the date of financial closure and final approval of the project by the concerned authorities and the date of commencing the land development work.

5 5.0. The Ministry may revoke or suspend the clearance, if implementation of any of the above conditions is not satisfactory The Ministry reserves the right to stipulate additional conditions if found necessary. The Company in a time bound manner will implement these conditions The above conditions shall be enforced, inter-alia under the provisions of the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986, Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2003 and the Public (Insurance) Liability Act, 1991 along with their amendments and rules Copy to:- (Dr. P. B. Rastogi) Additional Director 1. The Secretary, State Department of Environment, Govt. of Orissa, Bhubaneswar, Orissa. 2. Chairman, Central Pollution Control Board, Parivesh Bhavan, CBD-cum-Office Complex, East Arjun Nagar, New Delhi Chairman, Orissa Bengal Pollution Control Board, Parivesh Bhavan, A/118, Neelkanthhanagar, Unit-8, Bhubaneswar , Orissa. 4. The Chief Conservator of Forests (Eastern), Regional Office (EZ), A/3, Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar , Orissa. 5. Monitoring Cell, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Paryavaran Bhavan, CGO Complex, New Delhi. 6. Monitoring Cell 7. Guard File. 8. Record File. (Dr. P. B. Rastogi) Additional Director...,