Municipal Wastes (Management & Handling) Rules

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THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY

PART II — Section 3 — Sub-section (ii)

New Delhi, the 27th September, 1999

S. O. 783 (E)— The following draft of the Municipal Wastes (Management & Handling) Rules, 1999, which the Central Government proposes to make in exercise of the powers conferred by Sections 3, 6 and 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), are hereby published for information of all persons likely to be affected hereby; and notice is hereby given that the said draft rules shall be taken into consideration after the expiry of period of sixty days from the date on which copies of the Gazette of India containing this notification are made available to the public;

Any person desirous of making any suggestion or objection in respect to the said draft rules, may forward the same for consideration of the Central Government within the period so specified to the Secretary, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Paryavaran Bhawan, CGO Complex, Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110003.1. Short title and commencement

(1) These rules may be called the Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 1999.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Application, —

These rules shall apply to every Municipal Authority responsible for collection, segregation, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid wastes.

3. Definitions, —

In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires:-

(i) "anaerobic digestion"means digestion of organic matter in absence of molecular oxygen;

(ii) "biodegradable substance" means a substance that can be degraded by microorganisms;

(iii) "collection" means collection and removal of solid wastes from different collection points;

(iv) "composting" means a controlled process involving microbial degradation of organic matter;

(v) "demolition and construction waste" means wastes from building materials debris and rubble resulting from construction, remodelling, repair and demolition operation;

(vi) "disposal" means final disposal of municipal solid waste;

(vii) "Form" means Form appended to these rules;

(viii) "land-filling" means disposal of solid wastes by spreading it in layers over a lined surface or land, compacting it to the smallest practical volume and covering it by impervious soil layer at the end of the day or more frequently. A land-fill is operated to prevent leachate from contaminating ground water and maintaining ambient air quality;

(ix) "leachate" means liquid that seeped through solid waste or other medium and has extracted dissolved or suspended material from it;

(x) "lysimeter" a device used to measure rate of movement of water through or from a soil layer or used to collect percolated water for quality analysis;

(xi) "Municipal authority" means Municipal Corporation, Municipality, Nagar Palika, Nagar Nigam, Nagar Panchayat/Municipal council or any other local body and, where the management of municipal solid waste is entrusted to an agency; such agency;

(xii) "municipal solid waste" includes commercial and residential wastes generated from a community;

(xiii) "operator of the facility" Municipal authority or any other agency appointed by the municipal authority for management and handling of municipal solid waste in the area;

(xiv) "processing" means processed for making use by adopting process like recycling or composting, or both;

(xv) "recycling" means the process by which waste materials are transformed into new products in such a manner that the original products lose their identity;

(xvi) "schedule" means a schedule appended to these rules;

(xvii) "vadose water" water which occurs between the ground, surface and the water table, i.e., the unsaturated zone;

(xviii) "vermicomposting" is a process of using earthworms as a natural bioreactor to convert biodegradable waste into biofertilizer (vermicasting).

4. Responsibility of Municipal authority )

(1) Every municipal authority shall, within the territorial area of the municipality, be responsible for the implementation of the provisions of these rules, and for any infrastructure development for collection, storage segregation, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid wastes.

(2) The Municipal authorities shall comply with these rules as per the implementation schedule laid down in Schedule I.

(3) The Municipal authority shall furnish its annual report in Form - I to the District Magistrate or the Deputy Commissioner, who shall forward the report to the State Pollution Control Board or as the case may be to the Pollution Control Committee in Union Territories.

5. Power of the District Magistrate or the Deputy Commissioner, —

The District Magistrate or the Deputy Commissioner of the concerned district shall have the overall responsibility for the enforcement of the provisions of these rules.

6. State Boards to monitor enforcement of rules, —

The State Pollution Control Board or as the case may be, the Pollution Control Committee in the Union Territory shall monitor the collection of samples, their analysis and compliance with standards regarding ground water, ambient air and leachate quality, and from time to time require the District Magistrate or the Deputy Commissioner of the concerned District or the Municipal Authority to take steps as may be necessary for proper implementation of these rules.

7. Central Pollution Control Board to coordinate with State Boards and Committees, —

The Central Pollution Control Board shall coordinate with the State Pollution Control Boards and the Pollution Control Committees in the matters of municipal solid waste disposal and its management and handling.

8. Management of Municipal Solid Waste, —

(1) Any municipal solid waste generated in a city or a town, shall be managed in accordance with the compliance criteria and the procedure laid down in Schedule - II.

(2) The disposal of municipal solid wastes of the specified categories shall be through land-fill as per specifications and standards laid down in Schedule - III.

(3) The standards for compost and disposal of treated leachate to be followed by the Municipal authorities shall be as laid down in Schedule - IV.

9. Annual Reports:

(1) The State Pollution Control Boards and Pollution Control Committees of Union Territories shall prepare and submit to the Central Pollution Control Board an Annual Review Report with regard to the implementation of these rules every year on or before 30th June in Form - II.

(2) The Central Pollution Control Board shall prepare the consolidated annual review report on management of municipal solid wastes and forward it to the Central Government along with its recommendations before 15th September every year.

10.Accident Reporting, —When any accident occurs at any municipal solid wastes collection, segregation, storage, processing treatment and disposal facility or land-fill site or during the transportation of such wastes, the Municipal authority shall forthwith report the accident in Form -III to the District Magistrate or the Deputy Commissioner of the concerned District.

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