The document discusses environmental management and related concepts. It defines an environmental management system as a comprehensive, systematic approach to managing an organization's environmental programs. An EMS follows a plan-do-check-act cycle and aims for continual improvement. The document also describes environmental impact assessments, which examine potential effects of projects/policies, and environmental audits, which assess compliance and identify improvement opportunities. It outlines several key Indian environmental laws regarding air and water pollution, biodiversity, forests, and more.

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 INTRODUCTION:
Environmental Management System (EMS) refers to the management of an
organization’s environmental programs in a comprehensive, systematic,
planned and documented manner. It includes the organizational structure,
planning and resources for developing, implementing and maintaining policy
for environmental protection.

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 Features of Environmental Management System:
 Serves as a tool, or process, to improve environmental performance
 Provides a systematic way of managing an organization’s
environmental affairs
 Creates environmental buy-in from management and employees and
assigns accountability and responsibility
 Focuses on continual improvement of the system and a way to
implement policies and objectives to meet a desired result
 Encourages contractors and suppliers to establish their own EMS

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 EMS MODEL:
An EMS follows a Plan-Do-Check-Act, or PDCA, Cycle. The diagram shows the
process of first developing an environmental policy, planning the EMS, and then
implementing it. The process also includes checking the system and acting on it.
The model is continuous because an EMS is a process of continual improvement
in which an organization is constantly reviewing and revising the system.

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 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA):
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) means a formalized procedure for
examination, analysis and assessment for planned activities with a view
to ensuring environmentally sound and sustainable development. It is
defined as “an anticipatory, participatory integrative environmental
management tool, which has ultimate objective of providing information
to the decision makers with an indication of the likely consequences of their
decision relating to new projects or programs, plans or policies.”

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 Schematic Representation of EIA Process:

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 Benefits of EIA:
 Reduced cost and time of project implementation
 Cost saving modification in project design
 Improved Project performance
 Improved human health
 Maintenance biodiversity
 Decreased resource use
 A healthier local environment
 Increased community skills, knowledge and pride

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 Methods of EIA:
 Industrial products - Product environmental life cycle analysis (LCA) is used for
identifying and measuring the impact of industrial products on the environment.
These EIAs consider activities related to extraction of raw materials, ancillary
materials, equipment; production, use, disposal and ancillary equipment.
 Genetically modified plants - Specific methods available to perform EIAs
of genetically modified organisms include GMP-RAM and INOVA.
 EIA methods need measurement data to estimate values of impact indicators.
However, many of the environment impacts cannot be quantified, e.g. landscape
quality, lifestyle quality and social acceptance. Instead information from similar
EIAs, expert judgment and community sentiment are employed. Approximate
reasoning methods known as fuzzy logic can be used.

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 Environmental Audit:
Environmental Audits are intended to quantify environmental
performance and environmental position. In this way they perform an
analogous function to financial audits. An environmental Audit report
ideally contains a statement of environmental performance and
environmental position, and may also aim to define what needs to be
done to sustain or improve on indicators of such performance and
position.

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 Scopes of Environmental Audit:
 Verification of legislative and regulatory compliance
 Assessment of internal policy and procedural conformance
 Establishment of current practice status
 Identification of improvement opportunities

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 Environmental Protection Law:
"environmental and natural resources law" - is a collective term describing
the network of treaties, statutes, regulations, common and customary laws
addressing the effects of human activity on the natural environment. The
core environmental law regimes address environmental pollution. A related
but distinct set of regulatory regimes, now strongly influenced by
environmental legal principles, focus on the management of specific natural
resources, such as forests, minerals, or fisheries. Other areas, such as
environmental impact assessment, may not fit neatly into either category,
but are nonetheless important components of environmental law.

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 Air Pollution Control Act:
The Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 (Pub.L. 84–159, ch. 360, 69 Stat. 322)
was the first Clean Air Act (United States) enacted by Congress to address
the national environmental problem of air pollution on July 14, 1955. This
was "an act to provide research and technical assistance relating to air
pollution control".
The Air Pollution Control Act contained no provisions for the federal
government to actively combat air pollution by punishing polluters. The next
Congressional statement on air pollution would come with the Clean Air Act
of 1963. California was the first state to act against air pollution when the
metropolis of Los Angeles began to notice deteriorating air quality. The
location of Los Angeles furthered the problem as several geographical and
meteorological problems unique to the area exacerbated the air pollution
problem.

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 Before the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955, air pollution was not
considered a national environmental problem.

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 Water Pollution Control Act:
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in India. Its objective
is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of
the nation's waters by preventing point and nonpoint pollution sources,
providing assistance to publicly owned treatment works for the improvement
of waste water treatment, and maintaining the integrity of wetlands.

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 List of Environmental Laws in India:
 Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981
 Biological Diversity Act, 2002
 Environment (Protection) Act, 1986
 Forest Conservation Act, 1980
 Hazardous Waste Handling and Management Act, 1989
 Indian Forest Act, 1927

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 National Green Tribunal Act, 2010
 Noise Pollution rule
 Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act of 2001
 Public Liability Insurance Act, 1991
 The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest
Rights) Act, 2006
 Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution), 1974
 Wild Life (Protection) Amendment Act, 2002
 Wildlife Protection Act of 1972

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