1. Pollution Abatement & Prevention

The applicant must take adequate measures to control pollution in respect of wastewater discharges, air and noise emissions to meet the stipulated environmental standards.

It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that wastes are disposed so as to minimize effects in all three environmental media (air, water, land) thus achieving the optimum environmental solution overall, through Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO) and "Best Available Technology"(BAT).

For this purpose an applicant of the EPL is required to assess the pollution levels which are caused due to the operation of such industrial activity by measuring such discharges and emissions from a recognized Laboratory.

List of specialists/consultants

List of Laboratories

Measurement of certain environmental parameters or assessment has to be carried out by certain industrialists in order to prove that the pollution levels conform to the standards stipulated by the CEA. The applicant has to take appropriate pollution abatement measures if the discharges and emissions levels exceed the stipulated environmental standards.

A list of specialists/consultants has been prepared by the CEA for the purpose of facilitating the industrialists to obtain necessary technological guidance and advice / consultancy to control the environmental pollution. Also a list of Laboratories has been prepared from where the industrialists could get their waste or air sample tested to check that their samples conform to the CEA Standards

It was revealed that some industrialists face problems with the consultancy provided by some consultants/specialists. Some others face problems in submitting quality and accurate reports of the environmental parameters. In order to facilitate the industrialists to overcome these problems faced and to provide better service to the industrial community the CEA review and update the existing consultants and laboratories lists from time to time to assess their performance. .

If any specialists/consultants or laboratory wishes to register themselves with the CEA they have to submit the completed Registration Form along with the

    * Business Registration
    * The Company Profile
    * Customer satisfaction letters from 03 successfully completed projects.

The fee for the registration of a Consultant/Specialist/Laboratory is Rs. 7500/=. Annual subscription fee is Rs 10,000/=

2. High & Medium Polluting Industries Siting Committee:

A committee is formed to determine the siting of High and Medium Polluting Industries outside of Industrial Estates, Export Processing Zones. This is one of the important decision making committee of the EPC Unit. This committee consists of members from the BOI, NWS&DB, Industrial Ministry, UDA and the CEA.
Main objective of this committee is to minimize the water pollution caused by industrial effluents mainly to the Kelani River as the Kelani River provides raw water from Ambatale for the supplying of almost 75% of the demand in the Greater Colombo Area. But now the committee considers the H&M industries along some other inland waters also.

By a Cabinet Memorandum Guidelines have been prepared for the siting of Industries in the vicinity of Kelani River.