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New rules for contaminated site management 2025
August 2 , 2025
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- The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) notified the Environment Protection (Management of Contaminated Sites) Rules, 2025 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986.
- The rules cover 189 hazardous substances listed under the Hazardous and Other Wastes Rules, 2016, excluding radioactive, mining, oil spill, and solid waste cases.
- The Local bodies must report suspected sites twice yearly; State Pollution Control Boards (SPCBs) assess and inform the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
- Polluters must fund clean-up using approved agencies; if untraceable, SPCBs will execute and governments may fund initially.
- Polluters must repay costs within 3 months; new landowners are also held liable.
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