He said he plans to place before the National Green Tribunal’s Pune bench the court’s clarification on the EIA notification of 1994 (EIA 94) and 2006. The bench is hearing a matter, in which Goa Foundation is a co-petitioner, dealing with validity of clearances granted under EIA 94 to 24 mines in the state. The matter stems from the case of MS Talaulicar & Sons disposed by the Supreme Court in July last year.During the hearing of Odisha matter, mining firms had argued that EIA 94 was “uncertain and ambiguous” requiring the MoEF to issue several clarifications. The Supreme Court clarified the issue in its order in the MC Mehta case. Industries across sectors continue to operate on ECs granted under EIA 94 on the presumption that they remained valid after the 2006 notification dropped the “five years”

Source: Economic Times August 07, 2017 18:30 UTC