Notifications of the Ministry of Environment and Forests regarding public hearings.

The Impact Assessment Agency shall prepare a set of recommendations based on the technical assessment of documents and data furnished by the project authorities and supplemented by data collected during visits of sites of factories, if undertaken, and details of public hearing. These Notifications specify rules of procedures for public hearings in relation to environmental clearance of projects, indicate categories of thermal power plants requiring environmental clearance from the State Government, outline procedures for seeking environment clearance of projects, and specify the composition of the expert committees for environmental impact assessment.