(1)

37.

38.

(2)
(3)
compounds/solvents
36.2 Spent carbon or filter medium
Hazardous
waste
treatment 37.1 Sludge from wet scrubbers
processes, e.g. pre-processing, 37.2 Ash from incinerator and flue gas cleaning
incineration and concentration
residue
37.3 Concentration or evaporation residues
Chemical processing of Ores 38.1 Process residues
containing heavy metals such as 38.2 Spent acid
Chromium, Manganese, Nickel,
Cadmium etc.

* The inclusion of wastes contained in this Schedule does not preclude the use of
Schedule II to demonstrate that the waste is not hazardous. In case of dispute, the
matter would be referred to the Technical Review Committee constituted by Ministry of
Environment, Forest and Climate Change.
Note: The high volume low effect wastes such as fly ash, Phosphogypsum, red mud, jarosite,
Slags from pyrometallurgical operations, mine tailings and ore beneficiation rejects are excluded
from the category of hazardous wastes. Separate guidelines on the management of these wastes
shall be issued by Central Pollution Control Board.

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SCHEDULE II
[See rule 3 (1) (17) (ii)]
List of waste constituents with concentration limits
Class A: Based on leachable concentration limits [Toxicity Characteristic Leaching
Procedure (TCLP) or Soluble Threshold Limit Concentration (STLC)]
Class

Constituents

(1)
A1
A2
A3
A4

(2)

A5
A6
A7
A8
A9
A10
A11
A12
A13
A14
A15
A16
A17
A18
A19
A20
A21
A22
A23
A24
A25
A26
A27
A28
A29
A30
A31
A32
A33
A34
A35
A36
A37
A38

Arsenic
Barium
Cadmium
Chromium and/or Chromium (III)
compounds
Lead
Manganese
Mercury
Selenium
Silver
Ammonia
Cyanide
Nitrate (as nitrate-nitrogen)
Sulphide (as H2S)
1,1-Dichloroethylene
1,2-Dichloroethane
1,4-Dichlorobenzene
2,4,5-Trichlorophenol
2,4,6-Trichlorophenol
2,4-Dinitrotoluene
Benzene
Benzo (a) Pyrene
Bromodicholromethane
Bromoform
Carbon tetrachloride
Chlorobenzene
Chloroform
Cresol (ortho+ meta+ para)
Dibromochloromethane
Hexachlorobenzene
Hexachlorobutadiene
Hexachloroethane
Methyl ethyl ketone
Naphthalene
Nitrobenzene
Pentachlorophenol
Pyridine
Tetrachloroethylene
Trichloroethylene

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Concentration in
mg/l
(3)
5.0
100.0
1.0
5.0
5.0
10.0
0.2
1.0
5.0
50*
20*
1000.0
5.0
0.7
0.5
7.5
400.0
2.0
0.13
0.5
0.001
6.0
10.0
0.5
100.0
6.0
200.0
10.0
0.13
0.5
3.0
200.0
5.0
2.0
100.0
5.0
0.7
0.5