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Environmental

Quality Standards

to be enforced

from July 1

FAISALABAD: Pakistan environmental protection agency has announced that the national environmental quality standards(NEQS) will be applicable to all the existing industrial units with effect from July 01, 1996.

According to a source of the Pak EPA, the Pakistan environmental protection council has set up an expert advisory committee to review and rationalize the national environmental quality standards (NEQS) if and where required.

The industrial units have been requested to send their specific proposals along with full justifications to the Director General Pak-EPA through the chambers of commerce or concerned association within a week.-APP