The Head Office of the Board is located at Building No. TC-12 V, Vibhuti Khand, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow-226 010. There are 28 Regional Offices in different parts of the State as follows :

All 28 Regional Offices are headed by the officers of the rank of Environmental Officers / Scientific Officers.

There is a Central Laboratory at Head Office Lucknow and Regional Laboratories at Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddh Nagar(Noida), Kanpur, Allahabad, Jhansi, Meerut, Agra, Bareilly, Rae Bareli, Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Moradabad which carry out analysis of water, waste water, sold waste, ambient air samples and stack emission samples.

II. The powers and duties of its officers and employees :-

In order to fasten the decision making process the UPPCB has two tier system of working consisting of Head office & Regional Offices.

The Head Office is the focus for setting policies and for providing support to the Regional Offices. It is the base for Board’s Chairperson, Member Secretary and Senior Officials, whose responsibility is to ensure that the policies are delivered consistently, while allowing for local differences in environmental, social and economic climate where appropriate. The Head office issues NOC for polluting 40 category projects with and all projects attracting Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) notification. Also Consent for 40 category projects are issued at Head office. The list of 40 category projects given in  Annexure-II. The application of consent and NOC of all remaining industries (except 220 category of the industries which do not require NOC for their establishment) are disposed off at Regional Offices.

Major administrative responsibilities of the regional offices are as follows :-

• Inspection of industries, hospitals and local bodies;

• Monitoring water bodies and wastewater;

• Monitoring Ambient Air and stack emissions.

• Inspection of sites proposed for setting up of industries to verify the suitability of the same from environmental point of view;

• Offering guidance to industries and local bodies on statutory provisions;

• Furnishing details to the Head Office in matters relating to issue of Consent for NOC and Consent for Operation to industries and to attend to the works connected with investigations of complaints etc.

• Attending district level Single Window Meetings of Industries Department:

• To verify cess returns, prepare assessment orders of small scale industries & collection of cess amount under Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act, 1977 and amendments from to time.

• Co-ordinating with different agencies for issue of early clearance for establishment of new industries in the area;

• Arranging Seminars, Conferences, Training Programs and Public Awareness Programs in the area;

• To identify sites for disposal of Hazardous wastes;

• To make proposals for issue of authorization under the Hazardous Waste Management Rules;

• To assist the enforcing authorities for control of vehicular emission in the jurisdiction;

• To collect and consolidate the data in respect of schemes of NAAQM (National Ambient Air Quality Monitoring), MINARS (Monitoring Indian National Aquatic Resources System), GEMS (Global Environmental System) and Board’s Programs;

• To initiate action as per law on the complaints received in the jurisdiction;

• To receive and analyze the samples.

• To prepare/procure requirement of chemicals, equipments and instruments etc. require proper functioning of regional labs.

• Any other matter pertains to pollution at local level.

IV. THE NORMS SET BY IT FOR THE DISCHARGE OF ITS FUNCTIONS:

One of the major functions of the Board is to issue NOC, Consent, Authorization etc. to the industries. In order to ensure that this process is not delayed the Board has set itself time limits within which the process is to be completed.

Details enclosed as Annexure-III