(1) The occupiers of facilities may store the hazardous and other wastes for a period not exceeding ninety days and shall maintain a record of sale, transfer, storage, recycling, recovery, pre-processing, co-processing and utilisation of such wastes and make these records available for inspection:
Provided that the State Pollution Control Board may extend the said period of ninety days in following cases, namely:-
(i) small generators (up to ten tonnes per annum) up to one hundred and eighty days of their annual capacity;
(ii) actual users and disposal facility operators up to one hundred and eighty days of their annual capacity,
(iii) occupiers who do not have access to any treatment, storage, disposal facility in the concerned State; or
(iv) the waste which needs to be specifically stored for development of a process for its recycling, recovery, pre-processing, co-processing or utilisation;
(v) in any other case, on justifiable grounds up to one hundred and eighty days.