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Read the following passage carefully:

Under the 2026 Regional Industrial Water Recycling Mandate, manufacturing units operating within designated industrial corridors are required to treat and reuse at least 60 percent of their operational wastewater, unless they possess an active Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD) exemption certificate. Exemption certificates are issued exclusively to facilities utilizing air-cooled condensation systems that consume less than 5,000 liters of freshwater daily. The mandate further specifies that any facility failing to achieve the 60 percent wastewater recycling threshold without holding a valid ZLD exemption certificate will incur a daily administrative fine until compliance is established.

Based on the passage above, evaluate the truth of the following statement:

A manufacturing unit operating within a designated industrial corridor that consumes 4,000 liters of freshwater daily using an air-cooled condensation system is automatically exempt from daily administrative fines for not recycling wastewater, even if it has not been issued a ZLD exemption certificate.

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The statement is False. Fulfilling the eligibility conditions (using air-cooled condensation and consuming less than 5,000 liters of freshwater daily) qualifies a facility for an exemption certificate, but the passage strictly requires holding an active certificate to be exempt from daily administrative fines.
The passage imposes penalties on any non-recycling unit that does not hold an active ZLD exemption certificate. Meeting the underlying technical specifications (air-cooled system consuming under 5,000 liters daily) merely makes a unit eligible to receive a certificate, but does not provide automatic protection against fines if the certificate has not actually been issued.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the core rule and conditions in the passage.
Manufacturing units must recycle 60% of operational wastewater UNLESS they hold an active ZLD exemption certificate.
Establishes the baseline requirement and the sole stated condition for legal exemption from wastewater recycling.
2
Analyze the criteria for obtaining a ZLD exemption certificate.
Certificates are granted exclusively to facilities using air-cooled condensation systems consuming less than 5,000 liters of freshwater daily.
Determines the prerequisite eligibility criteria to be issued a certificate, not the exemption itself.
3
Evaluate the statement's logical premise against the passage facts.
The statement assumes that meeting the eligibility criteria grants automatic exemption without holding the certificate. However, the text explicitly specifies that failing the 60% threshold 'without holding a valid ZLD exemption certificate' incurs fines.
Concludes that eligibility for a certificate is logically distinct from actually possessing the certificate required by the mandate.

Key Concept

Distinction between eligibility criteria for an exemption and possessing the mandatory formal certificate
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