Interim Measures for the Administration of Urban Sewage Treatment Fees in Anhui Province

Article 1 In order to standardize the collection, use and management of urban sewage treatment fees and ensure the construction, maintenance and normal operation of centralized urban sewage treatment facilities, these Measures are formulated in accordance with the provisions of the Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution and in light of the actual situation of this province. Article 2 These Measures shall apply to the collection, use and management of urban sewage treatment fees within the administrative area of this province. Article 3 Local people's governments at or above the county level shall strengthen their leadership in the collection, use and management of urban sewage treatment fees, and coordinate and solve problems in the collection and use of urban sewage treatment fees in a timely manner. Fourth provincial people's government construction administrative departments responsible for guiding the collection and use of urban sewage treatment fees within the administrative area of this province.

The department responsible for urban sewage treatment determined by the people's government of the city or county (hereinafter referred to as the administrative department in charge of urban sewage treatment) is specifically responsible for the collection and management of urban sewage treatment fees within its administrative area.

Finance, price, auditing and other departments shall, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, do a good job in the supervision of the collection and use of urban sewage treatment fees. Article 5 Units and individuals (hereinafter referred to as polluters) that discharge sewage into urban centralized sewage treatment facilities within the urban planning area of this province shall pay the urban sewage treatment fee; Those who have paid the urban sewage treatment fee will no longer pay the sewage charges.

In cities that have not collected urban sewage treatment fees, the competent administrative department of urban sewage treatment of the local municipal or county people's governments shall collect urban sewage treatment fees in accordance with state regulations, and build urban centralized sewage treatment facilities and put them into operation within three years from the date of collecting urban sewage treatment fees.

The term "centralized urban sewage treatment facilities" as mentioned in these Measures refers to the general name of facilities for collecting, receiving, treating, transporting and utilizing urban sewage, including urban drainage facilities, sewage treatment plants, pumping stations and sludge disposal facilities. Article 6 The minimum charging standard of urban sewage treatment fee shall be formulated by the competent price department of the provincial people's government in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state, combined with the construction and operation costs of centralized urban sewage treatment facilities in this province, and shall be implemented after being submitted to the provincial people's government for approval.

The specific standards for charging urban sewage treatment fees shall be formulated by the competent price department of the people's government of the city or county according to the local economic development, the operation and maintenance cost of urban centralized sewage treatment facilities and the affordability of users, and in accordance with the principle of guaranteed profit and meager profit, and shall be submitted to the competent price department of the provincial people's government for the record. Seventh city sewage treatment fees charged on a monthly basis.

The use of urban public water supply polluters, the water consumption in accordance with the water meter measurement data approved; If the water meter is not installed, the water fee shall be charged according to the corresponding water consumption. The polluters who use their own water sources have installed water meters, and their water consumption is approved according to the metering data of water meters; If no water meter is installed, the water consumption should be calculated according to the nameplate flow and working time of the pump. Article 8 The urban sewage treatment fee paid by the polluters who use urban public water supply shall be collected by the urban public water supply enterprise entrusted by the urban sewage treatment administrative department of the people's government of the city or county that collects the water fee.

The polluters who use their own water sources shall pay the urban sewage treatment fee, which shall be levied by the government non-tax revenue management institutions affiliated to the financial departments of the municipal and county people's governments. Ninth in the urban public water supply pipe network coverage area, should gradually close their own water sources, the use of public water supply. The municipal and county people's governments shall strengthen the supervision and management of the collection of urban sewage treatment fees by polluters who use their own water sources.

It is forbidden for polluters to directly discharge sewage into water bodies without authorization within the coverage of urban drainage facilities in order to avoid paying urban sewage treatment fees. Tenth city sewage treatment fees shall not be reduced.

The polluter shall pay the city sewage treatment fee on a monthly basis. If it is really difficult to pay the fees on schedule, you can apply to the administrative department of urban sewage treatment of the local city or county people's government for holdover within 7 days from the date of receiving the notice of payment of sewage treatment fees. The administrative department of urban sewage treatment shall make a written decision within 7 days from the date of receiving the application; If no decision is made at the expiration of the time limit, it shall be deemed as consent. The longest holdover period of urban sewage treatment fee shall not exceed 3 months. Eleventh polluters are production and business units, and the urban sewage treatment fees paid by them can be included in the production and business costs. Article 12 The urban sewage treatment fee shall be included in the management of government non-tax revenue and turned over to the finance at the same level in full, which shall be used exclusively for the construction, operation and maintenance of centralized urban sewage treatment facilities, and shall not be withheld, misappropriated or used for other purposes. Thirteenth Huaihe River, Chaohu Lake Basin, divided into districts of the Municipal People's government to collect urban sewage treatment fees shall be approved by the construction administrative department of the provincial people's government in conjunction with the financial department. The municipal people's government of each district in the above-mentioned river basin will pay the collected urban sewage treatment fee to the provincial finance on a monthly basis. The financial department of the provincial people's government shall, jointly with the construction administrative department, conduct quarterly verification, and the provincial finance will return the paid urban sewage treatment fee in full to the city divided into districts with the amount of urban sewage treatment fee reaching the approved amount; For cities divided into districts that have not reached the approved quota, the urban sewage treatment fees paid by them will not be returned, and the provincial finance will co-ordinate the construction of centralized sewage treatment facilities in cities where the sewage treatment fees are fully collected in the above-mentioned river basins.

If a city divided into districts in the Huaihe River and Chaohu Lake Basin fails to pay the urban sewage treatment fee in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the relevant administrative departments of the province shall not approve the projects invested and constructed by the municipal government in this district.