Regulations on the Management of Pollutant Discharge in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (2019 Amendment)

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 In order to strengthen the supervision and management of pollutant discharge and to protect and improve the environment, these regulations are formulated in accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China and relevant laws and regulations, and in the light of the actual situation of the autonomous region. Article 2 These Regulations shall apply to the discharge of pollutants and their supervision and management activities in production and business activities within the administrative area of the autonomous region. Article 3 The pollutants referred to in these regulations, refers to the production and business activities discharged into the environment, affecting the normal composition of the environment, resulting in changes in the nature of the environment, directly or indirectly harmful to biological and human substances. Article 4 The ecological and environmental authorities of the people's governments at or above the county level to implement unified supervision and management of pollutant discharge in the administrative region.

Related departments of the people's governments at or above the county level shall, in accordance with their respective responsibilities, do a good job in the supervision and management of pollutant discharge according to law. Article 5 The people's governments at or above the county level shall increase the protection and improvement of the environment, prevention and control of pollution of the capital investment, develop and organize the implementation of policies and incentives conducive to reducing the discharge of pollutants. Article 6 of the reduction of pollutant emissions have remarkable achievements of units and individuals, by the people's governments at or above the county level to give incentives.

Encourage the public to supervise the work of the competent ecological and environmental authorities, and report violations of pollutant emissions. Chapter II Total Pollutant Emission Control Article 7 The autonomous region to implement the total emission control system for key pollutants.

The key pollutants referred to in these regulations, refers to the state to determine the implementation of key control pollutants.

The total emission control of key pollutants referred to in these regulations, refers to the total emission of key pollutants through the allocation of key pollutant emission targets to a certain area and sewage units, the total amount of key pollutants discharged by a certain region and sewage units to control the pollution control methods within the prescribed limits. Article 8 The people's government of the autonomous region shall, on the basis of the national key pollutant emission control targets, combined with the level of economic and social development of the autonomous region, environmental capacity, environmental quality, the current situation of pollutant emissions, the development of autonomous regions of the key pollutant emission control targets and decomposition and implementation of the program.

The people's governments of cities and counties (municipalities) in the districts shall, in accordance with the key pollutant emission control targets and decomposition of the implementation of the program developed by the people's government of the previous level, formulate the key pollutant emission control targets within the administrative area, annual plans, control measures, and decomposition and implementation of the key pollutant emission control targets for the total emissions of emissions into the sewage disposal unit. Article 9 Environmental capacity is a public **** environmental resources. The people's government of the autonomous region shall establish environmental capacity, environmental quality, the total discharge of key pollutants connected quantitative management system. Article 10 The autonomous region to implement the total amount of key pollutant emissions budget management system, the right to pay for the use of sewage and trading system, the specific measures developed by the autonomous regional people's government in accordance with the principles of fairness, justice, and conducive to the improvement of environmental quality and optimize the allocation of environmental resources. Chapter III Pollutant Emission Permit Article 11 The autonomous region of water pollutants, air pollutant emissions licensing system.

Noise, solid waste, hazardous waste, radioactive substances and nuclear, electromagnetic radiation and other pollutants discharge permit management, in accordance with relevant state regulations. Article XII of the following pollutant discharge units shall apply for a pollutant discharge permit:

(a) directly or indirectly to the water discharge of industrial wastewater, medical sewage, as well as other pollutants should be discharged according to law to obtain a permit to discharge wastewater, sewage enterprises, institutions and other production and operation;

(b) towns, industrial parks, wastewater, sewage centralized treatment facilities operating units

(C) the emission of industrial waste gas or national list of toxic and hazardous air pollutants in the air pollutants in the enterprises, institutions, centralized heating facilities, coal-fired heat production and operation units, as well as other sewage disposal units in accordance with the implementation of sewage discharge permit management. Article 13 The application for obtaining a pollutant discharge permit emissions unit shall have the following conditions:

(1) production capacity, processes, equipment, products in line with national and regional industrial policy requirements;

(2) construction project environmental impact assessment documents approved by the competent department of ecological and environmental protection;

(3) prevention and control of pollution facilities in line with the environmental impact assessment documents requirements;

(iv) pollutant discharge meets the requirements of the state and autonomous region's prescribed standards, and total key pollutant discharge control indicators;

(v) regulated outfalls are set up in accordance with the regulations;

(vi) monitoring equipment is installed in accordance with the regulations and networked with the competent department of ecology and environment;

(vii) there are contingency plans for responding to environmental emergencies;

(viii) there is a contingency plan for dealing with environmental emergencies; and plan;

(viii) other conditions prescribed by laws and regulations. Article 14 The competent ecological and environmental department of the people's government at or above the county level shall make a decision within twenty days from the date of accepting the application for a pollutant discharge license. Meet the prescribed conditions, issued a pollutant discharge permit, and to the community to publicize the name of the sewage disposal unit, the permit; does not meet the prescribed conditions, not permit, shall state the reasons and inform the sewage disposal unit in writing of the application. Article XV of the pollutant discharge permit shall contain the name of the discharge unit, the type of pollutant discharge, discharge concentration, the amount of discharge, discharge mode, validity period, outfall settings, pollution prevention and control processes and facilities and other matters.

The first issuance of emission permits are valid for three years, the continuation of the renewal of emission permits are valid for five years. Through the trading method to obtain the right to discharge, the validity of the pollutant discharge permit is the same as the remaining period of use of the transferor of the right to discharge.