What enterprises need a sewage license

(i) discharging air pollutants into the environment;

(ii) discharging, directly or indirectly, industrial wastewater and medical wastewater, as well as other wastewater and sewage containing toxic and hazardous substances, such as heavy metals, radioactive substances, pathogens and other toxic and hazardous substances, into a body of water; centralized municipal wastewater treatment facilities;

(iii) generating ambient noise pollution due to the use of stationary equipment in industrial production, or In the urban area of noise-sensitive buildings in the urban area due to the use of fixed equipment in commercial business activities to generate environmental noise pollution;

(d) the generation of industrial solid wastes or hazardous wastes.

Except for units that are required by law to apply for a hazardous waste management license.

Dumping of wastes into the sea, discharge of pollutants from plantation and non-intensive farming, non-concentrated discharge of pollutants into the environment from daily life of residents and discharge of pollutants from mobile sources such as motor vehicles, railroad locomotives, ships and aircraft are not subject to the Regulations.

Expanded Information

"Emission Permit" is the abbreviation of "Permit for Discharging Pollutants", and it is stipulated in the "Regulations on the Administration of Emission Permits" (draft for comments) that "the state implements permit management for the discharge of exhaust gas, wastewater, the generation of ambient noise pollution and solid wastes in the course of production and operation.

The following enterprises, institutions and individual industrial and commercial households (hereinafter referred to as dischargers) that discharge pollutants directly or indirectly into the environment within the administrative area of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China shall apply for a discharge permit in accordance with the provisions of these Regulations."

References

Discharge Permit_Baidu Encyclopedia?