Decision of the Standing Committee of the Zhongshan Municipal People's Congress on Amending the Regulations on Water Environmental Protection of Zhongshan City (2019)

I. Modify the second paragraph of Article 6 to read: "The competent department of municipal water administration is responsible for the supervision and management of the city's water resources protection, comprehensive management of rivers and water scheduling."

Amending "drainage facilities" in the third paragraph to "drainage households discharging sewage".

To amend the fourth paragraph to read: "The municipal agricultural and rural departments in charge of comprehensive improvement of livestock and poultry farms and other supervision and management work." Second, the second paragraph of Article 11 is amended to read: "The municipal ecological environment department is responsible for the preparation of water (environment) functional zoning, the municipal water administrative department according to the water (environment) functional zoning and the natural purification capacity of the water body, from the strict approval of the rivers, lakes, reservoirs and other water bodies of the capacity of the pollutants, the total amount of sewage discharged to the municipal ecological environment department to put forward a restriction on the opinion of the total amount of sewage discharged. " Third, the first paragraph of Article 12 was amended to read: "New construction, alteration, expansion of direct or indirect discharge of pollutants into the water body of the construction project, shall be carried out in accordance with the environmental impact assessment. If the environmental impact assessment document of a construction project has not been examined by the approving department according to law or has not been approved after examination, the construction unit shall not commence construction." Fourth, the second paragraph of Article 13 shall be changed to the first paragraph, and amended to read: "Enterprises, institutions and other producers and operators implementing the management of sewage discharge permits shall, in accordance with the relevant state regulations and monitoring specifications, self-monitoring of water pollutants discharged, and save the original monitoring records. Key emission units shall install automatic monitoring equipment for water pollutant discharge at the discharge outlets, network with the online monitoring equipment of the municipal ecological and environmental authorities, and ensure the normal operation of the monitoring equipment."

Add a paragraph as the second paragraph, which reads: "The implementation of sewage discharge permit management of enterprises and institutions and other production and operation shall be responsible for the authenticity and accuracy of the monitoring data." Fifth, the second paragraph of Article 15 was amended to read: "enterprises, institutions and other operators engaged in industrial, construction, catering, medical and other activities to discharge sewage into urban drainage facilities, shall apply to the municipal housing and urban-rural construction department for a license to discharge sewage into the drainage network. Discharge of sewage should be pre-treated, discharged to the centralized wastewater treatment facilities of industrial wastewater should meet the requirements of the treatment process, to meet the relevant national or local regulations on the discharge standard before being discharged into the pipeline network." Sixth, the first paragraph of Article 17 was amended to read: "Municipal ecological and environmental authorities responsible for the city's agricultural pollution prevention and control of surface pollution supervision and guidance, shall, in conjunction with the municipal departments in charge of agriculture and rural areas to develop and organize the implementation of the city's comprehensive prevention and control of agricultural surface pollution program." Seventh, the first paragraph of Article 35 shall be amended to read: "It is prohibited to discharge or dump industrial slag, urban garbage and other wastes into the inland river gushing." Deleting "water transfer and diversion" from the first paragraph of Article 37. Nine, Article 39 is amended to read: "in violation of the provisions of paragraph 1 of Article 11 of these Regulations, the discharge of water pollutants in excess of the total amount of key water pollutants discharged control indicators, the municipal ecological and environmental authorities ordered to correct or ordered to limit the production, shut down and rectification, and impose a fine of more than 300,000 yuan to less than one million yuan; the circumstances are serious, reported to the people's government with the right to approve the approval of the people's government. ordered to cease operation or close down." X. Article 41 shall be amended to read: "In violation of the provisions of Paragraph 1 of Article 13 of these Regulations, enterprises, institutions and other production operators that implement the management of sewage discharge permits fail to monitor the water pollutants discharged on their own or keep the original monitoring records in accordance with the relevant state regulations and monitoring specifications, and the key sewage disposal unit fails to install automatic water pollutant discharge monitoring equipment at the outlets or to networked with the monitoring equipment of the municipal ecological and environmental authorities, or fails to ensure the normal operation of the monitoring equipment, the municipal ecological and environmental authorities shall order rectification within a certain period of time, and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan and not more than 200,000 yuan; and if no rectification is made after the expiration of the period of time, the unit shall be ordered to stop production and rectify the situation."

Add a paragraph as the second paragraph, which reads: "In violation of the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 13 of these Regulations, the implementation of sewage discharge permit management of enterprises and institutions and other production operators to tamper with, falsify the monitoring data, by the municipal department in charge of ecological environment shall be ordered to make corrections or ordered to limit the production, production and remediation, and shall be imposed a fine of more than 100,000 yuan to less than one million yuan; Where the circumstances are serious, it shall be reported to the people's government with approval authority for approval and ordered to cease operation or close down." XI, Article 42 is amended to read: "In violation of the provisions of paragraph 2 of Article 15 of these Regulations, enterprises, institutions and other operators engaged in construction, catering, medical and other activities fail to discharge sewage into urban drainage facilities in accordance with the requirements of the sewage discharge into the drainage network permit, the competent department of housing and urban-rural construction in the city shall order rectification and impose a fine of not less than 20,000 yuan and not more than 50,000 yuan ; if it causes serious consequences, revoke the license for discharging sewage into the drainage network, and impose a fine of not less than 50,000 yuan and not more than 500,000 yuan, and may notify the society; if it causes losses, it shall be liable for compensation in accordance with the law."

An additional paragraph is added as the second paragraph, which reads, "In violation of the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 15 of these Regulations, where an enterprise or institution engaged in industrial activities fails to carry out pretreatment in accordance with the provisions, and discharges to a centralized sewage treatment facility industrial wastewater that does not meet the requirements of the treatment process, the municipal department responsible for ecological and environmental protection shall order rectification or order the restriction of production, suspension of production and remediation, and impose a fine of a fine of not less than one hundred thousand yuan and not more than one million yuan; if the circumstances are serious, it shall be reported to the people's government with approval authority for approval, and shall be ordered to cease operation or close down." XII. Article 47 shall be amended as follows: "If a person violates the provisions of Article 35 of these Regulations by discharging or dumping industrial wastes, urban garbage or other wastes into an inland river gushing, the competent department of ecology and environment of the city shall order the cessation of the illegal act, and take remedial measures to eliminate the pollution within a certain period of time, and impose a fine of more than RMB 20,000 yuan and less than RMB 200,000 yuan; if the person fails to take remedial measures after the expiration of the deadline, the competent department of ecology and environment of the city department in charge of ecology and environment may designate a unit with the ability to treat on behalf of the offender, and the required costs shall be borne by the offender."