Measures for the Administration of Automatic Monitoring of Pollution Sources

Measures for the Administration of Automatic Monitoring of Pollution Sources Order of the State Environmental Protection Administration of China (No.28) The Measures for the Automatic Monitoring of Pollution Sources, which were adopted at the 10th executive meeting of the State Environmental Protection Administration on July 7th, 2005, are hereby promulgated, and shall come into force as of November 1st, 2005. Director General of the State Environmental Protection Administration Xie Zhenhua September 19, 2005 Measures for the Automatic Monitoring of Pollution Sources Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 With a view to strengthening the monitoring of pollution sources, implementing the system of total pollutant emission control, the system of pollutant discharge license and the system of fee charging for pollutant discharge, preventing pollution accidents, and improving the level of environment management based on science and information, the present Measures are formulated in accordance with the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution , Law on the Prevention and Control of Air Pollution , Law on the Prevention and Control of Pollution by Environment Noise , Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Law on the Prevention and Control of Water Pollution , Regulation on the Environmental Protection of Construction Projects , and the Regulation on the Collection and Use of Pollutant Discharge Fees , and other relevant laws and regulations on environmental protection. Article 2 The present Measures shall be applicable to the supervision and administration of the automatic monitoring system for the key sources of pollution. The present Measures shall be followed in the construction, management and operation maintenance of the automatic monitoring system for the discharge of water pollutants, air pollutants and noise at the key sources of pollution. Article 3 The "automatic monitoring system" as mentioned in the present Measures shall consist of automatic monitoring equipments and a monitoring center. The automatic monitoring equipments shall refer to the apparatuses and flow (current) meters installed on the site of pollution sources, which are used for monitoring and supervising over pollutant discharge, operational recorders for the pollution prevention and control facilities, data collection and transmission apparatuses, and other instrument and apparatuses, which are a component part of the facilities for the prevention and control of pollution. The monitoring center shall refer to the computer software and equipment which are used by the environmental protection departments to link communications transmission circuits and the automatic monitoring equipments so as to achieve the automatic monitoring of the key pollution sources. Article 4 If any automatic monitoring system is found to meet the standard upon the examination of the environmental protection department and operates normally, its data shall be regarded as the basis for the environmental protection department to conduct such environmental supervision and administration as verifying the application for pollutant discharge, issuing pollutant discharge licenses, controlling the total volume of discharged pollutants, making environmental statistics, collecting pollution discharge fees, and conducting on-site environment law enforcement, and shall be published to the society in light of the relevant provisions. Article 5 The State Environmental Protection Administration shall be responsible for guiding the work of automatic monitoring on key pollution sources countrywide, and formulate relevant work systems and technical specifications. The local environmental protection departments shall, on the basis of the requirements of the State Environmental Protection Administration, and in light of the principle of overall planning, ensuring the focal points with due consideration to ordinary ones, and doing according to their abilities, determine the key pollution sources that shall be subject to automatic monitoring, and formulate work plans. Article 6 An environmental supervision organ shall be responsible for the following work: 1. Taking part in the formulation of work plans and organizing the im......