Measures for the Administration of Environmental Surveillance

Measures for the Administration of Environmental Surveillance Order of the State Environmental Protection Administration (No. 39) The Measures for the Administration of Environmental Surveillance are hereby issued and shall be effective as of September 1, 2007. Director-General of the State Environmental Protection Administration: Zhou Shengxian July 25, 2007 Measures for the Administration of Environmental Surveillance Article 1 In order to strengthen the administration of environmental surveillance, these Measures have been made in accordance with the Law on Environmental Protection and other relevant laws and administrative regulations. Article 2 These Measures shall apply to the administration of the following environmental surveillance activities of an environmental protection authority at or above the county level: 1. Environmental quality surveillance; 2. Supervisory surveillance of pollution sources; 3. Environmental pollution emergency response surveillance; and 4. Other environmental surveillance activities for the provision of surveillance data for such environmental administrative activities as investigation and assessment of the environmental condition. Article 3 The environmental surveillance shall be a statutory responsibility of an environmental protection authority at or above the county level. An environmental protection authority at or above the county level shall build an advanced environmental surveillance system according to the requirements for accurate data, strong representativeness, scientific methods and timely transmission, so as to provide a policy basis for such environmental administrative work as fully reflecting the environmental quality and trend of changes, timely tracing the changes of pollution sources and accurately warning of various environmental emergencies. Article 4 An environmental protection authority at or above the county level shall uniformly supervise and administer the environmental surveillance within its administrative region, and perform the following primary functions: 1. Making and organizing the implementation of an environmental surveillance development scheme and an annual working plan; 2. Forming a directly subordinate surveillance body, and organizing and implementing the building of environmental surveillance capabilities according to the state standards for the building of environmental surveillance bodies; 3. Establishing a quality review and inspection system of environmental surveillance work; 4. Organizing the compilation of an environmental surveillance report, and releasing the environmental surveillance information; 5. Legally forming an environmental surveillance network, establishing a network administrative system, and organizing the administration of network operation; and 6. Organizing the science and technology research on environmental surveillance and the international cooperation and technical exchange. The State Environmental Protection Administration shall form, in good time, a directly subordinate cross-border environmental surveillance body. Article 5 A subordinate environmental surveillance body of an environmental protection authority at or above the county level shall specifically do the following major technical support work on environmental surveillance: 1. Carrying out the environmental quality surveillance, supervisory surveillance of pollution sources, and environmental pollution emergency response surveillance; 2. Building and operating an environmental surveillance network, collecting and managing the environmental surveillance data, carrying out the investigation and assessment of environment condition, and compiling an environment surveillance report; 3. Taking charge of the technical training of environmental surveillance staff; 4. Carrying out the science and technology research in the field of environmental surveillance, the research on technical specifications and rules for environmental surveillance, and the international cooperation and exchange; and 5. Carrying out other technical support work on environmental surveillance as delegated by the environmental protection authority. Article 6 The State Environmental Protection Administration shall be responsible for making uniform technical specifications for environmental surveillance according to law......