Notice on further regulating environmental management of sewage treatment in cities and towns (parks)

Second, all localities should clarify the pollutant discharge control requirements of sewage treatment plants according to law and regulations, avoid blindly tightening or being too lenient, and support areas with heavy water ecological environment improvement tasks and ecological water shortage through ecological measures such as the construction of constructed wetlands water purification projects at key nodes such as the downstream of sewage treatment plants and rivers into lakes to play a role together with sewage treatment plants. We will further improve the quality of the water ecological environment.

The third is to encourage operating units and management enterprises to sign entrusted processing contracts, agreeing on monitoring, information sharing, emergency response, breach of contract compensation and other contents. On the basis of clear responsibility, the operation unit and the management enterprise can negotiate to determine the concentration of industrial sewage management, submit it to the ecological environment department and enter the pollutant discharge permit in accordance with the law, as a basis for supervision and management.

The fourth is to reasonably identify the responsibility for the treatment of exceeding the standard, for the sewage treatment plant effluent exceeding the standard, the illegal act is minor and corrected in time, and no harmful consequences are caused, according to the relevant provisions of the State can not be punished. If the competent department of the industry, or the department of ecological environment, or the competent department of the industry jointly with the department of ecological environment determines that the operating unit has indeed exceeded the water standard due to water exceeding the design provisions or actual processing capacity, and proactively reports and proactively eliminates or reduces the harmful consequences of environmental violations, the administrative punishment shall be lighter or mitigated according to law.

Q: How to ensure the implementation of the Notice?

A: On the one hand, the ecological environment department has taken the initiative to strengthen coordination and linkage with the relevant departments of housing, construction and water affairs, increase policy publicity and implementation, strengthen guidance and assistance, and encourage all parties to perform their duties and improve environmental management. On the other hand, the ecological environment department, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations and the division of responsibilities, strictly supervise and enforce the law, investigate and punish environmental violations according to law, and reasonably identify the responsibility for exceeding the effluent of sewage treatment plants, promote the healthy development of the sewage treatment industry, and make positive contributions to the protection and construction of beautiful rivers and lakes.