Official Reply of the State Council to Issues concerning Acid Rain Control Zones and Sulphur Dioxide Pollution Control Zones

Official Reply of the State Council to Issues concerning Acid Rain Control Zones and Sulphur Dioxide Pollution Control Zones

Guo Han [1998] No. 5

January 12, 1998

State Environmental Protection Administration,

We have received the Request of your Agency for Approval of the Plan for Delimiting Acid Rain Control Zones and Sulphur Dioxide Pollution Control Zones (Huanfa [1997] No. 634). Our reply is hereby sent to you as follows:

I. We have approved the Plan for Delimiting Acid Rain Control Zones and Sulphur Dioxide Pollution Control Zones in principle and Your Bureau can promulgate the plan. We also approve the delimitation of acid rain control zones and sulphur dioxide pollution control zones (Hereinafter referred to "the two types of control zones". See the appendices for the details).

II. The objectives of the two types of control zones: By the year 2000, the industrial pollution sources discharging sulphur dioxide will have attained the standard for discharging sulphur dioxide and a system for controlling the total amount of discharged sulphur dioxide will have been practised; in municipalities directly under the Central Government, capital cities of provinces, cities as special economic zones, open coastal cities and major tourist cities which are polluted by sulphur dioxide, the density of sulphur dioxide in the environment air will have attained the national environmental quality standards and the worsening of acid rain in the acid rain control zones will have been alleviated.
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