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Heavy weight! The environmental impact assessment of construction projects involving new pollutants in six key industries needs to pass a "special checkpoint"
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2025-04-21
Construction projects in the six key industries of petrochemicals, coatings, textile printing and dyeing, rubber, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals that involve the 14 key controlled new pollutants, priority controlled chemicals, and chemical substances listed in the "List of Key Controlled New Pollutants (2023 Edition)" and the annexes of the Stockholm Convention need to undergo a new pollutant assessment.
Opinions on Strengthening the Environmental Impact Assessment of Construction Projects Involving New Pollutants in Key Industries
Ecological Environment Departments (Bureaus) of various provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government, and Ecological Environment Bureau of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps:
In order to implement the relevant requirements of the Action Plan for the Control of New Pollutants and strengthen the management of environmental impact assessments for construction projects involving new pollutants in key industries, the following opinions are proposed.
1、 Highlight management priorities
Focus on the list of newly controlled pollutants, the list of toxic and harmful pollutants, the list of priority controlled chemicals, and the environmental quality standards, pollutant emission standards, environmental monitoring method standards, or other pollutants with pollution control technologies that have been published in the annexes of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (referred to as the Stockholm Convention). Focus on the construction projects of key industries such as petrochemicals, coatings, textile printing and dyeing, rubber, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals, and identify the above-mentioned new pollutants in the environmental impact assessment of construction projects. For those involving the above-mentioned new pollutants, implement the requirements of this opinion; If it does not involve new pollutants, no relevant work needs to be carried out.
2、 Prohibit the approval of construction projects that do not meet the requirements for new pollutant control
When accepting and approving environmental impact assessment documents for construction projects, various levels of environmental impact assessment approval departments should implement relevant control requirements such as the list of key controlled new pollutants, the guidance catalog for industrial structure adjustment, the Stockholm Convention, the ecological environment zoning control plan, and the environmental impact assessment of the park where the project is located. Strictly review the raw materials and products of construction projects based on the categories of projects that are not approved for environmental impact assessment (see attached table). Construction projects that use new pollutants prohibited from production and processing as raw materials or products will not be approved in accordance with the law.
3、 Strengthen the environmental impact assessment of construction projects involving new pollutants in key industries
When carrying out environmental impact assessments for key industries involving new pollutants, construction units and environmental impact assessment technical units should attach great importance to the prevention and control of new pollutants. Based on the identification results of new pollutants, combined with the relevant requirements of the current technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment and the preparation of technical guidelines for environmental impact assessment forms of construction projects, the following work should be focused on.
（1） Optimize raw materials, processes, and treatment measures to reduce the generation of new pollutants from the source. Construction projects should develop and use low toxicity, low harm, and non-toxic materials as much as possible to reduce the content of toxic and harmful substances in products; Clean production processes should be adopted to improve resource utilization and avoid or reduce the generation of new pollutants from the source. Strengthen governance measures. For new pollutants with existing pollution prevention and control technologies, feasible pollution prevention and control technologies should be adopted to increase governance efforts and reduce the impact of new pollutant emissions on the environment. Encourage construction projects to carry out technological demonstrations such as green substitution of toxic and harmful chemicals, reduction of new pollutants, and treatment of new pollutants in sewage sludge, waste liquid and residue.
（2） Calculate the discharge of newly polluted products. The environmental impact assessment document should provide the quantity, variety, and use of all chemical substances included in the list of key controlled new pollutants, the list of toxic and harmful pollutants, and the list of priority controlled chemicals. If chemical reactions are involved, the migration and transformation of new pollutants in the main and side reactions should be analyzed; Include the new pollutants involved in the evaluation factors; Calculate the generation and emission of new pollutants in each stage. Reconstruction and expansion projects should also review the emission of new pollutants from existing projects, and encourage the use of targeted and non targeted detection technologies to screen for new pollutants in wastewater, exhaust gas, and waste residue.
（3） Strict emission standards are required for new pollutants that have already been released. If a new project generates and discharges new pollutants with existing emission standards, measures should be taken to ensure that the emissions meet the standards. For renovation and expansion projects involving the emission of new pollutants, monitoring should be conducted on the emission of new pollutants from existing project exhaust and wastewater discharge outlets. For those whose emissions cannot meet the standards, corrective measures should be proposed. Solid waste such as waste mother liquor, distillation residue, antibiotic residue, waste reaction medium, waste culture medium, sludge, etc. that may involve new pollutants should be judged according to the national hazardous waste list. Solid waste that is not included in the list should be identified according to the hazardous waste identification standards after project operation. If it belongs to hazardous waste, it should be managed according to the relevant requirements for environmental pollution prevention and control of hazardous waste. Measures for preventing and controlling soil and groundwater pollution, such as corrosion prevention, leakage prevention, and dispersion prevention, should be proposed in accordance with relevant national standards for devices, equipment, facilities, and places involved in the production, storage, transportation, and disposal of new pollutants.
（4） Conduct environmental quality status and impact assessment for new pollutants specified in environmental quality standards. The selection of evaluation factors for the current status and prediction evaluation factors of construction projects should consider the new pollutants involved, fully utilize the results of national and local new pollutant environmental monitoring pilot projects, collect historical monitoring data on the environmental quality of new pollutants within the evaluation scope and related to the construction project (including environmental air, surrounding surface water bodies and corresponding sediment/sediment, soil and groundwater, surrounding sea water and sediment/organisms, etc.), and supplement monitoring for those without relevant monitoring data. For new pollutants specified in environmental quality standards, the current situation should be evaluated based on relevant environmental quality standards. For those that are not specified in environmental quality standards but already have environmental monitoring method standards, monitoring values should be provided. Incorporate new pollutants with corresponding existing environmental quality standards into environmental impact prediction factors and predict and evaluate their environmental impacts.
（5） Strengthen the tracking and monitoring of new pollutant emissions. It should be clearly stated in the environmental impact assessment documents of construction projects involving new pollutants that the corresponding new pollutants should be included in the monitoring plan requirements; For new pollutants that have neither released pollutant emission standards nor pollution prevention and control technologies, but already have environmental monitoring method standards, daily monitoring and monitoring should be strengthened to grasp the emission situation of new pollutants. Incorporate the monitoring of corresponding new pollutants in the surrounding environment into the environmental monitoring plan and ensure proper tracking and monitoring.
（6） Propose registration requirements for environmental management of new chemical substances. According to the "List of Existing Chemical Substances in China", if raw materials or products belong to new chemical substances, or existing chemical substances that will be subject to environmental management for new uses are used for industrial purposes other than permitted uses, the requirement to register for environmental management of new chemical substances in accordance with relevant regulations should be proposed in the environmental impact assessment document.
4、 Incorporate the requirements for controlling new pollutants into the management of pollutant discharge permits in accordance with the law
When the ecological environment department issues pollutant discharge permits in accordance with the law, industries such as petrochemicals, coatings, textile printing and dyeing, rubber, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals should follow the technical specifications for the application and issuance of pollutant discharge permits, and specify the new pollutant discharge limits and self-monitoring requirements specified in the emission standards; According to the environmental impact assessment documents and approvals, specify the requirements for new pollutant control measures. The ecological environment department shall carry out law enforcement supervision on the implementation of new pollutant control requirements in accordance with the provisions of the pollutant discharge permit.
5、 Localities should actively explore and improve the environmental impact assessment management of construction projects involving new pollutants
Provincial and municipal ecological environment departments should promptly include project categories that are not approved for environmental impact assessments in the ecological environment access list; According to the latest national and local key control list of new pollutants, list of toxic and harmful pollutants, list of priority controlled chemicals, as well as relevant environmental quality standards, pollutant emission standards, monitoring method standards, pollution control technical specifications, etc., timely update and continuously improve the environmental impact assessment management requirements for construction projects. Provincial and municipal ecological environment departments can pilot and select typical projects in key industries, and explore source strength accounting methods and control measures for new pollutants in construction projects based on the latest management requirements and research progress of new pollutants.
Ecological and environmental departments at all levels should strengthen the quality management of environmental impact assessment documents for construction projects involving new pollutants. When conducting quality reviews of environmental impact assessment documents for construction projects in industries such as petrochemicals, coatings, textile printing and dyeing, rubber, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals that have been approved after the release of this opinion, the focus should be on reviewing the selection of evaluation factors, evaluation standards, engineering analysis, emission standards determination, monitoring plans, and other content related to new pollutants, in order to promote the implementation of environmental impact assessment management requirements for new pollutants. If it is found during the review that construction projects involving new pollutants in the above-mentioned industries have not carried out new pollutant assessment work in accordance with the requirements of this opinion, they shall be dealt with seriously in accordance with the relevant provisions of the "Supervision and Management Measures for the Preparation of Environmental Impact Assessment Reports (Tables) for Construction Projects".
Ministry of Ecology and Environment
April 10th, 2025
(This matter is publicly available)
Issued by the Office of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment on April 10, 2025
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