The Environmental Protection Administration Industrial Wastes Management Center was established for the purpose to form a professional organization that could provide technical consultation and assistance to the industrial plants owners, operators and wastes disposal contractors to thoroughly understand and in compliance with relevant environmental protection regulations, so therefore the Industrial Wastes Database Management and Flow Control Administration Project (this project) was established to carry out the tasks. The Industrial Wastes Management Center has publicized the categories of industries required for periodical on-line declaration of their wastes production, storage, disposal, treatment, reuse, exporting and importing status. Until December 23, 2005, the database showed 40,558 plants listed under control and out of the 17,203 plants required for on-line declaration, 16,293 plants have complied with this requirement, the on-line declaration compliance rate is 95.21%. And, from the 13,740 Plants required to submit Industrial Wastes Disposal Plan in 3 stages, 13,460 plants have submitted, making the submission rate at 98%, and the approval of the submitted plans has also reached 92.5%, both the submission and approval rates have reached the project goal set for this year. In addition, field auditing has been conducted to the list of 32,742 plants exempted from on-line declaration to get 845 plants back on the on-line declaration requirement. In order to unify and improve the Disposal Plan editing and review quality, this project completed the edition of the 14 industrial categories (155 industries) – “Raw Material, Products and Wastes Listing”, “Industrial Wastes Disposal Plan Reference Guide” and “Review Operation Handbook”, for industrial sectors and environmental bureaus operation guidance. Currently, the Disposal Plans have been reviewed by manual inspection and computerized program. The stage 1 and stage 2 submitted disposal plans were reviewed by manually for 73 industries for a total of 6,362 plants. The stage 3 submitted Disposal Plans were reviewed by computer program for 119 industries for a total of 6,114 plants. The nationwide industrial wastes statistics up to December 31, 2005, showed the declared amounts were 11,206,600 tons for general industrial wastes, 1,074,624 tons for hazardous industrial wastes, which gave a total of 12,281,225 tons. The statistics further showed reuse to be the major disposal method, occupying 70% of the wastes generated, followed by contracted or joint treatment that occupied 19%. This project runs routine cross-checks of industrial wastes flow and lists suspicious plants for follow-up and consultation. A total of 19,378 plants were checked, 47 special task projects were conducted, 2,206 plants were investigated, 1,815 plants were audited, among them 183 plants were prosecuted, and 23 plants were fined. The QA/QC of industries declared information has successfully prevented environmental crimes from occurring. To summarize, this project has achieved the following 4 points: 1. the database has been improved for its integrity and rationality, 2. the industrial units have got into the habit of periodical on-line declaration, 3. the industrial wastes cross-checks continued to improve its efficiency, 4. the industrial wastes management will continue consultation together with its expanded control program.

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