Circular on Publishing the First Catalogue of the Eliminated Technologies and Equipment Causing Serious Air Pollution

Circular on First Catalog of Eliminated Technologies and Equipment Circular on Publishing the First Catalogue of the Eliminated Technologies and Equipment Causing Serious Air Pollution (Promulgated by the State Economic and Trade Commission, the National Environmental Protection Agency, and the Ministry of Machinery Industry on June 5, 1997) In accordance with the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Air Pollution, and related requirements of the amended Law on Prevention and Control of Air Pollution set by the Environmental and Resources Protection Committee of the National People's Congress, this is to publish the first name list of eliminated technologies and equipment causing serious pollution in the en vironment ( the air) that includes 15 items. Related matters are as follows: I. All the units and individuals producing, selling, importing or using the equipment listed in the name list shall, before the deadline, stop producing, selling, importing or using. Those who adopt the equipment must stop using within the time limit. No units or individuals are allowed to produce the eliminated equipment in any form in other plac es or transfer the equipment to others. II. The eliminated technologies and equipment listed in the name list are not allowed to be used in construction, reconstruction,-expansion or technical renovation projects. If the eliminated technologies and equipment are still adopted in plans or designs by construction units and designing departments, units authorized to make examinations and approval should, from the day of the issue of the notice, not approve the setting up of the projects, units authorize.d to examine designs should not approve the designs, and relevant departments shall not approve the operation of the projects. Construction projects adopting the eliminated technologies and equipment should not be ac cepted by the relevant departments after completion. Violators will be investigated and be held ac countable. For those projects involving eliminated technologies and equipment that were approved before is sue of the notice, active measures shall be taken to amend the construction plans. III. For those enterprises, institutions and individuals that continue to produce, sell, import and use the eliminated technologies and equipment after the time limit, local economic and trade commis sions, environmental protection bureaus and competent departments of the related trades shall order them to stop according to law. Banks shall suspend their loans; industrial and commercial administra tive departments shall withdraw their licenses, confiscate their illegal income, and impose fines in ac cordance with the circumstances of the cases. The relevant departments shall give responsible persons and the person who bears the responsibility directly disciplinary sanction. For those who refuse to coo perate after repeated notices, judicial authority shall investigate and fix their legal responsibility. IV. From the day the notice is issued, local economic and trade commissions should, in conjunc tion with local environmental protection bureaus and management departments of machinery industry, strengthen leadership, set up accountability systems to meet the target at various levels and fulfill the responsibility down to every related person. V. Based on the principle that those who cause contamination should bear economic responsibili ty, related enterprises shall be organized to collect capital, switch to another line of products and reno vate the old production line. Related departments should give necessary support in terms of technology and capital. VI. Annual plans of elimination shall be drawn up, and implementation of the plan shall be re ported to the State Economic and Trade Commission timely, and to the National Environmental Pro tection Agoncy, the Ministry of Machinery Industry and other competent departments of the related 72 Circular on First Catalog of Eliminate.cl Technologies and Equipment trades in the meanwhile. Where elimination plans have already been made more stringent than the State's requirements, the local plans shall continue to be implemented. VII. The State Economic and Trade Commission shall, together with relevant departments, or ganize unscheduled inspection teams to examine the enforcement of the plans. Those who do not follow the stipulations of the notice shall be punished according to law. 73 The First Catalog of Eliminated Technologies and Equipment 'The First Ca~ of the Eliminated Tuclmologies and Equipment Causing Serious Air Pollotioo Serial Name of technctogies Deadline to Substitute techncl.ogies Remarks numoo and equipment eliminate and equipment Height of charring room not lower . 75# and 87 ll erohrtionary coke than 2. 8 meters, mechanical coke 1 End of 1999 oven with clarification system, pro oven ducing not lower than 200, 000 tons of coke annually 2 Cement produaed from earth ( egg- From the day the No need to replace shaped) kiln notice is issued 3 Ordina,y cement shaft kiln Ditto Ditto The dffidline can be ex Cement mechaniud shaft kiln, tended to the end of 2000 4 with diameter '001: greater than 2 End of 1997 Ditto lo, early liberated, mi meters, or with the annual prcxluc- nority-inhabited, bordec tion capacity \...., than 30 ,000 ttms . and poverty-stricken ar eas. In acrordance with the principle of The deadline can be ex Cement mechanized shaft kiln, "building large production lines and tended to the end of 2005 renovating small ones ,. new dry with diameter '001: greater than 2. 2 , lo, early liberated, mi 5 End of 2000 cement production lines that pro meters, or with the annual praluc duce not less than 700 tons of ce nority-inhabite.d, border tion capacity less than 44,000 tom ment per day the renovation should and povecty-stricken ar eas. use. Traverse g\a.$ production line of Floot glass pro 6 oot greater than 200, 000 ttms of duction industry. crates End of 1997 7 Brick-producing earth kiln From the d,<y the Ttmnel kiln notice is issued. The deadline can be ex tended to the end of 2005 8 F erroalloy electric stove below 1, End of 2000 Ferroalloy electric sttwe aOOVe 3, for early liberated, mi SOOKVA 600KVA. nority-inhabited, border and poverty-stricken ar ea.s. 9 Lamination End of 2005 Hot-rolling plate 10 Cupola steel-making Ditto Make steel by directly making use . of hot metal . 11 ()pen-hearth steel proce;s Ditto Make steel by ronverter or electric stove 12 Lead sintering pot End of 2000 Updraft sintering machine 13 Down-draft lead sintering machine End of 1997 Ditto 14 Zinc metallurgy in transverse jar Oi.tto Zinc metallurgy using wet-process in sealed blast furnace Using liquefied petroleum gas m Except for medical parts and parts that cannot be 15 TechnolOflY using CFCs to produce Ditto dimethyl ether to replace CFC-11 ,eplaced by liquefied pe airooo! products or CFC-12 used in production of trolewn gas or dimethyl aerosol. products ethet. 74