Hanoi (VNA) - TheMinistry of Environmental and Natural Resources will inspect projects that havehigh potential for causing severe environmental pollution to ensure that theyare adhering to the law in 2017.
Environmental and natural resources minister Tran Hong Ha issued Document No.60, which orders the leaders of cities and provinces to collaborate in conductingthese inspections.
Sectors that will come under the radar include textile dyeing, metallurgy andthe production of chemicals, paper, pulp, cassava, rubber, sugarcane, leatherand thermal power, the document states.
The ministry, along with provinces and cities, will inspect all industrialunits that discharge 200cu.m or more of waste water, except those that have alreadybeen inspected in 2016.
The ministry will also inspect the implementation of administrative procedureson land, with a focus on procedures of acquisition, compensation and supportfor people whose properties have been recovered by the government, forcing themto resettle in new places. It will also look into procedures of landallocation, land lease, transfer of land-use purposes, initial landregistration, registration of land alteration and registration of certificatesof land use rights for organisations, households and individuals.
Inspections will be conducted at quarries and mines so that all laws arefollowed in the management, exploration, exploitation and use of stones asbuilding materials.
The ministry will also inspect the state management of water resources and theexploration, exploitation and use of water resources by a number oforganisations and individuals. The operating procedures that involve differentreservoirs in river basins will also be checked.-VNA
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