Environmental News Question 丨 How to keep the bottom line of the ecological environment?Details of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (Xinhua News Agency)

Environmental impact evaluation is the first line of defense in the development of green mountains in the development. How to keep the bottom line of the ecological environment while ensuring the smooth development of major projects? In the face of new requirements such as the governance of new pollutants, how will the environmental assessment will make efforts? The Ministry of Ecology and Environment held a press conference on the 21st to respond to hot issues related to the EIA.

Accelerate the approval of environmental assessment of major projects

According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, 134,000 new projects started projects in the first half of this year, an increase of 26,000 over the same period last year. In the next stage, 102 major projects of the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan" plan must be accelerated.

In May of this year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Investment Project EIA Work" and proposed a series of service measures and innovation measures.

According to Liu Zhiquan, the director of the Ministry of Ecological Environment's Environmental Evaluation and Evidence Management Department, in the first half of this year, a total of 47,800 project environmental assessment was approved by the country, involving a total investment of more than 8.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 28.9%year -on -year.

In the first half of this year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment approved 91 environmental assessment documents for major projects. Among them, 45 projects such as railway, water conservancy, transportation, and coal confession were involved, involving a total investment of about 700 billion yuan. Complete the approval of the 20 coal mine projects, involving 125 million tons/year of new production capacity; completed the approval of major water conservancy projects such as the second phase of the Huaihe River and the second phase of the sea waterway; Railway project environmental assessment approval involves 480 billion yuan in total investment.

Liu Zhiquan said that while doing a good job of the environmental assessment of major investment projects, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment also guided the localities to implement the "Classification Management List of the Environmental Impact Evaluation of Construction Projects (2021)". For the reduced 51 secondary industry environmental assessment categories and the canceled 40 secondary industry registration forms, strictly implement the measures and decentralization measures, and clarify that there is no environmental assessment outside the list. " The cancellation and simplified projects mainly involve environmental impact factor single. The industries with mature environmental governance measures and controllable environmental risks are the main body.

Liu Zhiquan said that in the next step, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will further optimize and simplify management through the pilot reform pilot pilot of planning environmental assessment and project environmental assessment of the industrial parks; The guidance and assistance for the grassroots level, simultaneously strengthen the supervision of the event.

"Zero tolerance" for the EIA

Liu Zhiquan introduced that in the process of serving major services, the EIA always adheres to the concept of ecological priority and green development, and keeps the bottom line of the ecological environment according to law. For major projects involving ecological environment sensitive areas, focusing on optimizing and adjusting the line selection and active avoidance. It is indeed impossible to avoid. Essence

For transportation projects involving residential areas, strengthen the prevention and control of noise pollution, it is required to minimize measures to wear the residential area and ground laying, and prioritize measures such as sound barriers to block noise sources. For major projects such as water conservancy and hydropower, strict ecological and environmental measures such as habitat protection, overfish facilities, proliferation release, low temperature water slowdown, and ecological scheduling are required ...

"Judging from the normalization of the national environmental assessment documents, although the environmental assessment documents are rough and fake, it is an individual situation, but the nature is extremely bad." Liu Zhiquan said that the ecological environment departments at all levels have always adhered to the "zero tolerance" attitude towards the environmental assessment.

Since 2021, the ecological environment departments at all levels have listed 265 units and 217 people with the quality of environmental assessment documents in the EIA "blacklist" or rectification list for the "blacklist" of the environmental assessment. The organization conducts a comprehensive investigation of the EIA unit and environmental assessment engineer who establishes an integrity file on the EIA credit platform. More than 8,000 EIA units and more than 14,000 EIA engineers have done one family one by one, one by one, and resolutely clean up the " EIA engineers who have illegal acts such as "EIA Company and" Hanging ", as well as units and personnel who have problems with the basic information of integrity files.

Liu Zhiquan said that in the next step, the ecological environment department will continue to resolutely combat the environmental assessment of the environmental assessment, actively coordinate the local and public prosecution laws and other departments, promote the investigation of typical cases of environmental assessment of environmental assessment in accordance with the law; further implement the long -term supervision mechanism of environmental assessment, comprehensively strengthen the quality supervision of environmental assessment documents; strictly implement The main responsibility of the construction unit is responsible for the quality of the environmental assessment documents.

Strict management of new pollutants construction projects

In recent years, new pollutants such as persistent organic pollutants, endocrine interference, and antibiotics have attracted much attention. In May this year, the General Office of the State Council issued the "New Pollutant Governance Action Plan", which proposed to strengthen the management of environmental impact assessment and strictly involved the management of new pollutant construction projects.

"At present, some new pollutants that have been introduced for emission standards have been incorporated into the environmental impact evaluation system." Liu Zhiquan said that construction projects that do not meet the requirements for production or restrictions on the management of chemical substances, such as the production of durable organic matter such as organic pesticides involving organic pesticides Construction projects will not be approved by the environment according to law.

At the same time, new pollutants that have been incorporated into the emission standard are strictly controlled.For example, the second evils have been incorporated into 15 national industry pollutant emissions standards. When carrying out the environmental impact assessment work of these 15 industry construction projects, the second villain must be fully demonstrated from the process of reaching the standard discharge of the process, and it is surrounded by the surroundings.The current status of the environment and the impact of the pollutant on the surrounding environment after the project is completed, including the analysis of relevant environmental risk, and proposed reliable pollution prevention measures to ensure that the emission meets the requirements of relevant standards, and the environmental impact can be acceptable.Liu Zhiquan said that in the next step, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment will actively promote the basic research of the environmental impact assessment of new pollutants, and do a good job of connection with the technical standards of new pollutants, survey and monitoring methods, etc.The environmental access of the construction project is to effectively play the role of the source of the environmental impact evaluation system.

Source 丨 Xinhua News Agency 丨 Huang Yan Gaojing

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