China News Service, Nanchang, February 4 (Reporter Wu Pengquan) Jiangxi Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment held a press conference on the 4th, stating that the "Regulations on Soil Pollution Prevention and Control of Jiangxi Province" (referred to as the "Regulations") were appointed by the 13th People’s Representative of Jiangxi Province. Adopted at the 25th meeting of the Standing Committee of the General Assembly, it will come into force on January 1, 2021.
Shu Feigeng, deputy director of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, introduced at the press conference that the "Regulations" are based on connecting the upper law and Jiangxi Province, focusing on the two areas of construction land and agricultural land, and prioritize protection of uncontaminated soil and unused land. , Strengthen pollution source control to prevent new soil pollution; for soil that has been contaminated, focus on strengthening soil risk control and restoration.
The Regulations have 7 chapters and 59 articles.
The "Regulations" stipulate that the people's governments at the two levels of Jiangxi province and city shall delineate key areas for soil pollution prevention and control based on the status of regional soil pollution and land and space planning.
It stipulates different types of soil pollution prevention and control requirements for pollutants, mining enterprises, oil facilities, agricultural inputs, livestock and poultry manure, urban and rural household garbage, reuse of waste materials, dismantling of corporate facilities, and management and control restoration activities.
The "Regulations" propose that socialized governance is encouraged for strictly controlled agricultural land plots. For centralized and contiguous land, the three rights separation of rural land can be combined to carry out land transfer, adjust the planting structure, and plant suitable crops on a large scale; encouragement; Those that meet the soil environmental quality requirements of the planned land can be converted to rural residential land, rural collective management land, and rural industrial project land.
For construction land plots whose soil pollutant content exceeds the risk control standards, the natural resources department shall not go through the procedures for land change for residential, public management and public service land. Persons responsible for soil pollution and land rights users shall carry out risk assessments. The land parcels accepted shall be subject to management control restoration and effect evaluation.
In the view of Lai Changhao, Director of the Soil Division of the Jiangxi Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment, soil pollution prevention and control is a relatively new task. Soil is not only a receiver of pollution, but also a carrier of pollution. The causes of soil pollution are complex, including water and gas. , Soil, slag and other factors.
The "Regulations" stipulate that Jiangxi Province will comprehensively promote the supervision system of financial funded soil remediation projects. "In the next step, our department will improve the special fund project management system above the provincial level, strictly implement the regulations on soil pollution risk control and restoration, reduce the cost of soil restoration projects, and ensure The security of fiscal funds, improve the performance of fund use, and focus on strengthening the prevention and control of soil pollution."
Shu Feigeng said that the promulgation of the "Regulations" is an important measure to adhere to scientific, precise, and legal pollution control, and to win the battle against pollution. It marks a new stage of development for the prevention and control of soil pollution in Jiangxi.
The reporter learned that since the 13th Five-Year Plan, Jiangxi has achieved a safety rate of contaminated farmland of about 93% and a safe utilization rate of polluted land of over 90%.
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