Enterprises Should Provide Pollutant Discharge Data     

The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) has issued the "Methods for the Management of Environment Monitoring". Compared with regulations formulated in the past, the document has expressly defined the environment monitoring duties and responsibilities of enterprises.
    "Pollutant discharging enterprises have the duty to regularly provide pollutant discharge data to environmental departments of the government and ensure these data to be accurate, real and timely," said an official from SEPA. Needless to say, it is the duty of enterprises to monitor their own pollutant discharge status. Pollutant discharge monitoring is the duty of competent environmental protection departments and also a duty of pollutant discharging enterprises.
    With the strengthening of environmental management and law enforcement, most enterprises have constructed pollution control facilities. In spite of this, phenomena such as abnormal functioning of pollution control facilities, discharge beyond standard and stealthy discharge still often happen. Some enterprises even do not know that they should conduct monitoring to pollutant discharge, provide pollutant discharge data and establish pollution source files.
   According to the document, pollutant discharging enterprises should monitor their pollutant discharge status. The monitoring ability of pollutant discharging enterprises and the effectiveness of the data they provide should be regularly assessed and verified by environmental monitoring stations of provincial environmental protection departments. Enterprises with no monitoring ability should ask environmental monitoring agencies with necessary qualifications to conduct monitoring.