Chapter V
WASTEWATER MANAGEMENT
Article 36. General principles of wastewater management
1. Wastewater must be managed through minimization, re-use, collection and treatment meeting environmental standards.
2. The discharge of wastewater must be managed according to both administrative boundaries and basin.
3. Organizations and individuals discharging wastewater must pay fees, service charges for wastewater treatment as prescribed by law.
4. Activities aimed at reducing and reusing wastewater are encouraged.
Article 37. Collection and treatment of wastewater
1. Industrial zones must have their own separate collection systems of rain water and concentrated wastewater collection and treatment system meeting environmental standards. Wastewater treatment systems must ensure enough capacity to treat the entire volume of the wastewater discharged of facilities in industrial zones put into operation. Industrial zones close to each other may combine general use of concentrated wastewater treatment system.
2. Urban areas, concentrated residential areas, buildings, building complexes of services and business must have rainwater collection system and collection, treatment of wastewater under the planning and comply with technical standards in the construction of technical infrastructural constructions.
3. Establishments of production, business, services must have rainwater collection system and collection and treatment of wastewater according to the following forms:
a) Self-treatment in wastewater treatment system of facilities meeting environmental standards before discharge into the environment;
b) Meeting the requirements for input wastewater before being put into concentrated wastewater treatment system of industrial zones or trade villages as stipulated by the owner of technical infrastructure system for industrial parks or trade villages;
c) Transferring to functional units for treatment outside generation facilities as prescribed: Hazardous wastewater shall be managed in accordance with regulations on hazardous waste management in Chapter II of this Decree; non-hazardous wastewater shall be transferred to appropriate functional units for treatment.
Article 38. Discharge of wastewater into receiving water
1. The discharge of wastewater of establishments of production, business and services into the receiving water must ensure uniformity in accordance with national technical standards on environment issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment issued or under environmental standards of locality.
2. The source of wastewater discharged into the receiving water must be investigated, evaluated regularly.
3. The discharge of wastewater into the receiving water must be managed in accordance with loading capacity of water environment and wastewater discharge quotas as prescribed.
Article 39. Monitoring of wastewater discharge
1. The wastewater discharge of establishments of production, business, services and industrial parks must be regularly monitored according to the approved reports on environmental impact assessment and the certified plans for environmental protection or equivalent records, document in accordance with the law.
2. Industrial zones must be installed continuous automatic wastewater monitoring system, and transmit directly data to the Service of Natural Resources and Environment.
3. Establishments of production, business, services outside industrial zones having discharge scale of 1,000 m3 / day or more (not including cooling water) must be installed the continuous automatic wastewater monitoring system and transmit data directly to the Service of Natural Resources and Environment in locality.
4. Establishments of production, business, services outside industrial zones having discharge scale of 1,000 m3 / day and night (not including cooling water) and being in danger of damage of environment are encouraged to install the continuous automatic wastewater monitoring equipment.
Article 40. Management wastewater and waste sludge after wastewater treatment
1. Wastewater after treatment must be collected for the purpose of reuse or discharge into receiving waters.
2. The re-use of treated wastewater must comply with specific provisions for each use purpose.
3. Waste sludge from wastewater treatment system shall be managed as follows:
Waste sludge with risk factors exceeding the hazardous waste level must be managed according to the provisions on hazardous waste management in Chapter II of this Decree;
b) Waste sludge without risk factors exceeding the hazardous waste level must be managed according to the provisions on ordinary industrial solid waste management in Chapter II of this Decree;
Article 41. Water environmental load capacity and wastewater discharge quotas
1. Load capacity of the water environment must be assessed by each pollution parameter, as a basis to control the load of such pollution parameter in all discharge sources of wastewater in the basin, according to the negative impact at the highest level.
2. Load capacity shall be considered based on the use purpose characteristics and self-cleaning ability of the receiving environment; the scale and nature of the current wastewater discharge sources and socio-economic development planning.
3. Wastewater discharge quota shall be determined and allocated based on water environmental load capacity corresponding to the period of socio-economic development planning.
4. Load capacity of water environmental and wastewater discharge quotas shall be bases for making or adjusting the socio-economic development planning and sector development planning; considering and approval of investment policies, investment certificate for the project.
Article 42. Resource for wastewater management
1. The State encourages all forms of investment in the field of wastewater management in accordance with legislation on investment.
2. Revenues from daily-life wastewater treatment must gradually offset the cost of concentrated daily-life wastewater treatment .
3. Revenues for wastewater (daily-life and industrial) must be used for purposes of prevention, restriction and control and remedy of pollution caused by wastewater.
Article 43. Responsibilities of Ministers in wastewater management
1. Responsibilities of the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment
a) Stipulate technical requirements and management process on : Reuse of wastewater; cooling water management; collection and treatment of runoff rainwater in first stage capable contaminated in the campus of establishment of production, business and services; transfer wastewater for treatment outside the establishments; objects must have wastewater treatment systems; continuously automatic wastewater monitoring for establishments potentially causing major environmental pollution; material conditions, technical infrastructure of agencies receiving continuously automatic wastewater monitoring data and report information regulations;
b) Formulate and promulgate guidelines for assessing the load capacity of the receiving water, zone use and determine wastewater discharge quotas into the receiving water; formulate and promulgate and allocate quotas for wastewater discharge interprovincial river basins; manage the wastewater discharge quota exchange.
c) Guide wastewater management and treatment and accord the promulgation of environmental standards on wastewater discharge into the receiving water;
d) Monitor and control water quality in the receiving water of interprovincial and international river basins;
dd) Develop the process of investigation, evaluation, formulation of database on wastewater in river basins; manage database of wastewater in the interprovincial river basin and operate the mechanism to share information on the wastewater sources in interprovincial and international river basins.
2. Responsibilities of the Ministers related to wastewater management of some specific waste sources shall be fulfilled under the provisions of Chapter VII of this Decree.
Article 44. Responsibilities of provincial People’s Committees in wastewater management
1. Direct and organize the collection and treatment of daily-life wastewater in the province.
2. Monitor and control of water quality in the receiving water in the province; invest facilities, technical infrastructure to receive and manage the results of continuously automatic wastewater monitoring.
3. Evaluate the load capacity, promulgate and allocate quotas for wastewater discharge for provincial river basins; disclose information of receiving waters that are no longer capable of receiving wastewater in the administrative division.
4. Invest, evaluate, formulate wastewater source database, manage, inspect and monitor wastewater into the receiving water in the province; cooperate with the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the relevant localities to manage, inspect and monitor wastewater into receiving in interprovincial scope as prescribed.
5. Report annually on the wastewater management and treatment for the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment for summary and monitoring.
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Nghị định 38/2015/NĐ-CP (Bản Pdf)
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