Today’s Huadu News: In order to fully implement the important planning of the state, the province, the city, and the District on coordinated epidemic prevention and control, and to provide proper emergency response services to epidemic control related projects that apply for environmental impact assessment and pollutant permit during this special time, Huadu Sub-bureau of Guangzhou Bureau of Ecology and Environment Protection rolled out 5 measures to support enterprises of the District to resume work during the epidemic; the focus of the measures is on new, reconstruction, and expansion projects in such areas as medical care, materials production, and laboratory that play a role in epidemic prevention and control.

　　  1. For high-priority projects intended for temporary emergency use, the environmental impact assessment may not be required; and for those to be used after the epidemic, the “Notification and Promise” mechanism may be applied, or the environmental impact assessment may be handled after the construction begins.

　　  2. As to additional CT, mobile CT, mobile DR and other X-ray imaging equipment for pneumonia diagnosis urgently needed by medical facilities (including temporary hospital built for the epidemic) to fight the epidemic, the environmental impact assessment may not be required; if they are to be used after the epidemic, application for environmental impact assessment shall be made again in accordance with relevant rules.

　　  3. Connecting the planning stage environmental impact assessment with the project environmental impact assessment; when a project is given green light during the planning stage by assessment results and review opinion, its project assessment procedures may be simplified.

　　  4. During the period when the first level emergency response applies, if pollutant discharging units that are producers of medical products, biomedicine, and medical equipment, or medical care providers have not completed the environment impact assessment or have pollution prevention and control facilities that have not yet the capacity to satisfy the concentration requirement of pollutants, they may, after proposing an improvement plan and promising proper correction within a deadline, apply to the environment authority for pollutant discharge permit; and the authority will process their applications first. However this does not apply to area where constructions are forbidden by laws and regulations, and enterprises that fall in the category of outdated production facilities to be shut down.

　　  5.  Supervision and instruction will be given to producers of medical products, biomedicine, and medical equipment, or medical care providers to do a good job in construction or upgrade of their pollution control facilities to ensure that such facilities operate properly and meet discharge standards; publicity campaign will be carried out to explain to people who file environmental complaints, and properly communicate with the mass, about the environmental impacts, such as noises, caused by extended working hours and expanded production scale of producers of medical products, biomedicine, medical equipment, and other enterprise fighting the epidemic.

　　  It has been learned that the Bureau has make public the website and service hotline for application of environmental impact assessment and pollutant discharge permit; and a “green channel” has been created for submission of environmental impact assessment documents.