Open Seminar on Chemicals Management Policies㻌
6th Tripartite Policy Dialogue on Chemical Management, October 31, 2012

Chemicals Management Administration in Japan

Keiko SEGAWA
Chemicals Evaluation OfficeEnvironmental Health Department
Ministry of the Environment, Japan1

Table of Contents
1. Input control of Chemicals
㹼 Chemical Substances Control Law (CSCL) 㹼
2. Promotion of Voluntary Management of Chemicals
㹼 PRTR System 㹼
3. Output control of Chemicals
㹼 Air Pollution Control Law / Water Pollution Control Law 㹼
4. Others2

Chemical Substances Control Law(CSCL)
Monitoring
ChemicalSubstances*

Chemical substances

Persistent andbioaccumulative

Priority
Assessment
Risks are not proven
Chemicalto be sufficiently low
Substances(PACSs)** Notify manufacturing / import quantityLong-term toxicity forhumans or for higherorder predators

Class I Specified
Chemical Substances
Manufacturing or importmust be prohibitedLong-term toxicity forhumans or animals /plants in living
environment, or
persistence inenvironment inextensive areas

Class II Specified
Chemical Substances
Manufacturing or importmust be restricted as
required

Act on Confirmation, etc. of Release Amounts of Specific Chemical
Substances in the Environment and Promotion of Improvements to theManagement Thereof
Persistence inHarmful to humans
environment
or animals / plants,
Possible future
destructive to ozone
persistence inlayer
environment

Class I Designated Chemical Substances
Emission or movement volume must be
notified, and MSDS must be attachedClass II Designated Chemical Substances
MSDS must be attached

Air Pollution Control Law, etc.
Harmful tohumans,production
volume, etc.

Priority
substances
Emission control
and monitoring

PossiblehealthhazardEstablish
aerialenvironment
guidelines

Establish
environment
al standards
and restrict
emissions

Water Pollution Control Law, etc.
Harmful to humans andecosystem, production
volume, etc.

Items requiring
monitoring: Setting andmonitoring of guideline
valuesPossible
damageEstablish
environmental
standards andrestrict
emissions

Additionally includes: Elution standards for specified toxic substances under the Soil Contamination
Countermeasures Act, their elution standards under Waste Management Act, etc.

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1.Input Control of Chemicals
㹼 Chemical Substances Control Law (CSCL) 㹼

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CSCL
Purpose To prevent environmental pollution caused by chemical substances that are
persistent and pose a risk of impairing human health or interfering with the
inhabitation and/or growth of flora and fauna.

Main measures
 Prohibits in principle manufacturing or use of substances of persistence,
bioaccumulation and long-term toxicity
 Restricts manufacturing or use of substances of persistence and long-term
toxicity and requires them to be labeled Notifies the production volume of substances that could meet any of above Evaluates persistence, bioaccumulation, long-term toxicity, etc. of new
chemical substances

5Restriction on Manufacturing, Import, etc.
of Chemical Substances (1)<Specified Chemical Substances: Two Classes>
 Class I Specified Chemical Substances㻌• Persistent, bioaccumulative, and long-term toxicity to humans or higherorder predators• Permission of manufacturing or import, and use of substances are
restricted (virtually prohibited)• Import of products designated in government ordinances is restricted• Administrative orders for recall in designating substances or other cases㻌• Exceptional use in Essential Use (requires compliance with and labeling oftechnical standards)•

Substances covered: 28
㻌 Polychlorinated biphenyl
㻌 Polychlorinated naphthalene (limited to those containing three or more chlorine atoms)
㻌 Hexachlorobenzene
㻌 Aldrin㻌 Dieldrin
㻌 Endrin(Values as of April 1, 2012)
㻌 DDT
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㻌 Chlordanes, etc.

Restriction on Manufacturing, Import, etc.
of Chemical Substances (2) Class II Specified Chemical Substances㻌• Long-term toxic to humans or animals / plants in living environment• Persistent to a remarkable extent in the environment of significantly
extensive areas• Notify planed quantity to be manufactured or imported, and actual
quantity manufactured or imported• Order changes in projected quantity to be manufactured or imported incase restriction on manufacturing or import is required• Publish technical guidelines to prevent environmental pollution andprovide recommendations as required• Mandate labeling and comply with technical standards•

Substances covered: 23
㻌 Trichloroethylene㻌 Tetrachloroethylene
㻌 Carbon tetrachloride㻌 20 organotin compound(Values as of April 1, 2012)7

Restriction on Manufacturing, Import, etc.
of Chemical Substances (3) Monitoring Chemical Substances㻌• Persistent, bioaccumulative and unknown toxicity• Notify actual quantity manufactured or imported, detailed applications, etc.
• Require to make effort for conveying information to business operators
dealing in substances•

Substances covered: 38
㻌 Mercuric oxide (II)㻌 1-tert-butyl-3, 5-dimethyl-2, 4, 6-trinitrobenzene carbon tetrachloride㻌 Cyclododecane-1, 5, 9-triene
㻌 Cyclododecane
㻌 1, 2, 5, 6, 9, 10-hexabromocyclododecane
㻌 1, 1-bis (tert-butyldioxy)-3, 3, 5-trimethylcyclohexane㻌 Tetraphenyltin㻌 1, 3, 5-tribromo-2-(2, 3-dibromo-2-methylpropoxy) benzene
㻌 O-(2, 4-dichlorophenyl) = O-ethyl = phenylphosphonothioate
㻌 1, 3, 5-tri-tert-butylbenzene
㻌 Polybromobiphenyl (Br = 2 ~ 5)
㻌 Dipenten dimer or hydrogen additives
㻌 2-isopropylbicyclo [4.4.0] decane or 3-isopropylbicyclo [4.4.0] decane
㻌 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-phenylphenol
㻌 Diisopropylnaphthalene㻌 Triisopropylnaphthalene, etc.

(Values as of April 1, 2012)8

Restriction on Manufacturing, Import, etc.
of Chemical Substances (4)䕿 Priority Assessment Chemical Substances(PACSs)
䞉㻌 It is not proven that substances do not clearly meet the requirements for
low-accumulation and hazardous properties of Class II Specified Chemical
Substances (long-term toxicity to humans or animals / plants in living
environment)䞉㻌 Persistent to a certain extent in the environment
䞉㻌 Notify quantity manufactured or imported, detailed applications, etc.
䞉㻌 Require to make effort for conveying information to business operators
dealing in substances* Type II and III Monitoring Chemical Substances have been abolished㻌 㻌 䞉Designate 87 substances from former Types II and III Monitoring
Chemical Substances㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 Carbon disulfide, hydrazine, n-hexan, 1,3-butadiene, etc.

㻌㻌㻌 㻌 䞉Designate 8 substances from General Chemical Substances(Values as of April 1, 2012)㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 Hydrogen peroxide, methanol, diethanolamine, peracetic acid㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 㻌 acetic anhydride, acrylic acid, sodium chloroacetate and cyclohexane9Business Operator’s Duty at CSCL (1) New Chemical Substances- Notify prior to manufacturing / import General Chemical Substances- Notify actual quantity manufactured or imported, applications, etc.
- Report hazardousness information newly obtained
 Priority Assessment Chemical Substances (PACSs)- Notify quantity manufactured or imported, detailed applications, etc.
- Provide hazardousness information requested- Report handling status requested- Implement study of hazardous properties based on instructions study ofhazardous properties- Obligate to make effort on information transmission to handling business
operators- Report the hazardousness information newly obtained10

Business Operator’s Duty at CSCL (2) Class I Specified Chemical Substances- Approve of manufacturing / import and usage restriction- Import restriction for government-decreed products- Correspond against recovery action order at substance designation- Obligate of technical standard adaptation / indication at exceptional usage
 Class II Specified Chemical Substances- Notify manufacturing / import plan and quantity of actual experience- Correspond against change order for the planned quantities of manufacturing / import- Obligate technical guideline adaptation / indication- Report handling status requested- Report the hazardousness information newly obtained

 Monitoring Chemical Substances- Notify quantity manufactured / actually imported experience and applications, etc.
- Report handling status requested- Implement study of hazardous properties Based on instructions study of hazardous
properties- Obligate to make effort on information transmission to handling business operators- Report the hazardousness information newly obtained11

Correspondence to Applications by Foreign Countries
 Article-7: (Evaluation on new chemical substances
regarding foreign manufacturers)- A person who intends to manufacture in a foreign state a
new chemical substance to be exported to Japan or aperson who intends to export a new chemical substance toJapan may, in advance, notify the three related ministries of
the name of said new chemical substance and otherrequired information.

- Enforcement due date of determination notice to notified
person shall be within four months after notification
acceptance. (Normally within three months)
12Flow of CSCL
Existing Chemical Substances

New Chemical Substances
Specified Cases> 1 ton/year ≤ 1 ton/year (e.g.,intermediates)

Polymersof Low Concern

Evaluation of PBT*

Prior verificationand monitoring

General Chemical Substances

Determination by available
knowledge, the state of its
manufacture, import, etc.

Determination by available
knowledge, the state of its
manufacture, import, etc.

Monitoring Chemical Substances
if necessary

Instruction to report
the state of handling
if necessary

Order to investigate
long-term toxicity

Class I Specified
Chemical Substances

Priority Assessment
Chemical Substances
if necessary

Instruction to report
the state of handling
if necessary

Order to Investigate
long-term toxicity

Class II Specified
Chemical Substances*P:Persistent
B:Bioaccumulation
T:Toxicity

Obligatory reporting of hazard information obtained by business13

Step-wise Risk Assessment
CSCL Chemical Inventory

Industry’s role

Existing Chemicals + Evaluated New Chemicals
Notified Chemical Substances-Notify annual quantity of manufactureetc. (mandatory)- Submit hazard information (voluntary)

Screening Assessment
Designation of PACSs- Notify annual quantity of manufactureetc. with detailed usage (mandatory)- Submit requested hazard information- Report requested for handling situations

Risk Assessment (1st)
Risk Assessment (2nd)Class II Specified Chemical Substances- Conduct administratively instructedhazardous properties study (long-term
toxicity tests) (mandatory upon instruction)-Notify planed annual quantity of
manufacture etc.
-Technical guidance for use etc.

14Designation History of Priority Assessment Chemical Sunstances April 2011
88 substances were designated as PACSs
Screening assessment was made for former Type II and III Monitoring Chemical Substances*.
75 former Type II Monitoring Chemical Substances and 20 former Type III Monitoring Chemical
Substances were designated as PACSs.
 March 2012
1 substance was deleted from PACSs and 8 substances were additionally designated as PACSs㻌
Þ㻌 Total number of PACSs: 95
Preliminary screening assessment was made for General Chemical Substances.
6 substances that could cause human health effects and 4 that could cause ecological effects
were designated as PACSs.
 July 201246 substances were determined to be equivalent to Priority Assessment Chemical Substances.
Additional substances are to be designated by the end of this year after reviewing their names
and other information
Screening assessment was made for General Chemical Substances.
31 substances that could cause human health risks and 21 that could cause ecological effects
were determined to be equivalent to PACSs.
Further screening assessment is to be conducted in the future to
additionally designate PACSs* Former Type II Monitoring Chemical Substances: Suspected to have long-term hazardousness to human body
Former Type III Monitoring Chemical Substances: Suspected to have hazardousness to animals and plants
Both cases have been repealed by the law revision in 2009.

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Progress of Risk Assessment
 The methods of screening assessment and of risk assessment wereorganized in January 2011 and January 2012, respectively.
 The screening assessment was made for former Type II and III Monitoring
Substances, and 87 substances were designated as PACSs in April
2011 when the revised CSCL was fully put into effect.

 The first-step Risk Assessment (1st) Assessment I was conducted
for 86 substances out of these 87 substances with the national total
quantity manufactured or imported of 10 tons or more.
* The screening assessment was made in advance for some General Chemical
Substances, and 8 substances were additionally designated as PACSs in March
2012. These substances must be notified for their quantity etc. manufactured orimported as PACSs by the end of June 2012 although no information necessaryfor exposure assessment is presently available, and are therefore not subject toAssessment I announced in July 2012.

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Overview of Actions Based on Risk Assessment(1st) Assessment I Results
PACs (designated on April 1, 2011)
Substances subject to Risk Assessment (1st) Assessment I

87 substances
86 substances

Substances to be subject to Risk Assessment (1st)Assessment II from FY2012

18 substances

Substances subject to Risk Assessment (1st) Assessment fora while to review their priority

63 substances

Substances subject to monitoring for their quantity for a while(estimated national emissions of 1 ton or less)

5 substances

Substances subject to monitoring for their quantity for a while(national total quantity manufactured or imported of 10 tons or less)

1 substance1㻌 Quantity manufactured or imported… Actual quantity in FY2010, announced on March 30, 20122㻌 Screening Assessment… Assessment to identify chemical substances at possible risk and designate PACSs
3㻌 Risk Assessment… Assessment to determine whether environmental pollution by chemical substances could
cause damage to human health or to inhabitation or growth of animals / plants in living
environment
4㻌 Quantity monitoring… Cancels designation as PACSs under Article 11 of CSCL when substances are
confirmed to be equivalent to those with the national total quantity manufactured orimported of 10 tons or less in the last three or more years, those with the estimatednational emissions of 1 ton or less, or those not required to be notified.
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Consideration of Risk Assessment Method[Future plans]
Basically, Assessment II will be conducted in FY2012 todetermine the necessity to designate Class II Specified
Chemical Substances, etc.

In case information required for judgment is insufficient,a report on handling etc. will be requested to business
operators to obtain information necessary for risk assessment
Risk Assessment (1st) Assessment III will be conducted after
FY2013.

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Implementation of CSCL (1) (New Chemical Substances) The number of notifications of new chemical substances has continued to increase, accounting for 684 in
2011.
 In 2011, notifications on 28,519 small quantity of new chemical substances, which also increases by
2,704 over the previous year.
< Number of notifications of new chemical substances>(No. of notifivcations)< Number of notifications on small quantity of new
chemical substances*>(No.
of notifications )䠄⏦ฟ௳ᩘ䠅

800

30000

700

25000
600
20000

500
400

15000

300
10000
200

5000

100

0

0
'74

'75

'80

'85

'90

'95

'00

'05

'06

'07

'08

'09

'10 '11(Year)New substances
New substances of low production volume(Substances that are not high concentration and whose
annual manufacturing or importing volume is 10 tons or less)

S49 50

55

60

H2

7

12

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

䠄ᖺᗘ䠅
(Fiscalyear)* Including notifications on the same substances.

Source: Materials by the Chemical Substances Council,
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
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Implementation of CSCL (1) (Preliminary New Chemical Substances) The following shows the classification by notifications of new chemical substances and small quantity of
new chemical substances. In both cases, the notifications show that the usage for electric and electronicmaterials accounts for the greatest percentage.

<Main applications of new chemical substances (FY2011)>
Operating oil, insulating oil, process oil andlubricant agent 1.9%
Paper and pulp agent1.9%
Synthetic textile and textile
treating agent2.9%

Coloring agent (dye, pigment,
colorant, color materials)㻌 2.6%
Glue, adhesive and sealant
2.9%

Others12.0%
Electric andelectronic materials
28.9%

Glue, adhesive andsealant㻌 3.7%

<Main applications of small quantity of new
chemical substances (FY2011)>

Other materials andadditives
3.0%

Printing ink and copying
agent (e.g. toner) 5.1%

Chemical processregulator
3.3%

Plastic, plastic additive andprocessing aid 6.3%

Plastics, plastic additive andprocessing aid
3.6%

Photoresist,photographs andprinting matrix
materials
6.9%

Paints and coating agent
17.4%

Intermediates
13.2%

Others13.8%

Electric and electronicmaterials
28.0%Intermediates
17.9%

Fragrance and deodorant
6.2%
Paints and coating agent
6.7%

Photoresist, photographs andprinting matrix materials
12.0%

Source: Materials by the Chemical Substances Council, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

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Implementation of CSCL (2) (Measures for Existing Chemical Substances after Placing
on the Market)
 The system that a person who intends to manufacture or import 1 ton or more existing chemical substances annually to notify
the manufactured or imported quantity has been introduced since the FY2010 record.
 The number of substances notified so far is: - FY2011 (FY2010 record, actual value): 31,301 notifications (1,422 companies), 6,813 substances - FY2012 (FY2011 record, tentative estimation): 30,354 notifications (1,416 companies) (*under final estimation) The record of these notifications is counted and announced to make use of the record for estimating exposure classes.

<Classification of applications (FY2010 record)>୰㛫≀Intermediates⇞ᩱ䚸⇞ᩱῧຍ๣
Fuel and fuel additive䝥䝷䝇䝏䝑䜽䚸䝥䝷䝇䝏䝑䜽ῧຍ๣䚸䝥䝷䝇䝏䝑䜽ຍᕤຓ๣
Plastic, plastic additive and plastic processing agent㍺ฟ⏝For exportsỈฎ⌮๣Chemical for water treatment䛭䛾௚䛾ཎᩱ䚸䛭䛾௚䛾ῧຍ๣
Other raw materials, other additivesసືἜ䚸⤯⦕Ἔ䚸䝥䝻䝉䝇Ἔ䚸₶⁥Ἔ๣
Operating oil, insulating oil, process oil and lubricant agentྜᡂ䝂䝮䚸䝂䝮⏝ῧຍ๣䚸䝂䝮⏝ຍᕤຓ๣
Synthetic rubber, rubber additive and rubber processing agentྜᡂ⧄⥔䚸⧄⥔ฎ⌮๣Synthetic textile and textile treating agent⣬䞉䝟䝹䝥〇ရPaper and pulp products䛭䛾௚䛾⏝㏵
Other applications

4,000
3,500
3,000
2,500
2,000

1,545

1,500

1%

784

1,000

2%

77

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Quantity manufactured or imported

1,000,000 tons and more

100,000 – 1,000,000 tons

10,000 – 100,000 tons

1,000 – 10,000 tons

0
100 – 1,000 tons

1%
11%

2%

248

500
0 – 100 tons

No. of substances notified<Quantity distribution of substances notified (FY2010 record)>
4,500
4,141

2%

36%

3%
12%

14%

16%

* Based on shipment
21quantity

Source: Materials by the Chemical Substances Council, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

Implementation of CSCL (3) (Control Measures Appropriate for Properties, etc. of Chemical
Substances) The planned quantity to be manufactured or imported must be notified for Class II Specified Chemical
Substances. The Class II Specified Chemical Substances currently manufactured or imported include
trichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene and carbon tetrachloride, of which the open application quantity
tends to decrease.
Changes in open application quantity of Class II Specified Chemical Substances(Unit: Tons)

Changes in open application quantity of Class II Specified
Chemical Substances(Unit: Tons)
Carbontetrachloride

658

FY199634,39623,15989

FY199734,394

21,20070

FY199833,17917,58537

FY199933,34016,78744

FY200031,952

14,08927

FY2001

27,634

11,15337

FY2002

24,863

11,14829

FY200323,537

10,39722

FY2004

22,2339,191

22

FY200521,8898,683

30

FY2006

18,3517,013

27

FY200718,0206,270

40FY200814,2845,198

20

FY200912,9715,200

16FY201013,1425,703

17FY2011

12,437

4,618

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Tetrachloroethylene

Carbon tetrachloride(*) Class II Specified Chemical Substances-㻌 Long-term toxicity to people or animals / plants in living environment.
-㻌 Risk of people or animals / plants in living environment because the substantial
amount of the substances is expected to remain to a certain extent in theremarkably extensive regional environment.
-㻌 No. of substances specified: 23-㻌 Need to notify quantity manufactured or imported (planned and record values),
applications, etc., order to change planned quantity as required, need to provide
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indications for products designated by government ordinances, etc.
Source: Materials by the Chemical Substances Council, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry

FY1911

24,648FY191034,084

FY20091,747

FY1995

FY20083,681

27,892

FY200728,72734,541

FY200635,002

FY1994

FY2005

FY1993Trichloroethylene

FY20046,127

FY200330,009FY2002

34,546

FY2001

6,420

FY1992

FY200030,059FY199934,546

FY19986,492

FY1991

FY199737,554

FY199636,762

FY1995

6,904

FY1990

FY1994

7,736

42,760

FY199345,483

46,201

FY1992

57,922

FY1989FY1991

FY1988FY1990Tetrachloroethylene

FY1989Trichloroethylene

FY1988

Fiscal year

Information Collection / Sending Program for Existing
Chemicals Safeness under the Cooperation between the
Public and Private Sectors (Japan Challenge Program) Overview- Aiming the acceleration of safeness information collection of existingchemicals and started in June 2009.
 Registration Status of Sponsors- 109 companies and 3 entities participated voluntarily.
- 91 substances from priority information collection target list (97 substances
including outside of list) were sponsor registered.
- 17 categories were formed and information was collected.
 Progress Situation- Among 97 substances sponsor registered, the safeness information collection
plan was submitted with 72 substances.
- The final Report was submitted with 22 substances.
- Other sponsors are under work for the submission in 2012.

 Future- The program will be completed by the end of FY2012.
- Will be shifted to screening / risk evaluations at framework of CSCL

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2. Promotion of Voluntary Management of Chemicals
㹼 PRTR System 㹼24

PRTR System
 PRTR (Pollutant Release and Transfer Register) System㻌 : Registration / Announcement systems of hazardous chemicals
discharged amount to environment and migration amount containedin waste material.
 It takes much time for the determination of threshold (standard
value) and risk evaluation.
㻌 㻌 㻌 ® Effectively reduce the discharge of [Gray Substance]㻌 㻌 - Voluntary management by business operators, information
disclosure to nations and utilization by the public administration
 Preceded by U.S.A and Netherlands (Framework and main purpose
are different depending on countries)㻌 ®㻌 In Japan, Legislated in
1999. (Act on Confirmation, etc. of Release Amounts of SpecificChemical Substances in the Environment and Promotion of
Improvements to the Management Thereof): (Co-Jurisdiction by the
MOE and METI)
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PRTR System (continued)
 PRTR System in Japan㻌 - Purpose: Promoting the voluntarily management improvement by business
operators㻌㻌㻌㻌㻌Trouble Prevention for Environmental Conservation
㻌 - Target Chemicals: 354 substances ® 462 substances (started since FY2010)
㻌 - Target Business Operators: Handling Business Operators (Defined bybusiness category / size)㻌㻌㻌 - Notification of discharge amount / migration amount by the target business
operators
㻌 - Estimation of discharge amount from other exhaust sources (small size
business place, non-target business category, family and mobile object) by thecountry㻌㻌㻌 ®㻌 Adding Up and Announcement. Individual notification data has beenannounced since this year Delivery system for MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) is also incorporated.
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Institution of PRTR System
Understand the chemical
discharge amount toenvironment and migration
amount contained in wastematerial by individual
business place and target
substances (354 substances)

Businesses

Trouble Prevention forenvironmental conservation bypromoting the voluntarily
management of chemicals

Notify estimated values ofdischarge and migration
amounts to the country

Evaluation on
Management
StatusData Announcement for
Individual Business PlaceVia Prefectural and City
Governments

Government

Disclosure of Data

The public

Data Disclosure Request for
Individual Business Place
Announcement of Adding Up
Results by Substance, Business
Category, Area, etc.

Minister of METI
Minister
Responsible for
the Business

Minister of MOE

Adding Up notification data, estimate exhausts other than notification (house,
agricultural land, vehicles, etc.), announce the results as well as inform the results toconcerned government ministries, and prefectural and city governments [MOE, METI].

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Trend of Notified Discharge Amount / Migration Amount, FY2003 ~ 2010
(Kilo Tons)
600
527.9
499.1
500

489.3
470.6

456.6
399.1
400

300

380.8
349.1

292.1
270.6
235.8

260.6
228.7
228.5

246.7
223.9

200

235.9
220.7

182.7 198.1

200.3 198.8
175.9 173.2

1000ᖹᡂ䠍䠑ᖺᗘ
ᖹᡂ䠍䠒ᖺᗘ
ᖹᡂ䠍䠓ᖺᗘ
ᖹᡂ䠍䠔ᖺᗘ
ᖹᡂ䠍䠕ᖺᗘ
ᖹᡂ䠎䠌ᖺᗘ
ᖹᡂ䠎䠍ᖺᗘ
ᖹᡂ䠎䠎ᖺᗘ
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

᤼ฟ㔞
Discharge

Migration⛣ື㔞

AmountTotal of Discharge /᤼ฟ㔞䞉⛣ື㔞ྜィ
Migration Amounts

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Image of the System to Display PRTR Data on Maps
How to publish data
Select filtering / map

Display search results on map
User

Server
Display resultswith a list ofcompanies

Display resultswith a map

Emissions and movement of a fiscal year

Change in emissions and movement over the years

29Purpose of PRTR and Data Utilization Examples
Purpose of PRTR

Utilization Examples of PRTR Data (Future utilization schedule included)[1] Basic Data forEnvironmental
Conservation

 Let the PRTR Discharge Amount Data to be the benchmark toward undertaking thepromotion of chemical sector
 Use as basic data when reviewing various political measures such as system forindustrial waste subject to special control, etc.

[2] Priority Decision for
Chemicals
Countermeasure by
Administration

 Used for the environment risk evaluation of chemicals
 Used for the selection of target substance / target place for environment monitoring Used for the risk evaluation of monitoring chemicals based on CSCL

[3] Promotion of voluntary
management bybusiness operators

 Provision of tools such as the estimation of environment concentration aroundbusiness offices to business operators.
 Used as business operator instruction material at local public entities[4] Provision of information
to nationals andenhancement ofunderstanding regarding
chemicals Announce the adding up results of data and post them on the web.
 Prepare map information on discharge amount and estimated atmosphericconcentration and post them on the web.
 Prepare a guidebook for citizens and chemical fact sheet in which PRTR data isutilized.

[5] Understanding of effectand progress status ofenvironment
countermeasure Understand the countermeasure situation regarding the reduction of priority
undertaking substance of Air Pollution Control Act with monitoring data and PRTR
data.

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Major Additional Undertaking Examples for
Chemical Management at Local Public Entities
Local Gov.
Regulations
Enforcement
YR

Notification ofDischarge &Migration
Amounts (No.
of Substances
other than law
target)Notification ofHandling
Amount (No.
of Target
Substances)

Notification of
Plan
Document,
Management
Target, etc.

Management
Guideline for
Business
Operator

Risk
Commu
nication(*2)

Saitama

YR2002

-

601







Tokyo

YR2001

15

58







Kanagawa

YR2005

-

462







Aichi

YR2003

-

462







Osaka

YR1995(Rev. 2009)23+VOC462+23
+VOC







SapporoYR2003

-

65







Kawasaki

YR2000α (*1)

64+α (*1)

NagoyaYR2004

-

462







*1: Substances for which city mayor recognized needs㻌 㻌*2: Undertaking not based on regulations of local government shall also be written down.

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3. Output Control of Chemicals
㹼 Air Pollution Control Law / Water Pollution Control Law 㹼

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Air Pollution Control Law (Purpose)
1. Protect Public Health and Preserve Living Environment- By controlling emissions of soot, smoke and particulate from thebusiness activities of factories and business establishments- By controlling emissions of particulate while buildings are being
demolished- By promoting various measures concerning hazardous air pollutants- and, By setting maximum permissible limits for automobile exhaustgases, etc.

2. Help Victims of Air Pollution Related Health Damage- By providing liability regime health damages caused by air pollution
from business activities

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Air Pollution Control Law (Overview)
Substance

Substance (Details)

FacilityCountermeasure Required

Smoke

- SOx
- Smoke- Hazardous Substance(NOx, etc.)

Soot and Smoke
Emitting Facility

Emission Standard, Order for
Improvement, etc.

Specified Smoke (SOx, NOx)Specified Factory

Total Mass Emission Control Standards,
Order for Improvement, etc.

Toluene, Xylene, Ethyl Acetate,etc. (about 200 substances)

Volatile Organic
Compound Emitting
Facility

Emission Standard, Order for
Improvement, etc.

General Particulate

General Particulate
Emitting Facility

Standard for Structure, Usage andManagement, Order for Standard
Compliance, etc.

Designated Particulate
Emitting Facility

Site Border Standard, Order for
Improvement, etc.

Designated Particulate
Discharge Work

Working Standard, Order for Working
Standard Compliance, etc.

Volatile Organic
Compound (VOC)

Particulate
Designated Particulate(Asbestos)Hazardous Air
Pollutants

Exhaust Gases
from Motor Vehicles

Specified Substance: Benzene,
Trichloroethylene,
Tetrachloroethylene
Substances Requiring Priority
Action: Refer to the attached
Table-1

Suppression Standard for Specific
Substance, Warning, etc.

VehiclePermissible Limits, etc.

Table-1: Substances Requiring Priority Action (23 substances)
Acrylonitrile

Tetrachloroethylene

Acetaldehyde

Trichloroethylene

Vinyl Chloride Monomer (Alias Name:
Chloroethene, Vinyl Chloride)

Toluene

Methyl chloride (Alias Name: Chloromethane) Nickel Compounds
Chromium and Trivalent Chromium
Compounds

Arsenic and its Compounds

Hexavalent Chromium Compounds

1, 3-Butadiene

Chloroform

Beryllium and its Compounds

OXIRANE (Alias Name: Ethylene Oxide)

Benzene1, 2-Dichloroethane

Benzo[a]Pyrene

Dichloromethane (Alias Name: Methylene
Chloride)

Formaldehyde

Mercury and its Compounds

Manganese and its Compounds

Dioxins35

Reduction Countermeasure for Volatile Organic Compounds
Emission Source of Volatile Organic Compounds[Control Subjects]
6 Facility Group Types / Large Size Facility

Notification toprefectural and city
governments

Order for Change Plan

Concentration Control
at Discharge Spout

Observance Obligation
for Emission Standard

Measurement
Obligation

Order for Improvement

Penalty[Out of Control Subjects] Voluntary Undertaking- Medium-Small Size Facility, out of Control Subjects- Facility Type, out of Control Subjects- Aperture Area, other than Discharge Spout- VOC volatilization/scattering from somewhere otherthan facility such as outdoor painting work, etc.

[Undertaking Actor]
By most appropriate actor
such as business place,company, industry group¯
Able to take action below by
every undertaking actor,[Originality and Ingenuity][Flexible Response][Countermeasure with High
Cost-Effective Performance][Example of Undertaking
Contents]- VOC Lowering of Raw
Material or Product- Improvement /Modification of Process,etc.
- Introduction of VOC
Processor[Review and Re-Examination of Undertaking Status]- Collateral by Laws and Regulations by considering progress situation of voluntary undertaking .

[Case of Insufficient VOC Emission Reduction with Respect to Reduction Target]
Review Combination Method of Laws and Regulations, and Voluntary Undertaking

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VOC Emitting Facility and Emission Standard to be Control Subjects
VOC Emitting Facility
 Painting Facility (Only limited to Spray Painting) Drying Facility for Painting (The facilities for Spray
Painting and Electrophoretic Coating are excluded)

Size Requirements
Air-Exhaust Performance of
Exhauster: Greater than 100,000m 3/hr.

Air Blowing Performance of Air
Blower: Greater than 10,000m 3/hr.

Emission Standard
Painting Facility for Vehicle
Manufacturing (only limited tospray painting)

Existing:700ppmC
New: 400ppmC

Other Painting Facility (onlylimited to spray painting)

700ppmC

Facility for timber/wood product(furniture included)
manufacturing

1,000ppmC

Others

600ppmC Drying Facility for Adhesion (The facility fortimber/wood product manufacturing and the facility
listed below are excluded)

Air Blowing Performance of Air
Blower: Greater than 15,000m 3/hr.

1,400ppmC

 Drying Facility for the manufacturing of copper cladlaminates, plastic laminate container packing,adhesive tape / adhesive sheet or paper liner.

Air Blowing Performance of Air
Blower: Greater than 5,000m 3/hr.

1,400ppmC

 Drying Facility for the gravure printing

Air Blowing Performance of Air
Blower: Greater than 27,000m 3/hr.

700ppmC Drying Facility for the rotary offset printing

Air Blowing Performance of Air
Blower: Greater than 7,000m 3/hr.

400ppmC Drying Facility for the chemical productmanufacturing

Air Blowing Performance of Air
Blower: Greater than 3,000m 3/hr.

600ppmC Cleaning Facility for the industrial products (Drying
facility for cleaning included)

Facility in which air contacting surface
area with cleaning agent is greaterthan 5m2

400ppmC

 VOC Storage Tank in which vapor pressure ofgasoline, crude oil, naphtha, etc. exceeds 20KPa at
37.8 °C temperature [Closed Type and Floating RoofType (Interior Floating Roof Type included)
excluded]

Facility greater than 1,000KL(However, the discharge standard isapplied to the existing storage tankwith capacity greater than 2,000KL)

60,000ppmC

37
ppmC: Carbon Corrected Concentration

Business Operator’s Duty and Penalty for Air Pollution Control Law (1)- Article-6: Notification shall be submitted to the governor when installing soot and smoke emitting
facility (Penal servitude not exceeding 3 months or fine not exceeding ¥300K)- Article-8: Notification shall be submitted to the governor when changing the structure of soot andsmoke emitting facility. (Penal servitude not exceeding 3 months or fine not exceeding¥300K)- Article-13: Do NOT emit soot and smoke which does not comply with emission standards at the outletof the facility. (Penal servitude not exceeding 6 months or fine not exceeding ¥500K)- Article-13.2: Do NOT emit soot and smoke which fails to meet the total mass emission control
standard from the outlets of all the soot and smoke emitting facility installed at specificfactories, etc. (Penal servitude not exceeding 6 months or fine not exceeding ¥500K)- Article-16: The volume and density of the soot and smoke shall be measured/recorded/saved. (Finenot exceeding ¥300K)- Article 17: Emergent measures shall be taken and conditions of the accident shall be reported to thegovernor when accident occurred at soot and smoke emitting facility, etc.
- Article-17.2: Emission status of the soot and smoke into the air shall be figured out and necessary
action to suppress the emission shall be taken.

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Business Operator’s Duty and Penalty for Air Pollution Control Law (2)- Article-17.5: Notification shall be submitted to the governor when installing VOC Emitting Facility.
(Penal servitude not exceeding 3 months or fine not exceeding ¥300K)- Article-17.7: Notification shall be submitted to the governor when changing the structure of VOC
Emitting Facility. (Penal servitude not exceeding 3 months or fine not exceeding¥300K)- Article-17.10: Emission Standard regarding VOC Emitting Facility shall be observed.
- Article-17.12: VOC concentration shall be measured and recorded.
- Article-17.14: Emission status of VOC into the air shall be figured out and necessary action to
suppress the emission shall be taken.
- Article-18: Notification shall be submitted to the governor when installing General Particulate
Emitting Facility. (Fine not exceeding ¥300K)
Notification shall be submitted to the governor when changing the structure of General
Particulate Emitting Facility. (Fine not exceeding ¥300K)

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Business Operator’s Duty and Penalty for Air Pollution Control Law (3)- Article-18.3: Standard regarding General Particulate Emitting Facility shall be observed.
- Article-18.6: Notification shall be submitted to the governor when installing Designated Particulate
Emitting Facility. (Penal servitude not exceeding 3 months or fine not exceeding¥300K)
Notification shall be submitted to the governor when changing the structure of
Designated Particulate Emitting Facility. (Penal servitude not exceeding 3 months
or fine not exceeding ¥300K)- Article-18.12: Designated particulate density shall be measured on the border line of the groundof the factory and recorded.
- Article-18.15: Notification shall be submitted to the governor when implementing DesignatedParticulate Emitting Work, etc.
(Penal servitude not exceeding 3 months or fine not exceeding ¥300K)
㻌- Article-18.17: Working Standard regarding Designated Particulate Emitting Work shall beobserved.
- Article-18.21: Emission status of the Hazardous Air Pollutant into air shall be figured out andnecessary action to suppress emission shall be taken.
- Article-25: The business operator shall take the responsibility of making restitution when damaging
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human life or health due to the harmful substances from a plant, etc.

TargetValue

Trend of Emission Volume for VOC
Showing 30% Increase Over 2000, 990KT

㻝㻘㻢㻜㻜

1.41MT for FY2000
Business Categories other than already

820KT for FY2009
42% Reduced

㻝㻘㻠㻜㻜
㻝㻘㻞㻜㻜

1.11M

1.02M

Emission Volume (KiloTons/year)᤼ฟ㔞䠄༓䡐㻛ᖺ䠅

Drink, Tobacco and Feedstuff Manufacturing㣧ᩱ䞉䛯䜀䛣䞉㣫ᩱ〇㐀ᴗBusinesses
Laundry
Ὑ℆ᴗ

1.08M
0.92M

㻝㻘㻜㻜㻜

᪤ฟ௨እ䛾ᴗ✀➼mentioned

Petroleum / Coal Product Manufacturing▼Ἔ〇ရ䞉▼Ⅳ〇ရ〇㐀ᴗBusiness

Metal Product Manufacturing Business㔠ᒓ〇ရ〇㐀ᴗ㻤㻜㻜Chemical Industry
໬Ꮫᕤᴗ

㻢㻜㻜

Printing and Related Businesses༳ๅ䞉ྠ㛵㐃ᴗ
Fuel Retailing Business
⇞ᩱᑠ኎ᴗ

㻠㻜㻜

Plastic Product Manufacturing Business䝥䝷䝇䝏䝑䜽〇ရ〇㐀ᴗ㻞㻜㻜

Civil Engineering, Architectural and Pavingᅵᮌᕤ஦ᴗ䞉ᘓ⠏ᕤ஦ᴗ䞉⯒⿦ᕤ஦ᴗWork Businesses
㻜
ᖹᡂ㻝㻞
ᖹᡂ㻝㻣
FY2000 FY2005
ᖺᗘ
ᖺᗘ

ᖹᡂ㻝㻤
FY2006ᖺᗘᖹᡂ㻝㻥
FY2007
ᖺᗘᖹᡂ㻞㻜
FY2008 ᖹᡂ㻞㻝
FY2009ᖺᗘᖺᗘTransport Equipment Manufacturing Business㍺㏦⏝ᶵᲔჾල〇㐀ᴗ Most of emission volume reduction since 2000 until 2009 depends on the undertaking of VOC Emission Suppression.
 It is considered that the reason for sudden reduction of emission volume in 2008 from 2007 was brought by the result ofvoluntary undertaking by industrial world and the reduction of production activity due to Lehman’s Fall in September 2008.

Enforcement Status of Air Pollution Control Law (1)Trend of Number of VOC Emitting Facilities
Number of
Factories /Business Places
where Notified
Facilities are
Installed

Number of Facilities Notified

Fiscal Year

Facilities in
Total

Atmosphere(Note-1)

Electricity /Gas / Mine
(Note-2)

FY2006

3,741

3,739

2

1,189

FY2007

3,776

3,775

1

1,188

FY2008

3,781

3,779

2

1,188

FY2009

3,613

3,611

2

1,152

FY2010

3,552

3,548

4

1,131

(Note-1) VOC Emitting Facility Notified by Air Pollution Control Law(Note-2) Electricity; VOC Emitting Facility Notified by Electricity Business Act: Gas; VOC Emitting Facility Notified by Gas
Business Act: Mine; VOC Emitting Facility Notified by Mine Safety Act
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Enforcement Status of Air Pollution Control Law (2)Trend of Number of On-Site Inspection Implemented and of Business Places
Category

FY2005

FY2006

FY2007

FY2008FY2009FY2010

Soot and Smoke Emitting Facility
Installed Factory / Business Place

17,98416,085

17,881

16,312

15,831

15,908VOC Emitting Factory / Business
Place

䠉

718

720

798

974

927

General Particulate Emitting Facility
Installed Factory / Business Place

2,083

1,723

1,738

1,632

1,602

1,825

Designated Particulate Emitting
Facility Installed Factory / Business
Place

305

29

27

0

0

0

Designated Facility (Note) Installed
Factory / Business Place

2

23

30

16

78

4

Designated Particulate Emitting Work

7,045

11,393

8,238

6,748

6,595

6,362

Total

27,41929,971

28,63425,50625,08025,026(Note) The designated facility refers to the facility to emit designated substances (28 substances) suchas ammonia went with chemical processing and action taken at accident is defined.

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Water Pollution Control Law (Purpose)
1. Protect Public Health and Preserve Living Environment- By regulating effluent discharged by factories, etc.

2. Help victims of water pollution related Health damage- By providing liability regime health damages caused by water pollution frombusiness activities.

Contents to be Controlled- Notification System for Specific Facility- Common National effluent Control- Constant Monitoring of Water Quality- Total Amount Control against Enclosed Coastal Seas
- Living Drainage Countermeasure such as the designation of strategic regions
for living drainage countermeasure, etc.
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Water Quality Environment Standard
Water Contamination
Hazardous Substance
Mercury, Arsenic,
Organochlorine Compound, etc.

Influence on Human

Water Quality
Environment Standard

Health Item

(Drinking, Seafood Uptake)

Influence for Aquatic Organism

Organic Contamination, etc.
So called water contamination, turbidity
BOD/COD, DO, SS, etc.

Nutrient Salts
Causative Substance of Nutrient Enrichment

Nitrogen, Phosphorus

Item Related to Living
Environment[Living Environment]
It is defined that animals and plants,
and habitat Environment closely
related to human life are included in
the Environmental Basic Act.

BOD / COD
Water area dysoxic environment is the most basic problem of Water contamination. Bad odor is generated when oxygen in the wat er
is decreased. Troubles such as disrupting the habitat of Aquatic Organism may occur. For the reason, oxygen demand (OD) isutilized as the index of water quality contamination where oxygen consuming substance is measured as oxygen amount in additio n to
the direct dissolved oxygen (DO) amount. There are methods, BOD measuring by utilizing microbe and COD measuring by utilizing
chemicals for the oxygen consuming amount, the former is used for river and the latter is used for lake, pond and marine area at theEnvironment Standard.

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Water Quality Environment Standard[Environmental Standard Regarding Water Contamination]
㻌 1. Environmental Standard Regarding the Human Health Protection(Health Item: 27 items)
㻌 2. Environmental Standard Regarding the Life Environment Conservation㻌 㻌 㻌 (Life Environment Item: 10 items)

㻌 * Concrete items and Standard value are shown on the next
slide.
[Environmental Standard Regarding Water Contamination by Dioxin Group]㻌 㻌 Water Quality Standard : Less than 1pg-TEQ/L, annual average value㻌 㻌 Sediment Standard :Less than 150pg-TEQ/g

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Environmental Standard Regarding Water Contamination.etc.

Human Health

Kinds of harmful substances
Cadmium
Cyanogen
Lead
Hexavalent chromium
Arsenic
Mercury
Alkyl mercury
Polychlorinated biphenyl
Dichloromethane
Carbon tetrachloride
1,2-dicholoroethane
1,1-dichloroethylene
cis-1,2-dichloroethylene
1,1,1-trichloroethane
Kinds of harmful substances

Life Environment

BOD
COD
pH
SS
DO
Coliform group number
Normal-hexane extracts

NitrogenPhosphorus
ZincStandard
䵐0.003mg䠋L
Not detected
䵐0.01mg䠋L
䵐0.05mg䠋L
䵐0.01mg䠋L
䵐0.0005mg䠋L
Not detected
Not detected
䵐0.02mg䠋L
䵐0.002mg䠋L䵐0.004mg䠋L䵐0.1mg䠋L
䵐0.04mg䠋L
䵐1mg䠋LRiver䵐1 - 10mg/L
䠉
6.0 - 8.5
䵐25 - 100mg/L㻌 .etc.
2 - 7.5mg/L䵐
䵐50 - 5,000MPN/100mL䠉䠉䠉䵐0.03mg/L

Kinds of harmful substances
1,1,2-trichloroethane
Trichloroethylene
Tetrachloroethylene
1,3-dichloropropene
ThiramSimazine
Thiobencarb
BenzeneSelenium
Nitrate nitrogen㻌 and nitrite㻌
nitrogenFluorine
Boron
1,4-dioxaneLake䠉䵐1 - 8mg/L
6.0 - 8.5
䵐1 - 15mg/L㻌 .etc.
2 - 7.5mg/L䵐
䵐50 - 1,000MPN/100mL䠉䵐0.1 - 1mg/L
䵐0.005 - 0.1mg/L
䵐0.03mg/L

Standard
䵐0.006mg䠋L䵐0.03mg䠋L
䵐0.01mg䠋L
䵐0.002mg䠋L䵐0.006mg䠋L䵐0.003mg䠋L䵐0.02mg䠋L
䵐0.01mg䠋L
䵐0.01mg䠋L
䵐10mg䠋L
䵐0.8mg䠋L
䵐1mg䠋L䵐0.05mg䠋LSea䠉
䵐2 - 8mg/L
7.0 - 8.3
䠉
2 - 7.5mg/L䵐
䵐1,000MPN/100mL
Not detected
䵐0.2 - 1mg/L
䵐0.02 - 0.09mg/L
䵐0.01 - 0.02mg/L

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Wastewater standards
Kinds of harmful substances

Tolerable limit

Hydrogen ion concentration (pH)

Other than sea area: 5.8 – 8.6
Sea area: 5.0 – 9.0.

Biochemical oxygen demand(BOD)

160 mg/L(Daily mean value: 120 mg/L)

Chemical oxygen demand (COD)

160 mg/L(Daily mean value: 120 mg/L)

Suspended solids (SS)

200 mg/L(Daily mean value: 150 mg/L)

Normal-hexane extracts content(mineral oils content)

5 mg/L

Normal-hexane extracts content(animal and plant fats content)

30 mg/L

Phenols content

5 mg/L

Copper content

3 mg/L

Zinc content

2 mg/L

Soluble iron content

10 mg/L

Soluble manganese content

10 mg/L

Chromium content

2 mg/L

Coliform group number

Daily mean value: 3,000/cm 3

Nitrogen content

120 mg/L(Daily mean value: 60 mg/L)

Phosphorus content

16 mg/L(Daily mean value: 8 mg/L)

Note
The effluent standard shown in this table is applicable to theeffluent water discharged by a plant, factory, or businessestablishment which discharges 50m3/day or more of effluent
water on daily average.
(*) 0.4 times the ammonia nitrogen compound, and the total of nitrite
nitrogen and nitrate nitrogen

Kinds of harmful substances
Cadmium and its compounds
Cyanide compounds
Organic compound (limited to parathion, methyl
parathion, methyl demeton and EPN(ethyl p-nitrophenyl phenylphosphorothioate))
Lead and its compounds
Hexavalent chromium compounds
Arsenics and its compounds
Mercury and alkyl mercury, and other mercury
compounds
Alkyl mercury compounds
Polychlorinated biphenyl
Trichloroethylene
Tetrachloroethylene
Dichloromethane
Carbon tetrachloride
1,2-dicholoroethane
1,1-dichloroethylene
cis-1,2-dichloroethylene
1,1,1-trichloroethane
1,1,2-trichloroethane
1,3-dichloropropene
ThiramSimazine
Thiobencarb
BenzeneSelenium and its compounds
Boron and its compounds
Fluorine and its compounds
Ammonia, ammonium compounds, nitrite
compounds and nitrate compounds
1,4-dioxane

Tolerable limit
0.1 mg/L
1 mg/L
1 mg/L

0.1 mg/L
0.5 mg/L
0.1 mg/L
0.005 mg/L
Not detected
0.003 mg/L
0.3 mg/L
0.1 mg/L
0.2 mg/L
0.02 mg/L
0.04 mg/L
0.2 mg/L
0.4 mg/L
3 mg/L0.06 mg/L
0.02 mg/L
0.06 mg/L
0.03 mg/L
0.2 mg/L
0.1 mg/L
0.1 mg/L
Other than sea area: 10 mg/L
Sea area: 230 mg/L
Other than sea area: 8 mg/L
Sea area: 1 mg/L(*) 100 mg/L
0.5 mg/L48

Countermeasures for Water Environment Conservation

National Uniform Standard for Plant/Business
Place

Water Pollution Control Law (Unified Countermeasures)

Advanced
Control

Notification of Installation / Change of Specified Facility

Order for Change Plan

Notification of Installation / Change of Hazardous
Substance Storage Designated Facility

Order for Change Plan

Measurement / Record of Discharge Water

PenaltyOn-the-Spot Inspection / Levy Report

Order to Improve
Order to Suspend

Water Discharge Control

Penalty

Prohibition of Hazardous Substance
Underground Seepage

Order for Purify Action

Water Contamination by Abnormal Drought

Order for
Emergency Operation

Emergent Measures / Notification at Accident

Order for
Emergent Measures

Control at
Normal Time

Corresponding
to Failure

Water Quality Monitoring on
Public Water Area

Measurement Plan by
Prefectural
and City Governments

Constant Monitoring /Announcement, etc.

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Business Operator’s Duty and Penalty for Water Pollution Control Law (1)- Article-5: Notification shall be submitted to the governor when installing Specific Facility, etc.
(Penal servitude not exceeding 3 months or fine not exceeding ¥300K)- Article-7: Notification shall be submitted to the governor when changing structure of Specific
Facility, etc. (Penal servitude not exceeding 3 months or fine not exceeding ¥300K)- Article-12: Do NOT discharge effluent which does not satisfy the Effluent Standards at the
point of discharge from the Specified Factory. (Penal servitude not exceeding 6
months or fine not exceeding ¥500K)- Article-12.2: A person who has set up a Specified Factory within a Specified Region shallobserve the total pollutant load regulation standards shall be observed.
- Article-12.3: Do NOT impregnates the water of specific underground infiltration water.
- Article-12.4: Structural Standard related to the specific facility using harmful substances shallbe observed.

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Business Operator’s Duty and Penalty for Water Pollution Control Law (2)- Article-14: The pollution level of the said effluent or specified permeation water shall bemeasured / recorded / saved. (Fine not exceeding ¥300K)
The pollutant load of the effluents in the specified region where Total Pollutant
Load regulation Standards is applied shall be measured/recorded/saved. (Finenot exceeding ¥300K)- Article-14.2: Emergent measures shall be taken and conditions of the accident shall bereported to the governor when accident occurred at specific workplace, etc.
- Article-14.3: Cooperation with the Order for Action regarding ground water quality
purification shall be performed.
(Penal servitude not exceeding 1 year or fine not exceeding ¥ 1M)- Article-14.4: The situation of discharge into public water area or underground infiltrationwater shall be figured out and necessary action to prevent the watercontamination shall be taken.

- Article-19: The business operator shall take the responsibility of making restitution whendamaging human life or health due to the harmful substances in the polluted
water or wastewater discharged from factories.

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Enforcement status of water pollution control law
No. of specified establishments㻌 average effluent more than 50⒛/day
Article 5‫ق‬Establishment of Specified facilities‫ك‬㻌

Notification㻌 Article 7‫ق‬Structure changes etc.‫ك‬㻌
Article 8‫ق‬Order to change plans‫ك‬㻌No of establishments inspected ‫ق‬Article 22.1‫ك‬㻌  inspection during night㻌
Order for Improvement‫ق‬Article 13‫ك‬㻌
Order to suspend operation‫ق‬Article 13‫ك‬㻌
Order to purify groundwater‫ق‬Article 14.3‫ك‬㻌
in writing
Number ofadministrative Oral㻌
direction
Total㻌
Installation or improvement of wastewater
treatment facilities㻌
Contents ofadministrative temporary suppression of effluent
direction
Others㻌total㻌
Violation of effluent standards‫ق‬Article 31.1.1‫ك‬㻌
Violation of order for improvement‫ق‬Article 30‫ك‬㻌
Violation of water pollution control law (others)㻌
Measures to be taken in case of an accident㻌

2010㻌
2009㻌
2008㻌
2007㻌
2006㻌
271,242 㻌 274,039 㻌 276,952 㻌 280,517 㻌 289,091 㻌
33,964 㻌 34,271 㻌 34,807 㻌 35,506 㻌 36,139 㻌
5,307 㻌5,075 㻌6,174 㻌6,670 㻌6,279 㻌3,539 㻌0㻌41,260 㻌
588 㻌
16 㻌
0㻌
0㻌
2,880 㻌5,095 㻌7,975 㻌3,530 㻌0㻌42,367 㻌
581 㻌
26 㻌
0㻌
0㻌
2,964 㻌4,106 㻌7,070 㻌3,841 㻌0㻌43,509 㻌
575 㻌
23 㻌
1㻌
0㻌
2,623 㻌4,917 㻌7,540 㻌3,986 㻌0㻌47,410 㻌
686 㻌
27 㻌
1㻌
0㻌
2,968 㻌5,314 㻌8,282 㻌3,963 㻌0㻌46,764 㻌
768 㻌
37 㻌
1㻌
0㻌
2,877 㻌4,702 㻌7,579 㻌2,206 㻌2,506 㻌2,515 㻌2,731 㻌2,347 㻌28 㻌6,010 㻌8,244 㻌
11 㻌
0㻌
0㻌
433 㻌

14 㻌
4,943 㻌7,463 㻌
6㻌
0㻌
0㻌
375 㻌

20 㻌
5,346 㻌7,881 㻌
13 㻌
0㻌
0㻌
458 㻌

29 㻌
5,849 㻌8,609 㻌
11 㻌
0㻌
0㻌
526 㻌

26 㻌
5,380 㻌7,753 㻌
12 㻌
0㻌
0 㻌52
500 㻌

Legal System concerning Water Environment Conservation
Environmental Basic Law: Establishment of Environment Standards
Water Pollution Control Law
Notification System for Specific Facility, Common National Wastewater Control, Constant Monitoring of Water Quality, Total
Amount Control against Enclosed Coastal Seas, Living Drainage Countermeasure such as the designation of strategic regions
for living drainage countermeasure

Sewerage Law
Sewage Service Total Plan by Watershed, Installation of Public Sewage/River-Basin Sewage/City Sewage System, Notification
System for Specific Facility, Installation of Pretreatment Facility for Sewage System and Observation of Water DischargeStandard.

Waste Management and Public Cleansing Law
Basic Policy, Waste Disposal Facility Improvement Project, Waste Disposal Plan, General Waste Disposal Plan, General Waste
Management Service, Approval System for Industrial Waste Disposal Contractor, Approval System for Waste Import

Law relating to the Prevention of Marine Pollution and Maritime Disaster
Disposal Control for Oil / Harmful Liquid Substance / Waste Material from Ship and Vessel, Confirmation System for Harmful
Liquid Substance Exhaust, Approval System for Waste Disposal into the Sea, Seabed Disposal Control for Oil / Harmful Liquid
Substance / Waste Material

Agricultural Chemicals Regulation Law
Registration System for Agricultural Chemicals, Labeling Requirement for Agricultural Chemicals, Notification System for Seller,
Usage Control for Agricultural Chemicals/Water Pollution Prone Agricultural Chemicals

Groundwater Preservation Countermeasures
Continuous Monitoring on the Nature of Ground Water, Prohibition of hazardous substance infiltrating into underground,
Purification on Contaminated Groundwater53

4. Others: Pollution Control Manager System

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Pollution Control Manager System

㻌 At the time of the establishment of laws relating to pollution
control such as the Water Pollution Control Law, etc., manyfactories were not sufficiently equipped with a pollution control
system (human organization).
㻌 Therefore, they were obliged to install human organizations thatpossessed expertise about pollution control.

䛆Purpose䛇It aims at developing a pollution control structure at specified
factories by installing a pollution control manager system, etc.,
thereby contributing to pollution control.
䛆Specified Factory䛇
Smoke, sewage or wastewater, excessive noise, specified dust or
general dust, excessive vibration and dioxins.
Among the factories that discharge or generate the above items,
certain ones are designated as specified factories.
55Basic Concept for Pollution Control Manager System

Supervisor of pollution control(Factory manager)

Specified factories
beyond a certain
scale are obliged
to appoint:

Chief manager of pollution control(Smoke & sewage)(Environmental control department manager)[“Beyond a certain scale” means:]
Smoke emission: 40,000 m3/h or more
Effluent: average 10,000 m3/day or more

Pollution control manager
Pollution control manager
Pollution control manager(Noise, vibration, dust & Dioxins )(Smoke)(Sewage)(Environmental control division chief)(Environmental control division chief) (Environmental control division chief)56

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