Trial operator of waste treatment

According to the provisions of Decree 08/2022/NĐ-CP, except for some cases, all remaining projects after being granted an environmental license must strictly comply with the regulations on testing and operating testing waste treatment.

Trial operator time from 3 to 6 months

Project investor announces trial operator time for waste treatment, list of project items to government agencies before 10 days working cause of following and checking. If the government agency is the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (TN&MT Ministry), we must send more specialized agencies in charge of environmental protection at the provincial level for coordination, inspection, and supervision of the implementation.

Time of trial operator of waste treatment from 3 to 6 months. In case, the clients of the project are too large (industrial clusters) to be polluted with high capacity. So that time for this case is not over 6 months.

In progress, the project owner is responsible for a professional agency about environmental protection at the provincial level to control the waste treatment progress. If the project from water, dust, and air is automatically monitored, they ought to oversee and arrange the figures by camera. Besides, self-monitoring when meeting the technical guidance of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment or coordinating with organizations qualified to operate environmental monitoring services to monitor waste, and evaluate the effectiveness of the monitoring system. waste treatment process.

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Ought to do again when waste to the environment is not achieved.

Especially, if waste from the trial operator's progress move out environment is not achieved, an investor will take measures: stop running the project or decrease output capacity to confirm the waste treatment still solves extra waste ( achieve to good environment technical ) and environment permits, check all things and deal with solutions.

In case, an environmental emergency is happening, the investor has to stop running the waste treatment and promptly report to the environment license agency, but the environment license agency gave to an investor TN&MT Ministry should connect to the provincial agency. Later they can solve environmental problems, responsible for environment troubleshooting, fixing, and adding.

Following to, an investor has a plan to run a trial operator for every item to know how to achieve. On the other hand, the investor has to report every item that is not up to standard.  

Regarding the planning of trial operation for re-operation, many local voters asked the question, in case there is 1 successful project and 1 failed project, will the successful project be granted an environmental permit? or not?

Responding to this issue, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment said: Relying on the provisions of Clause 2, Article 46 of the Law on Environmental Protection in 2020, the trial operation of waste treatment works after being granted an Environmental License. Therefore, the issuance of an environmental license does not depend on the trial operation, but the trial operation must be carried out according to the approved plan in the environmental permits. In case the test operation result fails, the test operation must be performed again

For a project that has been put into trial operation as prescribed in Clause 1 of this Article but has one waste treatment facility that passes and one fails, the project owner shall make a dossier of application for an environmental permit for the above works. in which, it is proposed to continue the trial operation of waste treatment works with unsuccessful results (re-operate) for the licensing agency to consider and grant permits according to regulations.

Source: Vietnam TN&MT Ministry