EPA environmental petition summary of the work in 2005: From the masses, we do not relax, and provide a one-stop service for reception, registration, and replies to enhance the level of environmental petitions. This serves the economy and stabilizes society. The following is a report on the environmental petition work of the Bureau in 2005:
1. Strengthening the leadership of environmental petition work and enhancing the investigation and handling capacity of environmental petitions to reflect the voice of the people. The good or bad handling of petitions directly relates to the image of the environmental protection department among the people.
- First, our bureau established the number one person responsible, specifically dealing with overall responsibility, leading the work of handling letters and visits into the main agenda, studying and solving major problems encountered in the petition work, guiding the work of handling letters and visits.
- Second, the Environmental Report Center by the monitoring detachment assigned tasks to departments, individual responsibilities, and strict assessment, forming an upper and lower shared petition work situation.
- Third, formulated and improved systems and the leadership of the Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau reception day system. The detachment also developed a series of petition handling systems, procedures, and stringent requirements from reception, registration, leadership marking, handling, inspection, feedback, etc., putting the petition work further into standardization.
2. In concrete work, we adhere to the four efforts, four are not allowed: contradictions are not allowed to be handed over, are not allowed to stand, are not allowed ineffective supervision, are not allowed to check and no fruit.
3. Strengthening the principle of service and changing the style of work in environmental petitions to change from passive to active and ensure preventive measures.
- First, take the initiative to report and carefully listen to their views, achieving support from the National People's Congress, CPPCC leadership.
- Second, strictly implement construction project environmental approvals, EIA systems, and reduce and simplify approval procedures, implementing one-stop approval. For projects requiring higher-level approval, implement a system to help coordinate and approve formalities. Reduce environmental impact assessment charges, establish the Center for Environmental Assessment, expert database of project approval, provide technical services for free to enterprises, and encourage pollution control facilities through reduced sewage charges.
4. Increase the supervision and management of old sources of pollution, clean up resolutely banned enterprises that illegally discharge pollutants. Conduct special actions to protect public health and the environment for three consecutive years since 2003. Control high energy-consuming industries, especially ferroalloy and calcium carbide production enterprises. Implement specific measures at specific stages to achieve prevention-based preventive measures.
5. Strict law enforcement, apply to the court to enforce administrative penalty cases where environmental laws fail to be fulfilled. Address the environmental hotspots and difficult problems that concern the masses in economic development, promoting social progress while bringing unavoidable environmental issues.
6. In the process of closing coking enterprises, timely feedback to higher authorities and cooperate with relevant departments to do ideological work of the owners and employees. Start emergency plans to handle unexpected incidents, coordinate police, court, procuratorate, armed police, fire departments, issue notices through media, and complete tasks required by the inspection teams.
The work was smoothly carried out without groups or unexpected events, completing the tasks required by the inspection teams.