Extended data:
People's Republic of China (PRC) Environmental Protection Law;
Article 63 If an enterprise, institution or other producer or operator commits one of the following acts, which does not constitute a crime, it shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of relevant laws and regulations, transferred to the public security organ by the competent department of environmental protection of the people's government at or above the county level or other relevant departments, and the directly responsible person in charge and other directly responsible personnel shall be detained for more than 10 days and less than 15 days; If the circumstances are relatively minor, they shall be detained for more than five days and less than ten days:
(a) the construction project failed to carry out environmental impact assessment according to law, and was ordered to stop construction and refused to implement it;
(two) in violation of the law, without obtaining a sewage permit, was ordered to stop sewage, refused to implement;
(three) illegal discharge of pollutants by means of concealed pipes, seepage wells, seepage pits, perfusion or tampering with or forging monitoring data, or the pollution prevention and control facilities are not operating normally to escape supervision;
(four) the production and use of pesticides prohibited by the state, after being ordered to correct, refused to correct.
People's Republic of China (PRC) Water Pollution Prevention Law;
Article 39 It is forbidden to use seepage wells, pits, cracks and caves, set concealed pipes privately, tamper with or forge monitoring data, or operate water pollution prevention and control facilities abnormally to escape supervision and discharge water pollutants.
Article 83 Whoever, in violation of the provisions of this Law, commits any of the following acts shall be ordered by the competent department of environmental protection of the people's government at or above the county level to make corrections or stop production or rectification, and be fined at least 100,000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan; If the circumstances are serious, it shall be reported to the people's government with the power of examination and approval and ordered to suspend business or close down:
(1) Discharging water pollutants without obtaining a sewage discharge permit according to law;
(two) the discharge of water pollutants that exceed the discharge standards of water pollutants or exceed the total discharge control indicators of key water pollutants;
(3) using seepage wells, pits, cracks and caves to discharge water pollutants, setting concealed pipes privately, tampering with or forging monitoring data, or not operating water pollution prevention facilities normally to escape supervision;
(four) failing to carry out pretreatment in accordance with the provisions, and discharging industrial wastewater that does not meet the requirements of the treatment process to the centralized sewage treatment facilities.
References:
People's Republic of China (PRC) Environmental Protection Law-Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China (PRC) Water Pollution Prevention Law-Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China