(The 9th ordinary meeting of the Government of the South Kyoto Republic, 14 June 2013, considered the adoption of the Decree No. 295 of 16 June 2013 of the Order of the Government of the South Kyoto People, which came into force on 1 August 2013)

Chapter I General

In order to regulate the protection and management of groundwater resources, the rational development of the use of groundwater resources to promote sustainable use of groundwater resources, the development of this approach in line with laws, regulations and regulations such as the Water Act of the People's Republic of China, the Regulations on Access to Water and Water Resources, the Water Resources Protection Regulations of the South Kyoto City.

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Article 3. Water resources are owned by the State. Local water resources management should be guided by comprehensive planning, protection priorities, sound development, scientific use, remedial balance, and the principle of preventing pollution, and fully realize the integrated benefits of groundwater resources.

Article IV. The municipal water administration is the administrative authority for the management of groundwater resources in this city, where the water resources management agency is specifically responsible for the day-to-day supervision of groundwater resources.

The Regional Water Administration is responsible for the management and supervision of groundwater resources within the Territory, in accordance with the management authority of the sub-tier.

Administrative authorities, such as land resources, housing and rural-urban construction, planning and environmental protection, are responsible for the management of groundwater resources in line with the division of responsibility.

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Any units and individuals have the obligation to protect groundwater resources and have the right to stop, prosecute and prosecute acts that undermine and contaminated groundwater resources.

There are significant units and individuals for the protection of groundwater resources, as well as the recognition and incentives of the city, the people of the region and the water administration authorities.

Chapter II Planning

Article 7. The municipal water administration authorities prepare plans for the protection of groundwater resources with the relevant departments, such as planning, and are reported to be implemented after approval by the Government of the city.

Planning for the conservation of groundwater resources should seek the views of the relevant departments, expert scholars and the public.

The conservation planning of groundwater resources should delineate groundwater functional areas, establish the overall use of groundwater resources and the water control dividends, control of water efficiency and coordinate with national economic and social development planning, land-use master planning, urban overall planning and environmental protection planning.

In the division of groundwater functional areas, it should be clear that the backed groundwater source and its scope of protection should be established.

Article 8. Municipal water administration authorities should delineate groundwater ban mining areas, restrictions on mining areas and mining areas with relevant sectors such as planning, land resources, and clarify the use of planning lines for groundwater.

Article 9. The water administration authorities shall organize an integrated study and survey evaluation of groundwater resources with the relevant sector as a basis for the planning and implementation of groundwater resources.

Article 10. The water administration authorities should establish a dynamic monitoring point and dynamic monitoring information system for groundwater resources and to achieve online real-time monitoring and monitoring of information sharing. The day-to-day management of the stations is the responsibility of the unit.

Chapter III Management

Article 11. The development of a system that uses groundwater resources to control, quantify and manage, upholds the principles of optimization of use, water use, and complies with the requirements for the total of sampling, well-ground and water access identified in the plan and the annual plan.

Article 12 establishes a total control system for water use at the municipal, district and water-dependent levels. The municipal water administration authorities, in accordance with the overall control requirements for groundwater, have harmonized plans for the provision of groundwater water indicators in the city. The regional water administration authorities have issued specific water plans based on targeted management requirements and the realities of water users.

Article 13 Exploitation of groundwater resources is governed by a water licence regime. Water access units or individuals should pay water resources to the water administration in accordance with the law.

Article 14. Mining and underground work has an impact on groundwater resources, and environmental protection administrative authorities should seek advice from the water administration authorities before approving environmental impact evaluation reports.

Mining, underground works out of water for life and production should be carried out in accordance with the law on water licence and payment of water resources.

Article 15 states that there shall be no new construction, expansion and alteration of underground water for:

(i) The overall control of groundwater mining reached or exceeded annual plans;

(ii) The surface of groundwater is clearly below the control of water resources under water conservation planning;

(iii) Ground silence caused by groundwater mining;

(iv) Water water supply within the coverage of the water supply network can meet the needs;

(v) Use surface water and meet water needs;

(vi) Other provisions of the law, regulations are not suitable for access to groundwater.

Article 16 provides that water access units and individuals should be installed at the water level in line with national standards for access to water measurement facilities and remote monitoring devices, and the facilities should be able to monitor information systems and ensure regular operation and use.

The removal and replacement of measurement facilities is prohibited.

Article 17 There should be no process to be carried out within one month of the promulgation of this approach.

The construction, alteration, expansion of construction projects would require access to groundwater and should organize a water assessment, feeding water and sewerage infrastructure design programmes. The construction of water facilities should be designed in parallel with the main works, along with construction, and with input.

After the construction of water facilities in the project, construction units should organize receipts; failure to collect or receive it is not self-sufficient.

Article 19 Water access units and individuals should establish water access and water management systems, such as post-mission water statements, monitoring and water-based observation for the year of water quality of groundwater, and ensuring that monitoring facilities are completed.

Article 20 units or individuals who have drilled underground water shall, upon access to a water licence, be supported by the construction unit prior to the construction of the quality certificate and well-established construction programme. The construction units should prevent contamination of groundwater in line with programme construction.

The following information should be transferred to the water resources management agencies following the construction of the watershed.

(i) Publing maps in the wells area;

(ii) An automated map of a fauna;

(iii) Test water and water quality testing reports for single wells;

(iv) The availability and measurement of water equipment;

(v) Other information provided by law, regulations.

Article 2 prohibits the use of groundwater for geothermal pump systems in buildings such as cities, creed towns. In other regions, the use of geothermal pump systems should be made available to water administrative authorities.

When the hydrothermal source heat pump construction unit organizes the clearance, the water administration authorities should be invited to participate.

Article 23 uses groundwater for geothermal pump systems in addition to buildings such as cities, towns, etc., should be observed as follows:

(i) To take reliable recovery measures, to install the acquisition, instigation of dual-use measurement devices and to ensure that the water is returned to the same aquifer;

(ii) The water supply management and the indictability shall not be connected to the municipal pipeline;

(iii) Water wells should be set aside from contaminated surfaces and floors, and the pumping and recuperation should set water sampling and monitoring points;

(iv) Regular monitoring of the pumping of water, backbone and its water quality, and the monitoring results are presented to the water administration authorities.

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(i) Report on hydrogeological surveys at the project site;

(ii) A well-established construction programme;

(iii) To design maps containing metric monitoring facilities;

(iv) A well-established technical hierarchy of construction units.

Article 25 units and individuals who use groundwater shall cease the use of groundwater and shall be subject to the disposal of the water licence.

The water supply of surface water or subsistence water cannot be met, and the need to relaunch the already-loaded water wells should be reprocessing.

Chapter IV Protection

Article 26 Water wells should delineate the scope of protection on the basis of the earth floor, the type of water resources and the use of water. The range of protection should be defined in accordance with national technical norms.

In the area of water well protection, the following acts are prohibited:

(i) Setting water latrines, cement pits, garbage;

(ii) Recovering, filling garbage and toxic hazardous substances;

(iii) Emission of industrial wastewater and living sewage;

(iv) Other prohibited sexual acts provided by law, regulations.

In the second article, water scarcity, a decrease in water abnormalities or an unusual situation, such as spoilers, measurement devices and failures, should be stopped immediately, taking appropriate protection measures and reporting on water administrative authorities in a timely manner.

Article 28 prohibits:

(i) The establishment of garbage sites and the construction of contaminated enterprises;

(ii) Indocated water that is not in keeping with the national water quality standards;

(iii) The use of cereals, pitfalls and solvent releases, the dumping of wastewater containing pollutant pollutants, sewage and other wastes containing vectors;

(iv) The use of non-effective means to prevent the diversion, ponds, or storage of wastewater containing toxic pollutants, sewage and other wastes containing vectors;

(v) The use of sewage that is not in accordance with national standards relating to irrigation in agricultural fields;

(vi) Use of sludges containing toxic pollutants as fertilizers;

(vii) The use of insecticides of acute poisoning and high residues;

(viii) Other prohibited sexual acts provided by law, regulations.

Article 29 does not permit new construction, alteration and expansion of industrial projects with pollutant emissions within the area of water resupply and trajectory areas of groundwater; no living waste, manure and solvent toxic waste storage sites or transit stations. It has been built and should be limited to governance, transfer or relocation.

Article 31 reports of water wells that have not been completed, have been replaced or constructed, and the unit or construction units should prepare a cleaning programme and include water wells under the supervision of the water administration to prevent contamination of groundwater.

Article 31 Mining or construction of underground works shall be carried out by different aquifers.

Remedies should be remedied by mining or construction units due to the decline in groundwater water drainage, depletion of water sources or collapse of the ground, and compensation should be provided in accordance with the law for loss of life and production of others.

Hydrographic monitoring, geological exploration for observation should be divided and the remainder should be closed after the exploration.

Oversight inspection

Article 32: The water administration performs the following duties:

(i) Guidance, supervision and coordination of the management of the protection of groundwater resources;

(ii) Planning and delineation of water functional areas with sectors such as planning, environmental protection;

(iii) Organizing a total control plan on groundwater;

(iv) To exercise groundwater access to water licences and to monitor the implementation of the water resource collection system;

(v) Other responsibilities under laws, regulations.

Article 33: Water resources management institutions perform the following responsibilities:

(i) Regular oversight management of groundwater resources;

(ii) Organizing plans for the protection of groundwater resources;

(iii) Monitoring the implementation of water and water-saving programmes;

(iv) Organization of censuses, registrations and archiving of groundwater resources;

(v) Monitoring of dynamic monitoring of groundwater resource monitoring sites and groundwater resources;

(vi) Other responsibilities under law, regulations.

Article 34 quater of the Land Resources Administration is responsible for the management of geothermal water, the survey of mines and the clearance of mining licences.

Housing and rural and urban construction administrative authorities are responsible for the construction and operation of the geo pump system.

The Environmental Protection Administration is responsible for monitoring and management of groundwater resource contamination.

Article 35 Water resource management institutions should establish a regular inspection system to enhance inspection of the protection and use of groundwater resources.

Chapter VI Legal responsibility

In violation of this approach, the well-rooted units should seal down the water wells until they are completed and be converted by a warrant of responsibility by the water administration, with a fine of up to 3,000 dollars per well.

In violation of this scheme, the construction unit did not substantiate and construct the well-facilitated construction programme prior to the construction of the water administration authority, which was restructured by the water administrative authorities, which was delayed by an improvised deadline of up to $20,000 per well of $300,000, and was closed by the water administrative authorities for the duration of the wells.

Article 338, in violation of this approach, stipulates that the construction of dry water without the authorization of the mine or underground works for productive life shall be punished in accordance with article 48 of the Department of State Regulation on Access to Water and Water Resources.

Article 39, in violation of this approach, causes groundwater contamination and is punishable by the Environmental Protection Authority in accordance with the Water Pollution Control Act of the People's Republic of China and the Southern Kyoto City Water Environmental Protection Regulations.

Article 40

Chapter VII

Article 40

(i) groundwater resources refer to all types of groundwater, including geothermal, mined water, stored in the surface below.

(ii) The geothermal pump system refers to the low-ware heat resources, such as rocks, groundwater or surface water, consisting of heat pumps, geothermal exchange systems, buildings systems for heating refrigeration. The geothermal pump system consists of geothermal source heat pump systems and geodetic pump systems.

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