Air & Transportation
Regulatory Measures against Air Pollutants Emitted from Factories and Business Sites and the Outline of Regulation - Specific substance emission facilities and designated substance control standard relating to dioxins
Specific substance emission facilities and designated substance control standard relating to dioxins
| Designated substance emission facilities (designated by government ordinance) | Outline of designated substance restriction standard (set by official notification) | |
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| 12 | Electric furnaces designed for steel manufacturing (excluding facilities designed for cast or forged steel manufacturing) with a transformer that has a rated capacity of at least 1,000 kilovolt ampere. | New facility: 0.5 ng-TEQ/m3N Existing facility: 5 ng-TEQ/m3N |
| 13 | Refuse incinerators with a stoker area of 2 square meters or greater, or with an hourly incineration capacity of 200 kilograms or greater. | Refuse incinerators with a stoker area of 2 square meters or greater with an hourly incineration capacity of at least 200 kilograms, less than 2,000 kilograms. New facility: 5 ng-TEQ/m3N Existing facility: 10 ng-TEQ/m3N |
| Refuse incinerators with an hourly incineration capacity of at least 2,000 kilograms, but less than 4,000 kilograms. New facility: 1 ng-TEQ/m3N Existing facility: 5 ng-TEQ/m3N |
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| Refuse incinerators with an hourly incineration capacity of 4,000 kilograms or greater. New facility: 0.1 ng-TEQ/m3N Existing facility: 1 ng-TEQ/m3N |
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| Attached rules: The criteria for existing facilities shall be 80 ng-TEQ/m3N from December 1, 1998 to November 30, 2002 | ||
Note) TEQ: Toxicity Equivalency Quantity