SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS
(Emission Standard of the Designated Substances)
9. The Director General of the Environment Agency, for the time being, shall set Emission standards for hazardous air pollutants (hereinafter referred to as "designated substances") designated by Cabinet Order as those which it is necessary to reduce the emission or discharge of urgently to prevent human health damage through air pollution, and shall make public those Emission standards. Those Emission standards shall be set considering the sort of facilities designated by Cabinet Order as those which emit or discharge designated substances (hereinafter referred to as the "designated facilities") and shall be applied to those designated facilities.
(Recommendations)
10. Taking into consideration the Emission standards set in accordance with the preceding paragraph, a prefectural governor may recommend that the owner of a designated facility take necessary measures to reduce the emission of or discharge of designated substances, in order to prevent air pollution by the designated substances from causing any human health damage in that governor's jurisdiction.
(Reports)
11. A prefectural governor may ask the owner mentioned in the preceding paragraph to report the conditions at designated facilities and other things necessary to make an appropriate recommendation in accordance with the preceding paragraph.
SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS of the 1996 Amendments
(The Date of Enforcement of the Amendments)
1. This amendment shall be enforced within less than a year after the day of the promulgation (May 9th,1996) and the day of enforcement shall be determined by Cabinet Order.
(Review)
3. About 3 years after the day of enforcement of the 1996 amendments, the government shall review the scheme for the promotion of measures concerning hazardous air pollutants stipulated in the 1996 amendments and take necessary steps to prevent air pollution by hazardous air pollutants from causing any human health damage in the future, considering our scientific knowledge of the human health effects of hazardous air pollutants, how much we has achieved the Environment Quality Standards set under the Basic Environment Law Article 16 paragraph 1, the state of air pollution from hazardous air pollutants, the present situation of emissions and discharges of hazardous air pollutants from factories, the development of technologies useful for reducing emissions and discharges of hazardous air pollutants from factories, and other considerations.
