Part 5 Water Pollution

Section 69
The Minister shall, with the advice of the Pollution Control Committee, have the power to publish notification in the Government Gazette specifying the types of point sources of pollution that shall be controlled in regard to the discharge of wastewaters or wastes into public water sources or into the environment outside the limits of such point sources, in conformity with the effluent standards set pursuant to section 55, or the standards set by any government agency by virtue of the other law which remain in force according to section 56, or the standards set by the Changwat Governor in special case for the pollution control area according to section 58.

Section 70
The owner or possessor of the point source of pollution under section 69 has the duty to construct, install or bring into operation an on-site facility for wastewater treatment or waste disposal as determined by the pollution control official. For this purpose, the pollution control official may also require that such owner or possessor commission a Monitoring Control Operator to control the wastewater treatment or waste disposal facility that shall be constructed, installed or brought into operation accordingly.

If any point source of pollution has had an on-site facility for wastewater treatment or waste disposal before the date of notification of the Minister under section 69, the owner or possessor of such point source of pollution shall inform the pollution control official to check the functioning system of the facility. If its capability to treat wastewaters or dispose of wastes fails to meet the applicable standards, the owner or possessor has the duty to modify or improve it in conformity with the pollution control official's directions.

Section 71
In any pollution control area or locality where a central wastewater treatment plant or a central waste disposal facility has been brought into operation by the administration concerned, the owner or possessor of the point source of pollution according to section 70 , first paragraph, who has not yet constructed, installed or brought into operation the on-site facility for wastewater treatment or waste disposal according to the prescription of the pollution control official, or may not want to construct or make arrangements for such a system, shall have the duty to send the wastewaters or wastes generated by his activities to the central wastewater treatment plant or central waste disposal facility in the pollution control area or in that locality for treatment or disposal and shall have the duty to pay the service fees at the rates fixed by virtue of this Act or the other related laws.

Section 72
In any pollution control area or locality where the central waste water treatment plant or central waste disposal facility has been brought into operation by the administration concerned, the owner or possessor of any point source of pollution, except those under section 69, shall have the duty to send wastewaters or wastes from his source of pollution to the central waste water treatment plant or the central waste disposal facility in that pollution control area or locality for treatment or disposal and shall have the duty to pay service fees at the rates fixed by virtue of this Act or the other related laws, except such point source of pollution has already had its own wastewater treatment or waste disposal facility which is capable to meet the standards prescribed under this Act.

Section 73
No person shall be employed as a Monitoring Control Operator or as a Service Contractor, who renders for hire the services of wastewater treatment or waste disposal, without obtaining the license from the local official.

Application and issuance of license, qualifications of the applicant, control of the licensee's performance, renewal of license, issuance of certificate in lieu of the license, suspension or revocation of the license and fee payments for the application and issuance of license shall be in accordance with the rules, procedures and conditions stipulated by ministerial regulation.

The person who has obtained a license to be a Service Contractor shall also be deemed to have obtained a license to be a Monitoring Control Operator.

In rendering the services of wastewater treatment or waste disposal by the Service Contractor according to the first paragraph, the service charges shall not exceed the rates fixed by the ministerial regulation.

Section 74
In any pollution control area or locality where the central wastewater treatment or central waste disposal facility of the public service is yet to be put into operation, but there is nonetheless a Service Contractor who is licensed to render such services within that area, the owner or possessor of the point source of pollution according to section 70 and section 71 shall be required to send the wastewaters or wastes from his point source for treatment or disposal by such Service Contractor in accordance with the rules, regulations, methods and conditions prescribed by the local official, with the advice of the pollution control official.

Section 75
In any pollution control area or locality where the central wastewater treatment or central waste disposal facility is yet to be put into service by the government and there is no licensed Service Contractor rendering services therein, the local official may, with the advice of the pollution control official, determine a temporary method necessary for the treatment of wastewaters or disposal of wastes from point sources of pollution under section 70 and section 71 until the central wastewater treatment or central waste disposal facility will have been constructed, installed and put into operation within such pollution control area or locality.

The temporary method for wastewater treatment or waste disposal according to the first paragraph shall mean to include the collection, transport or conveyance of wastewaters or wastes by whatever appropriate means to be treated or disposed by the central wastewater treatment plant or central waste disposal facility of the government in the other area; or to allow the licensed Service Contractor rendering services in the other area to render the same services in that pollution control area or locality temporarily; or to allow such licensed Service Contractor to collect and transport wastewaters or wastes to treat or dispose by his own wastewater treatment or waste disposal facility located outside that pollution control area or locality.

Section 76
Wastewaters treated by either the central wastewaters treatment plant of the government or by the wastewater treatment facility of the Service Contractor must also have the properties which meet the requirements of the effluent standards prescribed by virtue of section 55, or the standards prescribed by virtue of the other law which remain in force according to section 56, or the standards set by the Changwat Governor in special case for the pollution control area according to section 58.

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