1. Reasons for Amendment
- To improve and shorten various administrative procedures for promoting the installation of waste treatment facilities, expand financial resources for resident support projects for residents in surrounding affected areas, and clarify the criteria for imposing obligations to install waste treatment facilities resulting from housing site development projects.
2. Main Contents
A. Clarification of Obligations to Install Waste Treatment Facilities Pursuant to Housing Site Development Projects (Article 4)
- Persons intending to develop a housing complex or housing site with a developed area of 300,000 square meters or more shall install waste treatment facilities within such complex or site.
- In connection therewith, the developed area of a "housing site" shall be clearly defined as the sum of the areas for housing construction land and public facilities land, and cases lacking housing construction land shall be excluded, thereby clarifying the targets subject to the obligation to install waste treatment facilities.
B. Establishment of an Obligation for Consultation Among Relevant Local Governments upon Regional Waste Treatment (Article 4)
- Where the head of a basic local government utilizes a regional waste treatment facility pursuant to Article 5, Paragraph 1 of the Wastes Control Act to treat wastes within their jurisdiction, the burden of treating domestic wastes generated by the creation of new residential complexes through housing site development projects is shifted to the head of the local government operating the regional waste treatment facility.
- Accordingly, regarding the decision on whether it is necessary to install waste treatment facilities pursuant to a housing site development project, where the head of a basic local government intends to treat wastes generated from a housing complex or housing site through a regional waste treatment facility, they shall consult with the head of the local government operating the relevant facility.
C. Increase in the Upper Limit of Surcharges on Waste Treatment Fees (Article 5)
- To promote the installation of waste treatment facilities and enhance public acceptance of such facilities, there is a need to expand the financial resources of the resident support fund.
- The upper limit of the surcharge on waste treatment fees among the financial resources of the resident support fund is increased from within 10 percent of the waste treatment fee to within 20 percent of the waste treatment fee.
D. Shortening of Administrative Procedures for Expanding Waste Treatment Facilities Within the Same Site (Articles 10-2 and 18)
- Where the scale of a waste treatment facility already installed and in operation increases by 30 percent or more, an alternative site selection committee must be reconstituted and its consent must be obtained pursuant to Article 9, Paragraph 8 of the Act and Article 10-2 of the Enforcement Decree of the same Act. However, the site selection committee must be reconstituted even though only the scale of the waste treatment facility increases without any change in the site area or location of the selected site.
- Where the scale of an operating waste treatment facility increases by 30 percent or more, but the site area and location of the selected site remain unchanged and a resolution of the resident support consultative body pursuant to Article 17-2 of the Act has been passed, such cases shall be excluded from the changes in site requiring consent from the site selection committee.
