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MEE; SAMR

Level / Type

National · Mandatory

Issue date

December 8, 2020

Implementation date

July 1, 2021

Scope

GB 39731-2020 (Discharge standard of water pollutants for electronic industry) is available as an English-translated PDF.

GB 39731-2020 — This standard specifies the requirements for water pollutant discharge control, monitoring, supervisory management for the electronics industry. This standard applies to the management of water pollutant discharge from existing electronic industrial enterprises, production facilities or research and development lines, as well as the environmental impact assessment, environmental protection facility design, completion environmental protection acceptance, issuance of pollutant discharge permits, water pollutant discharge management after the electronic industrial construction projects are put into operation. The management of water pollutant discharge from centralized wastewater treatment facilities in the electronic industry is applicable to this standard. The water pollutant discharge control requirements specified in this standard apply to the behavior of electronic industrial enterprises and centralized wastewater treatment facilities in the electronic industry directly or indirectly discharging water pollutants outside their legal boundaries.

Document preview — GB 39731-2020

National Standard of the People's Republic of China

Issued by: MEE; SAMR

Contents

  • Foreword...3
  • 1 Scope...5
  • 2 Normative references...5
  • 3 Terms and definitions...9
  • 4 Water pollutant discharge control requirements...12
  • 5 Requirements for water pollutant monitoring...16
  • 6 Standardization requirements for sewage outlets...21
  • 7 Implementation and supervision...21
  • Appendix A (Normative) Scope of products covered by special electronic materials22

Foreword

This standard is formulated, to implement the Environmental Protection Law of the

People's Republic of China, the Water Pollution Prevention and Control Law of the

People's Republic of China, the Marine Environmental Protection Law of the People's

Republic of China and other laws and regulations; to prevent and control environmental

pollution, improve environmental quality, promote technological progress and

sustainable development of the electronics industry.

This standard specifies the water pollutant discharge control requirements, monitoring

requirements, supervision and management requirements for electronic industrial

enterprises, production facilities or research and development lines. The water pollutant

discharge management of centralized wastewater treatment facilities in the electronics

industry is also applicable to this standard.

The discharge of atmospheric pollutants (including odorous pollutants) and

environmental noise from electronic industrial enterprises, production facilities or

research and development lines, centralized wastewater treatment facilities in the

electronics industry shall be subject to the corresponding national pollutant discharge

standards; the identification, treatment, disposal of solid wastes shall be subject to the

corresponding national standards on solid waste pollution control.

This standard is published for the first time.

For the new electronic industrial enterprises from July 1, 2021, and the existing

enterprises from January 1, 2024, the water pollutant discharge control shall be

implemented in accordance with the provisions of this standard; the relevant provisions

of the Integrated wastewater discharge standard (GB 8978-1996) and the Discharge

standard of pollutants for electroplating (GB 21900-2008) shall no longer be

implemented. Local governments may implement this standard in advance with the

approval of local provincial people's governments, according to local ecological and

environmental protection needs and economic and technical conditions.

This standard is the basic requirement for the control of water pollutant discharges from

the electronics industry. Provincial people's governments may formulate local pollutant

discharge standards for items not specified in this standard; for items already specified

in this standard, they may formulate local pollutant discharge standards that are stricter

than this standard.

This standard was formulated under the organization by the Water Ecology and

Environment Department and the Regulations and Standards Department of the

Ministry of Ecology and Environment.

The main drafting organizations of this standard. China Electronics Engineering Design

Institute Co., Ltd., Environmental Standards Institute of the Ministry of Ecology and

Discharge standard of water pollutants for electronic

industry

1 Scope

This standard specifies the requirements for water pollutant discharge control,

monitoring, supervisory management for the electronics industry.

This standard applies to the management of water pollutant discharge from existing

electronic industrial enterprises, production facilities or research and development lines,

as well as the environmental impact assessment, environmental protection facility

design, completion environmental protection acceptance, issuance of pollutant

discharge permits, water pollutant discharge management after the electronic industrial

construction projects are put into operation.

The management of water pollutant discharge from centralized wastewater treatment

facilities in the electronic industry is applicable to this standard.

The water pollutant discharge control requirements specified in this standard apply to

the behavior of electronic industrial enterprises and centralized wastewater treatment

facilities in the electronic industry directly or indirectly discharging water pollutants

outside their legal boundaries.

2 Normative references

The content of this standard refers to the following documents or clauses therein. For

all referenced documents without a year, the latest version applies to this standard.

GB 6920 Water quality - Determination of pH value - Glass electrode method

GB 7466 Water quality - Determination of total chromium - Potassium

permanganate oxidation-diphenylcarbohydrazide spectrophotometric method

GB 7467 Water quality - Determination of chromium (6) - 1.5

Diphenylcarbahydrazide spectrophotometric method

GB 7470 Water quality - Determination of lead - Spectrophotometric method with

dithizone

GB 7471 Water quality - Determination of cadmium - Spectrophotometric method

with dithizone

boards and flexible boards, which can be divided into single-sided printed circuit

boards, double-sided printed circuit boards, multi-layer printed circuit boards, rigid-

flexible printed circuit boards, high-density interconnector (HDI) printed circuit

boards.

3.5 Semiconductor device

Electronic devices with specific functions, which are manufactured using the special

electrical properties of semiconductor materials. It includes two major categories of

products. discrete devices and integrated circuits.

3.6 Display device

Device that presents information for visual perception based on electronic means. It

includes thin film transistor liquid crystal display devices, low-temperature

polycrystalline silicon thin film transistor liquid crystal display devices, organic

light-emitting diode display devices, vacuum fluorescent display devices, field

discharge display devices, plasma display devices, curved display devices, flexible

display devices.

3.7 Photoelectronic device

Various functional devices made using the semiconductor light-electron (or electric-

photon) conversion effect. It includes light-emitting diodes; photoelectric converters

and photodetectors in semiconductor optoelectronic devices; gas laser devices,

semiconductor laser devices, solid-state laser devices, electrostatic induction

devices in laser devices; optical communication circuits and other devices;

semiconductor lighting devices, etc.

3.8 Electronic terminal product

Electronic products or components with independent application functions, which

are assembled based on printed circuit board assembly technology. It includes

communication equipment, radar equipment, radio and television equipment,

electronic computers, audio-visual equipment, etc.

3.9 Existing facility

Electronic industrial enterprises, production facilities or research and development

lines that have been completed and put into production or whose environmental

impact assessment documents have been approved before the implementation of this

standard, as well as centralized sewage treatment facilities for the electronic industry.

3.10 New facility

New, rebuilt, expanded electronic industry or electronic industrial sewage treatment

facility construction projects whose environmental impact assessment documents

have been approved since the implementation of this standard.

3.11 Direct discharge

The act of a pollutant discharger directly discharging water pollutants into

environmental water bodies.

3.12 Indirect discharge

The act of a pollutant discharger discharging water pollutants into centralized

sewage treatment facilities.

3.13 Concentrated wastewater treatment facilities

Wastewater treatment facilities that provide wastewater treatment services for two

or more pollutant dischargers, including urban wastewater treatment facilities of

various sizes and types, centralized wastewater treatment facilities of industrial

agglomeration areas (economic and technological development zones, high-tech

industrial development zones, export processing zones and other industrial parks),

as well as other wastewater treatment facilities shared by two or more pollutant

dischargers.

3.14 Concentrated wastewater treatment facilities for electronic industry

Wastewater treatment facilities that provide wastewater treatment services

specifically for two or more electronic industry pollutant dischargers.

3.15 Effluent volume

The amount of wastewater discharged by an enterprise or production facility outside

the legal boundaries of the enterprise, including various types of effluents that are

directly or indirectly related to production (including domestic sewage, cooling

sewage, boiler drainage in the plant area, etc.).

3.16 Benchmark effluent volume per unit product

The upper limit of the effluent volume per unit product, which is used to determine

the concentration of water pollutants discharged.

3.17 Dilution level

The reciprocal of the total volume fraction of the original water sample after dilution,

generally expressed as D. For example, if the water sample is not diluted, the dilution

level D = 1; if 250 ml of the water sample is diluted to 1000 ml (i.e., the volume

fraction is 25%), the dilution level D = 4.

3.18 Lowest ineffective dilution

When the production facilities of an enterprise produce more than two products at the

same time, different discharge control requirements or national pollutant discharge

standards for different industries may be applied. When the wastewater generated by

the production facilities is treated and discharged in a mixed manner, the most stringent

concentration limit specified in the discharge standard shall be implemented,

meanwhile converted into the benchmark discharge volume concentration of water

pollutants according to formula (1).

C benchmark = (Q total / sumYiQi benchmark) x C measured (1)

Where.

C benchmark - Water pollutant benchmark discharge concentration, mg/L;

Q total - Measured total discharge, m3;

Yi - The i-th product output, see Table 2 for units;

Qi benchmark - The unit product benchmark discharge of the i-th product, see Table 2

for units;

C measured - The measured water pollutant discharge concentration, mg/L.

If the ratio of Q total to sumYiQi benchmark is less than 1, the measured concentration of water

pollutants is used as the basis for determining whether the discharge meets the standard.

5 Requirements for water pollutant monitoring

5.1 Enterprises shall establish an enterprise environmental monitoring system and

formulate monitoring plans, in accordance with relevant laws and regulations such as

the "Environmental Monitoring Management Measures"; conduct self-monitoring of

pollutant discharges and their impact on the surrounding environment as required; keep

original monitoring records. For petroleum, total nitrogen, anionic surfactants, total

organic carbon, sulfides, the self-monitoring frequency of key pollutant discharge

organizations shall be at least once a month; the other pollutant discharge organizations

shall be at least once a year.

5.2 The requirements for new and existing facilities to install automatic monitoring

equipment for pollutant discharges shall be implemented, in accordance with relevant

laws and the "Measures for the Administration of Automatic Monitoring of Pollution

Sources". Key pollutant-discharging organizations shall install automatic monitoring

equipment for key water pollutant discharges; connect them to the monitoring

equipment of the ecological and environmental authorities; ensure the normal operation

of the monitoring equipment.

5.3 The setting of monitoring sampling points and sampling methods for water

6 Standardization requirements for sewage outlets

6.1 The setting of sewage outlets and sampling points shall comply with the provisions

of HJ 91.1.

6.2 In accordance with the relevant provisions of GB 15562.1 and the "Notice on

Issuing the Technical Specifications of Discharge Outlet Signs", warning sewage outlet

signs shall be set up in conspicuous places near sewage outlets or sampling points and

retained for a long time.

7 Implementation and supervision

7.1 The ecological environment authorities at or above the county level are responsible

for supervising the implementation of this standard.

7.2 Enterprises are the responsible entities for implementing discharge standards. Under

any circumstances, enterprises shall comply with the pollutant discharge control

requirements specified in this standard and take necessary measures to ensure the

normal operation of pollution prevention and control facilities. When conducting law

enforcement inspections on enterprises, the ecological and environmental authorities at

all levels can use the results of on-site real-time sampling or monitoring as the basis for

determining whether the discharge behavior complies with the discharge standards and

implementing relevant ecological and environmental protection management measures.

7.3 Key pollutant-discharging organizations shall set up electronic display screens at

locations such as the factory gate where the public can easily supervise; publish online

monitoring data of water pollutants and other environmental information to the public

in real time, in accordance with the "Measures for the Disclosure of Environmental

Information of Enterprises and Institutions".

7.4 Metering devices, monitoring devices, signboards, environmental information

disclosure facilities, etc. related to sewage discharge outlets shall be supervised and

managed as ecological and environmental protection facilities. Enterprises shall

establish special management systems and arrange special personnel to carry out

construction, management, and maintenance. No organization shall dismantle, move or

modify them without authorization.

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Referenced standards

Normative references

GB 6920 · GB 7466 · GB 7467 · GB 7470 · GB 7471

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