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Ministerial Decree No. 1036 regarding the validation of the Regulation on state control over the protection of groundwater.

Country/Territory
Russian Federation
Document type
Regulation
Date
1959 (1982)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Photocopy.
Subject
Water
Keyword
Groundwater Water abstraction Well sinking/boreholes
Geographical area
Arctic, Asia and the Pacific, Black Sea, Caspian Sea, CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), Eastern Europe, Europe, Europe and Central Asia, North Pacific, North-West Pacific
Abstract

The Government of the U.S.S.R., for the purpose of strengthening state control over the protection of groundwater from exhaustion and pollution, decrees as follows: 1) To establish the following order of boring of water abstraction holes and transformation of exploratory drilling holes into operational ones, drilling of absorbing holes as well as the modalities of construction of waterworks that are compelling for every enterprise, organization and department irrespectively of the departmental subordination: 2) Drilling of operational holes of water abstraction, transformation of exploratory drilling holes, construction and transformation of piping structures for the exploitation of underground water are carried out after the authorization issued by the Geology Ministries (Departments) of the Union Republics or industrial geological associations and in accordance with state sanitary survey institutions and state water institutions; if these kinds of work are carried out by the minerals' extraction enterprises then must be obtained the authorization of the organs of state geological survey. 3) Drilling of absorbing holes and the construction of absorbing wells for water escape of industrial, communal and domestic, drainage and sewage is permitted in accordance with the authorization issued by the Geology Ministries (Departments) of the Union Republics or industrial geological associations issued after the completion of special research in the area of well sinking and well construction, in the presence of the resolution of the Chief State Sanitary Inspector of the respective Union Republic and state geological survey institutions. 4) Drilling of absorbing holes and the construction of absorbing wells for the aforesaid purposes are prohibited for all occurrences when these holes and wells can become the source of pollution for water-bearing level that can be used or are suitable for potable or domestic water supply as well as for other water uses. 5) The use of groundwater and water escape of sewage into subterranean water-bearing level can be carried out only in the presence of the authorization on special water use issued in accordance with the modalities envisaged by the legislation currently in force.

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