Seawater Pollution Prevention Law.

This Law is enacted for the purpose of providing strict guidelines for the prevention of seawater pollution, thereby protecting the quality of seawater and natural resources.
The State shall designate water quality protection zones with a view to specially protecting certain areas of the sea (art.3). Institutions, enterprises, and organizations shall not, in the water quality protection zones, conduct prospecting or install structures that may pollute the seawater therein (art.4). Institutions, enterprises and organizations that wish to construct ports, fuel storage, atomic power plants and the like by the sea shall submit a document of environmental impact assessment to the land and environmental protection organ. The land and environmental protection organ shall examine the document and decide on either approval or rejection (art.5). Institutions, enterprises and organizations that use agricultural chemicals shall prevent them from flowing into the sea. Highly toxic agricultural chemicals shall not be applied to the water of the paddy field that may flow into the sea (art.9).The Law further makes provisions, inter allia, for: purification of wastewater, disposal of waste material at seaside, anti-pollution facilities, discarding of waste produced by ships, discarding of waste produced by ships, notification of toxic substances, etc.