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Two Environmental Evaluation Bodies Punished

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Two bodies charged with evaluating the environmental impact of projects have been punished by the government, with one believed to have caused environmental problems near the site of the Three Gorges project.

The State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA) announced on Wednesday that the two bodies, an architecture institute and a chemical engineering company, will not be allowed to make environmental evaluations for six months until they had corrected their errors.

The two bodies had drawn wrong conclusions in their reports for two chemical plants on their impact on the environment and provided incorrect technical information for administrators, SEPA said.

The chemical engineering company had drawn up the environmental impact report for a chemical plant with an annual production capacity of 4,000-tons of sodium cyanide in south China's Sichuan Province in 1995.

Its report had ignored the fact that the plant was located little more than 10 meters at the least from the reservoir of the Three Gorges project, which was considered a serious mistake.

SEPA held that the architecture institute had not made an accurate analysis in its report for a chemical plant with an annual production capacity of 6,000-tons of sodium cyanide in north China's Hebei Province near China's capital city, Beijing.

An industrial or infrastructure project in China is required to prove itself harmless to the environment in an environmental impact report made by a qualified body before it gets government approval.

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