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Korea - Labor Law - promoting and supporting water reuse (Article 1 ~ 4 of Chapter 1)

※ This English statute is provided by the Korea Legislative Research Institute and is a reference material to enhance the understanding of Korean statutes, and has no legal or official effect.

[Enforcement Date 25. Jun, 2019.] [Act No.16080, 24. Dec, 2018., Partial Amendment]

Ministry of Environment (Household Sewerage Division) , 044-201-7024

CHAPTER I GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1 (Purpose)The purpose of this Act is to plan sustainable use of water resources and to enhance people's quality of life by utilizing water resources efficiently through promoting water reuse and by decreasing any influence compromising water quality.

Article 2 (Definitions)The terms used in this Act shall be as follows:  <Amended by Act No. 11908, Jul. 16, 2013; Act No. 13879, Jan. 27, 2016; Act No. 14532, Jan. 17, 2017>

1. The term "water reuse" means using water reuse facilities to treat rainwater, unclean water, treated sewage, treated wastewater, or thermal effluents from power plants, and using such treated water (hereinafter referred to as "treated water") for purposes of daily life, industry, agriculture, landscaping, river maintenance, etc.;

2. The term "water reuse facility" means a rainwater use facility; gray water system, treated sewage and wastewater reuse facility; and thermal effluent reuse facility;

3. The term "rainwater reuse facility" means a facility to treat catchment rainwater from the roofs of buildings, etc., to use such rainwater;

4. The term "gray water system" means a facility to individually or regionally treat for reuse of unclean water from an individual facility, or from an area created in a development project, etc., without discharging such unclean water to a public sewerage system;

5. The term "treated sewage" means water treated in a public sewage treatment plant under subparagraph 9 of Article 2 of the Sewerage Act;

6. The term "treated wastewater" means water treated in a public wastewater treatment facility under subparagraph 17 of Article 2 of the Water Environment Conservation Act;

6-2. The term "thermal effluents from power plants" means drain-water discharged in an elevated temperature condition, which derives from collected seawater used as a coolant that absorbs waste heat released during power generation at power plants (excluding nuclear power plants);

7. The term "treated sewage and wastewater reuse facility" means a treatment facility enabling reuse of treated sewage or treated wastewater, and its appurtenant facilities and supply pipelines;

7-2. The term "thermal effluent reuse facility" means a treatment facility enabling reuse of thermal effluents from a power plant and its appurtenant facilities and supply pipelines;

8. The term "treated sewage and wastewater reuse business" means the business (excluding cases in which a public sewerage management authority supplies secondary treated sewage and wastewater pursuant to Article 10) of treating treated sewage or treated wastewater in a treated sewage and wastewater reuse facility to reuse such treated sewage or treated wastewater, and of supplying such treated water (hereinafter referred to as "secondary treated sewage and wastewater");

9. The term "thermal effluent reuse business" means the business of treating thermal effluents from a power plant in a thermal effluent reuse facility to reuse such treated thermal effluents, and of supplying such treated water (hereinafter referred to as "secondary treated thermal effluents");

10. The term "business of designing and constructing treated sewage and wastewater reuse facilities, etc." means the business of designing and constructing treated sewage and wastewater reuse facilities, and thermal effluent reuse facilities.

Article 3 (Responsibilities of State, Local Governments, etc.)(1) The State shall formulate a plan to promote water reuse and formulate appropriate policies and endeavor to provide technical and financial support required to local governments and persons who install and operate a water reuse facility.

(2) Local governments shall formulate and implement policies to promote water reuse in their jurisdictions and endeavor installing, managing, etc., relevant facilities.

(3) Citizens shall cooperate in the policies related to water reuse promoted by the State and local governments.

Article 4 (Relationship with Other Acts)Unless otherwise specifically provided for by other Acts, this Act shall govern water reuse.