토양의 이동에 대한 합리적 관리제도 마련 연구 = A Study on Development of Management System on Soil Moving

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This is a policy-focused study of the management system on soil moving. In this report, we analyzed current state of domestic and foreign management and suggested three alternatives for management of soil moving in 1) self-regulation, 2) obligatory regulation, 3) phase-in according to types of regulation. 1) Self-regulation We suggested self-regulating system by the volition of owners of receiving site. This system is that they carry out soil contamination investigation for receiving site and soil before receiving it and identify that it was uncontaminated. If they performed the investigation process, they may be exempted from obligation for soil remediation when soil contamination in the site identified at a later date. The soil contamination investigation must be conducted by authorized investigation institute and prepared guideline for it. We proposed that the acceptable standards for substances in receiving soil are (1) lower than 70 % and 40 % of soil remediation standards for heavy metals/fluoride and the others, respectively, (2) lower than 80 % of soil remediation standards for all substances, (3) values which suitably developed for free use of soil in Korea. 2) Obligatory regulation We also suggested obligatory regulating system under the Soil Environment Conservation Act. When residual soil is moved from a site to another site, the project operators have to be permitted for soil moving by accredited soil management organization if destination is accurate. If not, they have to be issued a soil moving permit by Soil Management Complex and residual soil is moved to the complex temporarily. This is a measure expanding the function of Soil Management Complex under the Soil Environment Conservation Act. We made suggestions for regulation targets, acceptable standards and remediation responsibility. The regulation targets for soil moving are the large scale projects subjected to Environment Impact Assessment in case of regulating soil moving by the project scale. If the soil moving is regulated by transport load, the targets are (1) actions applied to notification duty for change of land shape and quality by the National Land Planning and Utilization Act, (2) soils more than 1000 by standard of small scale private corporation for registration in TOCYCLE, (3) soils more than 250 by standard of object of permission in Belgium. Also, we proposed that the acceptable standards for substances in receiving soil are the same as that for self-regulation except one of alternatives. The supplement is that the soils may be accepted to the receiving site if contamination level of the site is lower than the receiving soil through comparison. In this regulation system, when soil contamination in the site identified at a later date, the obligation for soil remediation is preferentially imposed on the accredited soil management organization or the Soil Management Complex. However, an executive must be make a close investigation in the site whether it is certain or not. 3) Phase-in We analyzed strengths and weaknesses for self-regulation and obligatory regulation and suggested phase regulation in over several years as a compromise proposal. First of all, the self-regulation system is enforced for a certain period, and then the obligatory regulation system is imposed when institutional arrangements are prepared.