Hazardous Chemical Transport Business Permit (incl. Vehicle Installation Inspection and Manager Appointment)

Procedure

Procedure

1. 01

   Confirm whether a permit is required: Check whether the substance is an acute human toxic, chronic human toxic, ecotoxic or accident precaution substance and whether more than 1 ton is transported at a time. Substances built into machinery, reagents for testing, research or inspection, and handling and transport within a defined area such as a port or station yard are exempt under Article 29.

2. 02

   Check the transport business permit and disqualification grounds: Since a copy of the freight vehicle transport business permit or construction machinery rental registration certificate goes into the application, confirm the transport business permit first. Also check that the representative and corporate officers do not fall under Article 30 disqualification grounds, such as undischarged bankruptcy or less than 2 years since a permit revocation.

3. 03

   Prepare facilities and equipment: Under Annex 6 of the Enforcement Rule, provide a parking lot large enough for the transport vehicles, a vehicle washing facility with a sump to collect wastewater, a changing room, personal protective equipment for every worker, fire extinguishing equipment and similar items. The technical personnel standard in the same Annex does not apply to the transport business.

4. 04

   Vehicle installation inspection: Transport vehicles are handling facilities, so they undergo installation inspection by an inspection body under Article 22 of the Enforcement Rule, such as the Korea Environment Corporation, to obtain an inspection report with a pass decision. Vehicles without a pass decision cannot be used for transport, and after the permit, periodic inspections follow at intervals of up to 3 years set by public notice.

5. 05

   Submit the permit application: Attach the annual expected handling quantity data, a handling facility specification listing each vehicle's capacity, the equipment specification, the installation inspection report and a copy of the transport business permit to the application in Form No. 43 and file it with the River Basin (Regional) Environmental Office for the place of business. The processing period is 15 days, and any request for supplementation is answered within the given period.

6. 06

   Manager appointment and later changes: Before starting business, appoint one hazardous chemical management officer and one inspector per 20 transport vehicles (the inspector may be omitted for 20 vehicles or fewer), and report the appointment using Form No. 49. If transport facility capacity increases by a cumulative 50% or more after the permit, a change permit is required; smaller fleet increases or a change of vehicle type require a change report.

Filing route

Filing route

Deadlines & processing notes

Deadlines & processing notes

Basic documents

Basic documents

Transporting without a change permit after fleet additions have raised transport facility capacity by a cumulative 50% or more over the permitted level is subject to penalties under Article 61 of the Act, so calculate the cumulative increase since the permit before adding vehicles and determine whether a change permit or a change report applies.