Article​​​​​​​ 137. Procedure for approving water protection zones and sanitary protection zones

Water protection zones and sanitary protection zones are approved:

for channels, irrigation, and collector-drainage networks and other water management objects, and drinking and domestic water supply systems of district significance — by the decisions of the district hokim;

for rivers, streams that do not dry up, reservoirs and other water basins, channels, irrigation, and collector-drainage networks, drinking and domestic water supply systems, and other water management objects of provincial (inter-district) significance — by the decisions of the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Karakalpakstan, the hokims of the provinces, and the hokim of the city of Tashkent;

for water objects of transboundary, inter-regional, and special importance, as well as sources of mineral waters and other therapeutic resorts and sanatoriums of republican significance — by the relevant decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Water protection zones and sanitary protection zones that include coastal and sanitary-protective areas consisting of lands of the category of non-irrigated agricultural lands are approved by the decisions of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and those that include coastal and sanitary-protective areas consisting of lands of the category of irrigated agricultural lands are approved by the decisions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

The boundaries (territories) of the water protection zones and sanitary protection zones, approved in the prescribed manner, are marked on the ground (in nature) with warning signs.

The project organization prepares a passport of the territory of the water protection zones and sanitary protection zones of each water object in the form prescribed by the legislation.

The passport of the territory of the water protection zone or sanitary protection zone indicates the name of the water object, the established zones (areas), and the regime of land use in these zones.

A cartographic material depicting the boundaries (territories) of the established zones (areas) is attached to the passport.

The passport is signed by the head of the local executive body and is sent to the state control bodies and other interested bodies to control compliance with the economic activity regime.