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China’s Decentralized Environmental Regulatory Program and the 11th Five-Year Plan Marcia E. Mulkey Director, National Enforcement Training Institute U.S. Environmental Protection Agency China’s Environmental Problems Economic Growth v. Environmental Protection Energy Consumption Air Pollution Water Pollution China’s Environmental Regulatory Regime The National People’s Congressional Committee on Natural Resources and Environmental Protection State Environmental Protection Administration (“SEPA”) Commissions on Environmental Protection Environmental Protection Bureaus Water Law’s China’s Decentralized Approach Problems: Erratic Environmental Enforcement Institutional Capacity Funding Accountability/Oversight Benefits: Flexibility Responsive to Local Concerns The 11th Five-Year Plan: Provisions on Governmental Structure Elevate SEPA to Cabinet Level Agency Streamline EPB’s Provide SEPA with Multi-Sector Oversight Capacity Re-evaluate Budgetary Allocations Re-structure Enforcement Penalties Lessons from the Federalism Debate in U.S. Environmental Protection Establishing a National Floor Economies of Scale Cooperative Federalism Laboratories of Creativity Recommendations for Strengthening China’s Institutional Capacity Expand SEPA’s Role Budget Authority Standard Setting Science and Technology Capacity Shared Implementation Reduce EPB’s Role Shift to Provincial Level Increased National Oversight Additional Reading Xiayong Ma Leonard Ortolano, Environmental Regulation in China: Institutions, Enforcement and Compliance, (Rowman Littlefield 2000). Marilyn Beach, Local Environmental Management in China, China Environmental Series, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Issue 4, 2001 Elizabeth Economy, The River Runs Black, (Cornell Press 2004) Ongley Wang, Trans-jurisdictional Water Pollution Management In China: The Legal and Institutional Framework, Water International, Sept. 2004 Kenneth Liberthal, China’s Governing Syste