WORKING PLAN ON AIR POLLUTION APPROVED

The Cabinet meeting on Wednesday approved a measures plan on reducing air pollution in Ulaanbaatar city.

According to the plan, zones are to be set up where the air will be improved, an electricity transmission network in ger areas will be widened, a research will be run seeking ways of improving its capacity, electricity prices will decrease 50 percent for those meeting criteria, a construction will start of the fifth and sixth power stations this year so that to put into use their first units in 2013. Other actionare to connect low pressure furnaces to partial heating system, to create a complex of semicoking fuel, to create stoves that work on gas, to issue government bonds or grant soft loans in order to get money needed. Within the parliamentary resolution, the air pollution will be reduced by up to 50 percent in 2011-2012, by 80 percent in 2012-2013, reaching standards in 2013-2014.

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