The Environment Agency is planning to draft a bill that would oblige polluters to remove toxic chemicals and heavy metals from polluted soil, according to agency sources.
The proposed measure would be focused on cleaning soil at former factory sites, which have increasingly been converted for residential and commercial use, the sources said.
The agency hopes to submit the bill to an ordinary Diet session in 2002 after working out details of financing and methods of implementing its measures, they said.
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