Roscosmos to monitor Baikonur environmental safety
MOSCOW. Aug 3 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian government has compelled the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) to take care of the environmental conditions at the Baikonur Space Center leased from Kazakhstan.
"[Roscosmos] is obliged to comply with Russia's international commitments of environmental safety, management and conservation of the Baikonur Space Center leased by the Russian Federation in dealing with facilities and land plots," says a government resolution published in the legal database on Friday.
Roscosmos is also obliged to control the observation of environmental management and protection norms and to determine the procedure for setting maximal permissible limits on discharges of pollutants and disposal of industrial and consumer waste.