Guide to Procedures for Factory Installation

Purpose of This Website and How To Use.

When making new business development or intend to establish into Tochigi Prefecture, various procedures are required in accordance with the rows and regulations for the use of the land, etc., and it is one of the issues to streamline those procedures for the promotion of industrial establishment.
In this website, those procedures related with Tochigi Prefecture and its municipalities are comprehensively introduced. It would be grateful if this site can be a help when you are going to set up factories, etc.

For further details of the procedures, please contact directly to the specific responsible section in Tochigi Prefecture.

Please note that this website contains major required procedures for factory installations involved with the prefectural or municipal governments. Those procedures needed to be submitted directly to the state government or tax related procedures are not listed.

Last updated: December 6, 2013

Please feel free to ask us when you have a comments or inquiry.

How To Use

The recommended procedures are as follows.
1.To find out the laws and regulations to be subjected from the list of procedures,.
2.To download an application forms.
3.To fill-in required contents on the application form downloaded.
4.To mail your questions or a draft of your application.

List of Procedures

Laws and Regulations
・ National Land Use Planning Act	○
・ Advance Guidelines Concerning Land Use	○
・ Advance Guidelines Concerning Construction of Large Sized Buildings		○
・ Fire Service Act		○	○		○
・ Environmental Impact Assessments Act	○	○	○	○
・ Forest Act ( Submission of Acquisition・ Submission of Felling・ Permission of Development Acts）	○
・ Advanced Guidelines for Antipollution of Newly Located Operations	○	○
・ Air Pollution Control Act			○
・ Water Pollution Control Act			○
・ Soil　Pollution Control Act		○	○
・ Act on Special Measures Concerning Dioxins			○
・ Tochigi Prefecture Act Concerning Living Environment Preservations　(Specific Facilities)			○
・ Tochigi Prefecture Act Concerning Living Environment Preservations　(Specific Pump-up Facilities)			○
・ Tochigi Prefecture Guidelines Concerning Instructions of Ground Water Facilities			○
・ Noise Regulation Act	○	○	○
・ Vibration Regulation Act	○	○	○
・ Septic Tanks Act		○
・ Natural Park Act	○	○
・ Tochigi Prefectural Natural Park Act	○	○
・ Act Concerning Natural Environment Preservation and Greening	○	○
・ Act Concerning Game Reservation and Improvement of Hunting	○	○
・ Tochigi Prefecture Act Concerning Prevention of Soil Pollutions and Disasters by Landfill, etc. of Sand, etc.	○
・ Act Concerning Waste Management and Public Cleaning		○	○
・ Food Sanitation Act, Tochigi Prefecture Food Sanitation Act				○
・ Waterworks Act		○
・ Tochigi Prefecture Small-sized Waterworks Act		○
・ Pharmaceutical Affairs Act		○	○	○
・ Poisonous and Deleterious Substances Control Act		○	○	○
・ Factory Location Act	○	○	○
・ High Pressure Gas Safety Act			○	○
・ Agricultural Land Act	○
・ Pharmaceutical Affairs Act, Veterinary Medicine, etc. Regulations		○	○	○
・ Act Concerning Safety Assurance and Quality Improvement of Feeds		○	○	○
・ Act Concerning Dairy and Beef Cattle Production Promotion		○	○	○
・ Road Act	○
・ River Act	○	○
・ Act Concerning Control etc. of Erosion Control Designated Areas(Erosion Control Act)	○	○
・ Act Concerning Prevention of Disasters Caused by Steep Slope Collapse	○	○
・ Landslide etc. Prevention Act	○	○
・ Sediment Disasters Prevention Act	○
・ City Planning Act	○	○
・ City Planning Act, Article 53.	○	○
・ Land Readjustment Act, Article 76.	○	○
・ Tochigi Prefecture Landscape Act	○	○
・ Tochigi Prefecture　Outdoor Advertising Object Act		○			○
・ Sewage Act		○	○
・ Building Standards Act		○	○
・ Cultural Properties Protection Act	○	○
・ Road Traffic Act					○
・ Outside Statutory Public Property Control Act, etc.	○