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Prohibition on unauthorised or harmful depositing, treatment or disposal of waste
52.Referral of special site decisions to the Planning Appeals Commission
53.Duty of enforcing authority to require remediation of contaminated land, etc.
54.Determination of the appropriate person to bear responsibility for remediation
56.Restrictions and prohibitions on serving remediation notices
56A.Restrictions on liability relating to the pollution of waterways and underground strata
57.Liability in respect of contaminating substances which escape to other land
60.Powers of the enforcing authority to carry out remediation
61.Recovery of, and security for, the cost of remediation by the enforcing authority
64.Exclusion from registers of information affecting national security
65.Exclusion from registers of certain confidential information
66.Reports by the Department on the state of contaminated land
69.Supplementary provisions with respect to guidance by the Department
SCHEDULES
1.Production or consumption residues not otherwise specified below.
4.Materials spilled, lost or having undergone other mishap, including any materials, equipment,
5.Materials contaminated or soiled as a result of planned actions (e.g. residues from cleaning operations,
6.Unusable parts (e.g. reject batteries, exhausted catalysts,
7.Substances which no longer perform satisfactorily (e.g. contaminated acids, contaminated solvents, exhausted tempering salts,
8.Residues of industrial processes (e.g. slags, still bottoms,
9.Residues from pollution abatement processes (e.g. scrubber sludges, baghouse dusts, spent filters,
10.Machining or finishing residues (e.g. lathe turnings, mill scales,
11.Residues from raw materials extraction and processing (e.g. mining residues, oil field slops,
13.Any materials, substances or products whose use has been banned by law.
14.Products for which the holder has no further use (e.g. agricultural, household, office, commercial and
15.Contaminated materials, substances or products resulting from remedial action with respect to land.
16.Any materials, substances or products which are not contained in the above categories.
APPEALS AND DECISIONS REFERRED TO THE PLANNING APPEALS COMMISSION
OBJECTIVES FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE WASTE STRATEGY
1.Ensuring that waste is recovered or disposed of without endangering human health and without using
2.Establishing an integrated and adequate network of waste disposal installations, taking account of the best
3.Ensuring that the network referred to in paragraph 2 enables—
4.Encouraging the prevention or reduction of waste production and its harmfulness, in particular by—
SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO POWERS OF ENTRY
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