The Industrial Pollution Control (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Chapter 6 Other Industries

Section 6.1 Paper and pulp manufacturing processes

Part A

(a)

The making of paper pulp by a chemical method if the person concerned has the capacity at the location in question to produce more than 25,000 tonnes of paper pulp in any 12 month period.

(b)

Any process associated with making paper pulp or paper (including processes connected with the recycling of paper such as de-inking) if the process may result in the release into water of any substance described in Schedule 5 in a quantity which in any 12 month period exceeds the background quantity by more than the amount specified in relation to the description of the substance in column 2 of Schedule 5.

In this paragraph, “paper pulp” includes pulp made from wood, grass, straw and similar materials and references to the making of paper are to the making of any product using paper pulp.

Part B Nil

Part C Nil

Section 6.2 Di-isocyanate processes

Part A

(a) Any process for the manufacture of any di-isocyanate or a partly polymerised di-isocyanate.

(b) Any manufacturing process involving the use of toluene di-isocyanate or partly polymerised toluene di-isocyanate if—

(i) 1 tonne or more of toluene di-isocyanate monomer is likely to be used in any 12 month period; and

(ii) the process may result in a release into the air which contains toluene di-isocyanate.

(c) The flame bonding and hot wire cutting of polyurethane foams or polyurethane elastomers where such bonding and cutting is related to any other Part A process.

Part B

(a) Any process not falling within any other description in this Schedule where the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use in any 12 month period of 5 tonnes or more of any di-isocyanate or of any partly polymerised di-isocyanate or, in aggregate, of both.

(b) Any process not falling within any other description in this Schedule involving the use of toluene di-isocyanate or partly polymerised toluene di-isocyanate if—

(i) less than 1 tonne of toluene di-isocyanate monomer is likely to be used in any 12 month period; and

(ii) the process may result in a release into the air which contains toluene di-isocyanate.

(c) The flame bonding and hot wire cutting of polyurethane foams or polyurethane elastomers, except where these processes are related to any other Part A process.

Part C Nil

Section 6.3 Tar and bitumen processes

Part A

Any process not falling within any other description in this Schedule involving—

(a) the distillation of tar or bitumen in connection with any process of manufacture; or

(b) the heating of tar or bitumen for the manufacture of electrodes or carbon-based refractory materials, where the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use in any 12 month period of 5 tonnes or more of tar or of bitumen or, in aggregate, of both.

Part B

Any process not falling within Part A of this Section or within any other description in this Schedule involving—

(a) the heating, but not the distillation, of tar or bitumen in connection with any process of manufacture; or

(b) (unless the process is related to and carried on a part of a process falling within Part A of Section 1.4 of this Schedule) the oxidation of bitumen by blowing air through it, where the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use in any 12 month period of 5 tonnes or more of tar or of bitumen or, in aggregate, of both.

Part C Nil

In this Section the expressions “tar” and “bitumen” include pitch.

Section 6.4 Processes involving uranium

Part A

(a) The treatment of any ore, concentrate or material containing uranium, its compounds or alloys; or

(b) the manufacture of, and any process involving the use of uranium hexaflouride or any other volatile compound of uranium; or

(c) the mechanical processing or casting of uranium, its compounds or alloys.

Part B Nil

Part C Nil

Section 6.5 Coating processes and printing

Part A

(a) The application or removal of a coating material containing one or more tributyltin compounds or triphenyltin compounds, if carried out at a shipyard or boatyard where vessels of a length of 25 metres or more can be built or maintained or repaired.

(b) The treatment of textiles if the process may result in the release into water of any substance described in Schedule 5 in a quantity which in any 12 month period exceeds the background quantity by more than the amount specified in relation to the description of the substance in column 2 of Schedule 5.

Part B

Processes, not described elsewhere in the Schedule, other than for the repainting or respraying of or of parts of road vehicles, involving:—

(a) the repainting or respraying of or of parts of aircraft or railway vehicles; or

(b) the application to a substrate of, or the drying or curing after such applications of, printing ink or paint or any other coating material as, or in the course of, a manufacturing process;

where the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compounds and is likely to involve the use in any 12 month period of—

(i) 400 tonnes or more applied in solid form of any printing ink, paint or other coating material; or

(ii) 400 tonnes or more of any metal coatings which are sprayed on in molten form; or

(iii) 200 tonnes or more of organic solvents.

Part C

Processes, not described elsewhere in the Schedule, other than for the repainting or respraying of or of parts of road vehicles, involving:—

(a) the repainting or respraying of or of parts of aircraft or railway vehicles; or

(b) the application to a substrate of, or the drying or curing after such applications of, printing ink or paint or any other coating material as, or in the course of, a manufacturing process;

where the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compounds and is likely to involve the use in any 12 month period of—

(i) greater than 20 tonnes but less than 400 tonnes applied in solid form of any printing ink, paint or other coating material;

(ii) greater than 20 tonnes but less than 400 tonnes of any metal coatings which are sprayed on in molten form; or

(iii) greater than 25 tonnes but less than 200 tonnes of organic solvents in respect of any cold set web offset printing process or any sheet fed offset litho printing process, or in respect of any other process, greater than 5 tonnes but less than 200 tonnes of organic solvents.

Any process for the repainting or respraying of or of parts of road vehicles if the process may result in the release into the air of particulate matter or of any volatile organic compound and the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use of 1 tonne or more of organic solvents in any 12 month period.

In this section

• “aircraft” includes glider and missile;

• “coating material” includes paint, printing ink, varnish, lacquer, dye, any metal oxide coating, any adhesive coating, any elastomer coating, any metal or plastic coating and any other coating material;

The amount of organic solvents used in a process shall be calculated as—

(a) the total input of organic solvents into the process, including both solvents contained in coating materials and solvents used for cleaning or other purposes; less

(b) any organic solvents that are removed from the process for re-use or for recovery for re-use.

Section 6.6 The manufacture of dyestuffs, printing ink and coating materials

Part A

Any process for the manufacture of dyestuffs if the process involves the use of hexachlorobenzene.

Part B

Any process—

(a) for the manufacture or formulation of printing ink or any other coating material containing, or involving the use of, an organic solvent, where the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use of 200 tonnes or more of organic solvents in any 12 month period;

(b) for the manufacture of any powder for use as a coating material where there is the capacity to produce 400 tonnes or more of such powder in any 12 month period.

Part C

Any process—

(a) for the manufacture or formulation of printing ink or any other coating material containing, or involving the use of, an organic solvent, where the carrying on of the process by the person concerned at the location in question is likely to involve the use of 100 tonnes or more but less than 200 tonnes of organic solvents in any 12 month period;

(b) for the manufacture of any powder for use as a coating material where there is the capacity to produce 200 tonnes or more but less than 400 tonnes of such powder in any 12 month period.

In this section, “coating material” has the same meaning as in section 6.5 and the amount of organic solvents used in a process shall be calculated as—

(a) the total input of organic solvents into the process, including both solvents contained in coating materials and solvents used for cleaning or other purposes; less

(b) any organic solvents (not contained in coating materials) that are removed from the process for re-use or for recovery for re-use.

Section 6.7 Timber processes

Part A

The curing or chemical treatment as part of a manufacturing process of timber or of products wholly or mainly made of wood if any substances described in Schedule 5 is used.

Part B Nil

Part C

The manufacture of products wholly or mainly of wood at any works if the process involves the sawing, drilling, sanding, shaping, turning, planing, curing or chemical treatment of wood (“relevant processes”) and the throughput of the works in any 12 month period is likely to exceed—

(i) 10,000 cubic meters, in the case of works at which wood is sawed but at which wood is not subjected to any other relevant processes or is subjected only to relevant processes which are exempt processes; or

(ii) 1,000 cubic metres in any other case.

For the purposes of this paragraph—

• “relevant processes” other than sawing are “exempt processes” where, if no sawing were carried out at the works, the activities carried on would be treated as not falling within this Part of this Section by virtue of regulation 4(2);

• “throughput” shall be calculated by reference to the amount of wood which is subjected to any of the relevant processes, but where, at the same works, wood is subject to two or more relevant processes, no account shall be taken of the second or any subsequent process;

• “wood” includes any product consisting wholly or mainly of wood; and

• “works” includes a sawmill or any other premises on which relevant processes are carried out on wood.

Section 6.8 Processes involving rubber

Part A Nil

Part B

Processes for the curing of foam rubber products where hydrogen sulphide or other sulphur containing compounds may be released.

Part C

(a) The mixing, milling or blending of:—

(i) natural rubber; or

(ii) synthetic organic elastomers if carbon black is used.

(b) Any process which converts the product of a process falling within paragraph (a) into a finished product if related to a process falling within that paragraph.

Section 6.9 The treatment and processing of animal or vegetable matter

Part A

Any of the following processes, unless falling within a description in another Section of the Schedule or an exempt process, namely, the processing in any way whatsoever, storing or drying by the application of heat of any dead animal (or part thereof) or any vegetable matter if the process may result in the release into water of any substance described in Schedule 5 in a quantity which in any 12 month period exceeds the background quantity by more than the amount specified in relation to the description of the substance in column 2 of Schedule 5; but excluding any process for the treatment of effluent so as to permit its discharge into controlled waters or into a sewer unless the treatment process involves the drying of any material with a view to its use as an animal feedstuff.

Part B

Any process involving the hydrolysis of feathers where the process may result in the release into the air of hydrogen sulphide or other sulphur containing compounds.

Part C

(a)

Any process mentioned in Part A of this Section unless an exempt process or a process described in Part B of this Section—

(i)

where the process has the characteristics described in regulation 4(1)(b); but

(ii)

may release into the air a substance described in Schedule 4 or any offensive smell noticeable outside the premises on which the process is carried on.

(b)

breeding maggots in any case where 5 kg or more of animal or of vegetable matter or, in aggregate, of both are introduced into the process in any week.

In this Section—

• “animal” includes a bird or a fish; and

• “exempt process” means—

  (i)

  any process carried on on a farm or agricultural holding other than the manufacture of goods for sale;

  (ii)

  the manufacture or preparation of food or drink for human consumption but excluding—

  (a)

  the extraction, distillation or purification of animal or vegetable oil or fat otherwise than as a process incidental to the cooking of food for human consumption;

  (b)

  any process involving the use of green offal or the boiling of blood except the cooking of food (other than tripe) for human consumption;

  (c)

  the cooking of tripe for human consumption elsewhere than on premises on which it is to be consumed;

  (iii)

  the fleshing, cleaning and drying of pelts of fur-bearing mammals;

  (iv)

  any process carried on in connection with the operation of a knacker’s yard as defined in regulation 2(1) of the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993(1);

  (v)

  any process for the manufacture of soap not falling within a description in Part A or B of Section 4.2 of this Schedule;

  (vi)

  the storage of vegetable matter otherwise than as part of any prescribed process;

  (vii)

  the cleaning of shellfish shells;

  (viii)

  the manufacture of starch;

  (ix)

  the processing of animal or vegetable matter at premises for feeding a recognised pack of hounds registered under regulation 9 of the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993;

  (x)

  the salting of hides or skins, unless related to any other prescribed process;

  (xi)

  any process for composting animal or vegetable matter or a combination of both, except where that process is carried on for the purposes of cultivating mushrooms;

  (xii)

  any process for cleaning, and any related process for drying or dressing, seeds, bulbs, corms or tubers;

  (xiii)

  the drying of grain or pulses; or

  (xiv)

  any process for the production of cotton yarn from raw cotton or for the conversion of cotton yarn into cloth;

• “food” includes drink, articles and substances of no nutritional value which are used for human consumption, and articles and substances used as ingredients in the preparation of food; and

• “green offal” means the stomach and intestines of any animal, other than poultry or fish, and their contents.

(1)

S.R. 1993 No. 192