The Industrial Pollution Control (Applications, Appeals and Registers) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Applications for an authorisation

3.—(1) An application to the enforcing authority for an authorisation under Article 6(2) of the Order shall be in writing and, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), shall contain the following information—

(a) the name and address of the applicant, his telephone number, and if different any address to which correspondence relating to the application should be sent and, if the applicant is a body corporate, the address of its registered or principal office, and, if that body corporate is a subsidiary of a holding company (within the meaning of Article 4 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(1)), the name of the ultimate holding company and the address of its registered or principal office;

(b) in a case where the prescribed process will not be carried on by means of mobile plant—

(i) the name of the district council in whose area the prescribed process will be carried on;

(ii) the address of the premises where the process will be carried on;

(iii) a map or plan showing the location of those premises; and

(iv) if only part of those premises will be used for carrying on the process, a plan or other means of identifying that part;

(c) in a case where the prescribed process will be carried on by means of mobile plant—

(i) the name of the district council in whose area the applicant has his principal place of business; and

(ii) the address of that place of business;

(d) a description of the prescribed process;

(e) a list of prescribed substances (and any other substances which might cause harm if released into any environmental medium) which will be used in connection with, or which will result from, the carrying on of that process;

(f) a description of the techniques to be used for preventing the release into any environmental medium of such substances, for reducing the release of such substances to a minimum and for rendering harmless any such substances which are released;

(g) details of any proposed release of such substances into any environmental medium and an assessment of the environmental consequences;

(h) proposals for monitoring any release of such substances, the environmental consequences of any such release and the use of any techniques described in accordance with sub-paragraph (f);

(i) the matters on which the applicant relies to establish that the objectives mentioned in Article 7(2) of the Order (including the objective referred to in Article 7(7)) will be achieved and that he will be able to comply with the general condition implied by Article 7(4); and

(j) any additional information which he wishes the enforcing authority to take into account in considering his application.

(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to an application to the chief inspector for an authorisation in respect of a prescribed process designated for restricted central control or an application to a district council for an authorisation in respect of a prescribed process designated for local control (other than that mentioned in paragraph (3)) as if the words in brackets in sub-paragraph (i) were omitted and references to the release of substances into any environmental medium were references to the release of substances into the air.

(3) Paragraph (1) shall apply in relation to an application to a district council for an authorisation to carry on any prescribed process involving only the burning of waste oil in an appliance with a net rated thermal input of less than 0.4 megawatts as if the following sub-paragraphs were substituted for sub-paragraphs (d) to (i)—

“(d) the name and number (if any) of the appliance and the name of its manufacturer;

(e) the net rated thermal input of the appliance and whether or not it is constructed or adapted so as to comply with the specification for fixed flued fan-assisted heaters in part 2 of the specification for oil-burning air heaters published by the British Standards Institution and numbered BS 4256 1972;

(f) details of the type of fuel to be used and its source;

(g) details of the height and location and any chimney through which waste gases produced by the appliance would be carried away;

(h) details of the efflux velocity of the waste gases leaving such a chimney produced by the appliance in normal operation;

(i) details of the fuel storage tanks of the appliance; and”.

(4) In this regulation—

“net rated thermal input” means the rate at which fuel can be burned at the maximum continuous rating of the appliance multiplied by the net calorific value of the fuel and expressed as megawatts thermal; and

“waste oil” means any mineral based lubricating oil which—

(a)

has become unfit for the use for which it was intended and, in particular, used combustion engine oil, gearbox oil, mineral lubricating oil, oil for turbines and hydraulic oil; and

(b)

is generated only as a result of activities carried out by the applicant on the premises where the process is carried on.

(1)

S.I. 1986/1032 (N.I. 6); Art. 4 was substituted by the provisions in Art. 62 of S.I. 1990/1504 (N.I. 10)