The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 No. 3538

SCHEDULE 3 Descriptions: exempt waste operations and other operations to which section 33(1)(a) of the 1990 Act does not apply

PART 1 Exempt waste operations: descriptions

Railway ballast

34.  Keeping or depositing on land spent ballast at the place where it is produced if—

(a) the land is operational land of a railway, a light railway or a tramway;

(b) the total amount kept or deposited at that place does not exceed 10 tonnes for each metre of track from which the ballast derives; and

(c) the waste kept or deposited is produced by the establishment or undertaking carrying on the operation.