The Urban Waste Water Treatment (England and Wales) Regulations 1994

Discharges of treated urban waste water E+W

6.—(1) Discharges from urban waste water treatment plants described in paragraph (1) or (2) of regulation 5, or from any such plant which provides treatment in accordance with paragraph (5) of that regulation, (including any such plants which are provided other than by sewerage undertakers) shall satisfy the relevant requirements of Part I of Schedule 3.

(2) It shall be the [F1 duty of the Environment Agency and of the Natural Resources Body for Wales, in exercising their] functions under [F2 the Environmental Permitting Regulations], to secure—

(a) with respect to any such discharge as is described in paragraph (1) above, that the requirements of that paragraph are satisfied;

(b) with respect to any discharge described in paragraph (5) or (7) of regulation 5 (including any such discharge from an urban waste water treatment plant which is provided other than by a sewerage undertaker), that the requirements of the said paragraph (5) or, as the case may be, the said paragraph (7) are satisfied;

(c) with respect to any discharge from a collecting system described in regulation 4 or an urban waste water treatment plant described in regulation 5, the limitation of pollution of receiving waters due to storm water overflows;

(d) with respect to the discharge of sludge—

(i) that the discharge of sludge to surface waters is phased out by 31st December 1998; and

(ii) that the total amount of toxic, persistent or bioaccumulable materials in the sludge which may be discharged to surface waters pursuant to [F3 environmental permits under the Environmental Permitting Regulations is controlled by such permits] and progressively reduced during the period ending on that date.

(3) [F4 The Environment Agency or, as the case may be, the Natural Resources Body for Wales] shall at regular intervals review and, if necessary for the purpose of complying with this regulation, modify or revoke consents granted under the said Chapter II.

F5 (4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(5) All lakes and ponds shall be treated as controlled waters for the purposes of [F6 the Environmental Permitting Regulations insofar as they relate] to the discharge of waste water from urban waste water treatment plants.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 6(2) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 42(2) (with Sch. 7)

F2 Words in reg. 6(2) substituted (6.4.2010 immediately after S.I. 2009/3381 comes into force) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), reg. 1(1), Sch. 26 Pt. 2 para. 10(3)(a) (with reg. 1(2))

F3 Words in reg. 6(2)(d)(ii) substituted (6.4.2010 immediately after S.I. 2009/3381 comes into force) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), reg. 1(1), Sch. 26 Pt. 2 para. 10(3)(b) (with reg. 1(2))

F4 Words in reg. 6(3) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/755), art. 1(2), Sch. 4 para. 42(3) (with Sch. 7)

F5 Reg. 6(4) omitted (6.4.2010 immediately after S.I. 2009/3381 comes into force) by virtue of The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), reg. 1(1), Sch. 26 Pt. 2 para. 10(3)(c) (with reg. 1(2))

F6 Words in reg. 6(5) substituted (6.4.2010 immediately after S.I. 2009/3381 comes into force) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/675), reg. 1(1), Sch. 26 Pt. 2 para. 10(3)(d) (with reg. 1(2))