§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will make a statement on United Kingdom compliance with the EC directive on nitrogen dioxide.
§ Mr. BaldryThe United Kingdom has complied in full with the EC directive on nitrogen dioxide. Except for a purely technical breach at the west London monitoring site in London in 1989, of which the Commission was informed as required by the directive, no breach of the directive's air quality limit values has occurred.
§ Ms. WalleyTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will give details of the criteria used in choosing site locations for nitrogen dioxide monitoring stations.
§ Mr. BaldryFor the purposes of monitoring compliance with EC directive 85/203/EEC, sites have been chosen in accordance with the criteria set out in annex III of the directive. In summary, sites must include examples of areas predominately affected by motor pollution and of areas where discharges from fixed sources also make a significant contribution to pollution. They should be chosen as far as possible from sites where the risk of public exposure is greatest.
Company Location Offence Pollution caused George M. Watson(construction)Ltd. Denholme, Bradford Operation of mineral crushing and screening plant without registration No Pollution Cotswold Stone Quarries Swellwold Quarry, Stow on the Wold Operation of Mineral works without registration No Pollution North West Aggregates Ltd. Huyton, Merseyside Operation of road stone coating plant without registration No Pollution Hickson and Welch Castleford, Yorkshire Operation of a chemical process without registration No Pollution Atomic Energy Authority Harwell, Oxon Breach of conditions of authorisation in relation to discharge of radioactive tritium gas No material pollution: no hazard to environment or health British Nuclear Fuels plc Springfields, Lancs Breach of conditions of authorisation in relation to disposal of low level solid radioactive waste No material pollution: no hazard to environment or health