§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what draft guidance notes have been issued for consultation, pursuant to the Environmental Protection Act 1990 to date this year; and what further notes are expected to be issued this year.
§ Mr. BaldryConsultation has already been undertaken in respect of all 50 process guidance notes for local authority air pollution control under part I of the Act which were published in February and July 1991. The following 27 such guidance notes have also been issued in draft for consultation:
- PG1/10 — waste derived fuel combustion processes less than 3MW.
- PG6/10 — coating manufacturing.
- PG6/11 — manufacture of printing ink.
- PG6/16 — printworks.
- PG6/17 — printing of flexible packaging.
- PG6/18 — paper coating.
- PG6/19 — fish meal and fish oil.
- PG6/20 — paint application in vehicle manufacturing.
- PG6/21 — hide and skin processes.
- PG6/22 — leather finishing.
- PG6/23 — coating of metal and plastic.
- PG6/24 — pet food manufacturing.
- PG6/25 — vegetable oil extraction and fat and oil refining.
- PG6/26 — animal feed compounding.
- PG6/27 — vegetable matter drying.
- PG6/28 — rubber processes.
- PG6/29 — di-isocyanate processes.
- PG6/30 — composting.
- PG6/31 — powder coating (including sheradizing).
- PG6/32 — adhesive coating.
- PG6/33 — wood coating.
- PG6/34 — respraying of road vehicles.
- PG6/35 — metal and other thermal spraying processes.
- PG6/36 — tobacco processing.
- PG6/37 — knackers yards.
- PG6/38 — blood processing.
- PG6/39 — animal by-product dealers.
A further draft note on reheat and heat treatment furnaces (PG1/11) is expected to be issued this year.
Consultation was also undertaken on the six guidance notes published during 1991 by the chief inspector of Her Majesty's inspectorate of pollution. The following draft guidance notes have so far been issued by him for consultation:
- IPR1/2 — gas turbines.
- IPR1/3 — compression ignition engines 50MW(th) and over.
- IPR1/4 — waste oil burners 3MW(th) and over.
- IPR1/5 — refuse derived fuel burners.
- IPR1/6 — tyre burners.
- IPR1/7 — poultry litter burners.
- IPR1/8 — straw and wood burners.
- IPR1/9 — carbonisation and associated processes—coke ovens.
- IPR1/10 — carbonisation processes—smokeless fuel plants.
- IPR1/11 — gasification of solid and liquid feedstocks.
- IPR1/12 — refining of natural gas.
- IPR1/13 — refining of natural gas at liquefied natural gas sites.
- IPR1/14 — the odorising of natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas.
574 - IPR1/15 — crude oil refineries.
- IPR1/16 — on-shore oil production.
- IPR3/1 — cement manufacture and associated processes.
- IPR3/2 — lime manufacture and associated processes.
- IPR3/3 — processes involving asbestos.
- IPR3/4 — glass and non-asbestos mineral fibres.
- IPR3/5 — glass frit and enamel frit.
- IPR3/6 — ceramic processes.
- IPR5/1 — merchant and in-house chemical waste incineration.
- IPR5/2 — clinical waste incineration.
- IPR5/3 — municipal waste incineration.
- IPR5/4 — animal carcase incineration.
- IPR5/5 — burning out of metal containers.
- IPR5/6 — making solid fuel from waste.
- IPR5/7 — cleaning and regeneration of activated carbon.
- IPR5/8 — recovery of organic solvents by distillation.
- IPR5/9 — regeneration of ion exchange resins.
- IPR5/10 — recovery of waste oil by distillation.
- IPR5/11 — sewage sludge incineration.
The chief inspector is expected to issue further draft guidance notes for consultation this year as follows:
- IPR4/1 — petrochemical.
- IPR4/2 — production and use of amines, nitriles, isocyanates and pyridines.
- IPR4/3 — production or use of aldehydes acids, anhydrides and phenols.
- IPR4/4 — production or use of organic sulphur compounds; production, use or recovery of carbon disulphide.
- IPR4/5 — batch manufacture of organic chemicals in multipurpose plant.
- IPR4/6 — production and polymerisation of organic monomers.
- IPR4/7 — manufacture of organo-metallic compounds.
- IPR4/8 — pesticide processes.
- IPR4/9 — pharmaceutical processes.