pollution prevention&control
Norfolk Local Authority
Newsletter
April 2015
Contents:
Disposal of waste oil Crematoria: update for abatement Industrial processes that require a
permit 
Crematoria: update for abatement
Disposal of waste oil
Every operator that produces waste oil has
a duty of care concerning its disposal. If your
business produces more waste oil than you can
burn in your waste oil burner, and hence you
have surplus requiring disposal, you have a
legal obligation to ensure this controlled waste
is removed from site by a waste carrier that has
been licensed by the Environment Agency. No
waste should leave site by any other method.
In order to ensure your waste oil is being
disposed of legally, it is your duty to check a
waste carrier’s license before you allow any
waste to be removed from your premises.
Failure in your duty of care is an offence under
Section 34, Environmental Protection Act 1990
and hence you can be prosecuted for such
action.
If you do have surplus waste oil to
requirements, your regulator will probably ask
you to provide waste carrier receipts to prove
the oil has been disposed of responsibly. These
may be requested when you send in your log
books to the regulator at the end of the year.
Not to be overlooked, waste oil is a commodity
and hence most licensed waste oil carriers will
pay you to remove your waste oil.
In 2008 & 2010 Defra issued a Direction to all Local
Authorities regulating Crematoria to ensure that the UK
meets its obligation regarding the reduction of mercury
into the North Sea. CAMEO (Crematoria Abatement of
Mercury Emissions Organisation) sets out one method*
of compliance for crematoria operators to achieve 50%
Abatement of mercury emissions to meet the requirements
of Process Guidance Note 5/2 (12)
October 2010
Pre trade process began,
crematoria invited to participate in
14/15 process, CAMEO
registrations
November 2014
Tradable Mercury Abated
Crematoria values confirmed,
process details issued
December 2014
Enquiries answered
Jan/Feb/March 2015 Declarations submitted, burden
sharing participants receive
statement of cost & invoice
March 2015
Compliance certificates issued
*NOTE - burden sharing can be achieved by other means
providing any scheme put in place is open to audit and
appropriate evidence from a comparable audited burden
sharing arrangement or scheme meets the same standard
as CAMEO.
It should be borne in mind that the UK is signed up to the
OSPAR Hazardous Substances Strategy which requires
total cessation of mercury emissions from crematoria by
2020.
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Industrial processes that
require a permit
Below is a list of documents that define the type of
process that require an Environmental Permit. An
operator of such processes must be in possession
of a Permit issued by the Local Authority in order
to operate that process i.e. prior to any potentially
harmful substances being released in to the
environment.
Process Guidance Notes relate to the regulation
of pollutants released to atmosphere whilst Sector
Guidance Notes relate to the regulation of pollutants
released to land and water as well as air. All guidance
notes are available on the Defra website – http://www.
defra.gov.uk/industrial-emissions/las-regulations/
guidance/
The majority of these processes need to meet a
threshold level before a Permit is required. Only
in some cases is the threshold level irrelevant and
any use of the hazardous substance triggers the
requirement for permitting.
In some instances there may be an activity that in
itself may not require permitting but falls under the
permitting regime as a directly associated activity.
This can include processes that use solvents or have
small waste incineration plants.
If you think you have a process that may require
permitting contact your Local Authority who will be
able to confirm if this is the case and will advise you
as to how to go about getting a Permit.
Process Guidance Notes - Part B
Processes
Animal and Vegetable Processing sectors:
• PG 6/05 (13) – Maggot breeding
• PG 6/12 (13) – Sausage casings
• PG 6/19 (13) - Fish meal processing
• PG 6/21 (13) – Hide and skin Processes
• PG 6/24 (13) - Pet food manufacture
• PG 6/26 (13) – Animal feed compound
• PG6/27(05) – Vegetable matter drying
processes. Removed from the Regulations in
2013 but the note is left on the website by
DEFRA
• PG 6/30 (13) - Mushroom substrate
manufacture
• PG 6/36 (13) - Tobacco processes
Combustion and Incineration:
• PG 1/3 (12) – Boilers and furnaces, 20 50 MW
net rated thermal input
• PG 1/4 (11) – Gas turbines, 20-50 MW net rated
thermal input
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• PG1/1 (04) – Waste oil and recovered oil
burners less than 0.4MW
• PG1/02 (05) - Waste oil or recovered oil
burners, 0.4 3 MW net rated thermal input
• PG1/05 (95) – Compression ignition engines, 20
50 MW net rated thermal input
• PG1/12 (12) – Combustion of waste wood
(Revised July 2013)
• PG5/2 (12) – Crematoria
• PG5/3 (13) – Animal carcass incineration
(Revised July 2013)
Minerals sector:
• PG 3/01 (12) - Blending, packing, loading,
unloading and Use of Bulk Cement
• PG 3/02 (12) – Manufacture of heavy clay
goods and Refractory Goods
• PG 3/04 (04) – Lead glass, glass frit and
enamel frit manufacturing processes
• PG 3/05 (12) – Coal, coke, coal product and
petroleum coke
• PG 3/06 (04) – Polishing or etching glass or
glass products using hydrofluoric acid
• PG 3/07 (12) - Exfoliation of vermiculite and
expansion of perlite
• PG 3/08 (12) – Quarry processes
• PG 3/12 (04) – Plaster processes
• PG 3/13 (95) – Asbestos processes (nonconsolidated with additional guidance
• PG 3/14 (04) – Lime processes
• PG 3/15 (12) – Roadstone coating processes
• PG 3/18 (12) – Mineral drying and cooling
(Revised September 2013)
• PG 3/16 (12) – Mobile crushing and screening
• PG 3/17 (12) – China and ball clay processes
including spray drying of ceramics
• PG 6/02 (12) – Manufacture of timber and
wood-based products
• PG 6/29 (12) – Di-isocyanate proceses
Metals sector:
• PG2/01 (13) - Furnaces for the extraction of
non-ferrous metal from scrap (Revised July
2013)
• PG2/02 (13) – Hot dip galvanizing processes
(Revised July 2013)
• PG2/03 (13) - Electrical, crucible and
reverberatory furnaces (Revised July 2013)
• PG2/04 (13) – Iron, steel and non-ferrous metal
foundry processes (Revised July 2013)
• PG2/05 (13) – Hot and cold blast cupolas, and
rotary furnaces (Revised July 2013)
• PG2/06 (13) – Processes melting and producing
aluminium and its alloys (Revised July 2013)
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• PG2/07 (13) – Zinc and zinc alloy processes
(Revised July 2013)
• PG2/08 (13) - Copper and copper alloy
processes (Revised July 2013)
• PG2/09 (13) - Metal decontamination processes
(Revised July 2013)
• PG2/10 (13) - Melting magnesium and its alloys
(Revised July 2013)
• PG4/01 (13) – Surface treatment of metal
processes (Revised July 2013)
• PG6/35 (13) - Metal and other thermal spraying
processes (Revised July 2013)
Organic chemicals sector:
• PG4/02 (13) – Fibre reinforced plastics
Petroleum and powder coating sector:
• 1/13 (13) – Storage, unloading and loading
petrol at terminals
• 1/14 (13) – Unloading of petrol into storage at
petrol stations
• 6/9 (04) – Manufacture of coating powder
• 6/31 (13) – Powder coating including
sherardizing and vitreous enamelling dry
• 6/42 (13) - Bitumen and tar processes
Solvents sector:
• 6/03 (11) – Chemical treatment of timber and
wood-based
• 6/07 (11) - Printing and coating of metal
packaging (Revised June 2014)
• 6/08 (11) – Textile and fabric coating and
finishing (Revised June 2014)
• 6/13 (04) – Coil coating
• 6/14 (11) – Film coating (Revised June 2014)
• 6/15 (11) – Coating in drum manufacturing and
reconditioning (Revised June 2014)
• 6/16 (11) - Printing (Revised June 2014)
• 6/17 (11) – Printing of flexible packaging
(Revised June 2014)
• 6/18 (11) – Paper coating (Revised June 2014)
• 6/20 (11) – Paint application in vehicle
manufacturing (Revised June 2014)
• 6/22 (11) – Leather finishing (Revised June
2014)
• 6/23 (11) – Coating of metal and plastic
(Revised June 2014)
• 6/25 (04) – Vegetable oil extraction and fat and
oil refining
• 6/28 (11) – Rubber (Revised June 2014)
• 6/32 (11) – Adhesive coating including footwear
manufacturing (Revised June 2014)
• 6/33 (11) – Wood coating (Revised June 2014)
• 6/34 (11) - Respraying of road vehicles
(Revised .July 2013)
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• 6/40 (11) – Coating and recoating of aircraft and
aircraft components (Revised June 2013)
• 6/41 (11) – Coating and recoating of rail
vehicles (Revised June 2014)
• 6/43 (11) - Formulation and finishing of
pharmaceutical products (Revised June 2014)
• 6/44 (11) - Manufacture of coating materials
(Revised June 2014)
• 6/45 (11) – Surface cleaning (Revised June
2014)
• 6/46 (11) – Dry cleaning (Revised June 2014)
• 6/47 (11) – Original coating of road vehicles and
trailers (replaces PG 6/34a (06) (Revised June
2014)
Sector Guidance Notes – Part A2
Processes
• IPPC SG1 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for
the Particleboard, Oriented Strand Board and
Dry Process Fibreboard Sector (September
2006)
• IPPC SG2 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for
the A2 Glassmaking Sector (revised 31 October
2006)
• IPPC SG3 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for
the A(2) Ferrous Foundries Sector (January
2006)
• IPPC SG4 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for
A(2) Activities in the Non-ferrous Metals Sector
(January 2006)
• IPPC SG5 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for
the A2 Galvanising Sector (September 2006)
• IPPC SG6 – Secretary of State’s Guidance
for the A2 Surface Treatment Using Organic
Solvents Sector (February 2011)
• IPPC SG7 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for
the A2 Ceramics Sector including Heavy Clay,
Refractories, Calcining Clay and Whiteware
(September 2007)
• IPPC SG8 – Secretary of State’s Guidance
for the A2 Rendering Sector (November 2008)
(Revised December 2008)
• IPPC SG9 – Secretary of State’s Guidance
for A2 Roadstone Coating, Mineral and Other
Processes that Burn Recovered Fuel Oil (April
2005)
• IPPC SG10 – Secretary of State’s Guidance for
the A2 Animal carcass incineration with capacity
of less than 1 tonne per hour
• Note SG11 - Wood Products Preservation with
Chemicals is in draft form
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LAPPC charges for 2015/16
Defra has just announced that the Government does not intend to amend the fees and charges
applicable under the LAPPC and LA-IPPC Schemes for the coming year (2015/16). Therefore, the
existing schemes which have been in place since January 2014 will remain the in place until they are
revoked and replaced. Please see below for the current details.
Type of
charge
Type of process
2015/16
fee
Application fee
Standard process (includes solvent emission activities)
Additional fee for operating without a permit
PVRI, SWOBs and Dry Cleaners
PVR I & II combined
VRs and other Reduced Fee Activities
Reduced fee activities: Additional fee for operating without a permit
Mobile plant**
for the third to seventh applications
for the eighth and subsequent applications
Where an application for any of the above is for a combined Part B and
waste application, add an extra £297 to the above amounts
Standard process Low
Standard process Medium
Standard process High
PVRI, SWOBs and Dry Cleaners L/M/H
PVR I & II combined L/M/H
VRs and other Reduced Fees L/M/H
Mobile plant, for first and second permits L/M/H**
for the third to seventh permits L/M/H
eighth and subsequent permits L/M/H
Late payment Fee
*the additional amounts in brackets must be charged where a permit is
for a combined Part B and waste installation
Where a Part B installation is subject to reporting under the E-PRTR
Regulation, add an extra £99 to the above amounts
£1579
£1137
£148
£246
£346
£68
£1579
£943
£477
Annual
subsistence
charge
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£739 (+99)
£1111 (+£149)
£1672 (+£198)
£76 £151 £227
£108 £216 £326
£218 £349 £524
£618 £989 £1484
£368 £590 £884
£189 £302 £453
£50
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Type of
charge
Type of process
2015/16
fee
Transfer and
Surrender
Standard process transfer
Standard process partial transfer
New operator at low risk reduced fee activity (extra one-off subsistence
charge - see Art 15(2) of charging scheme)
Surrender: all Part B activities
Reduced fee activities: transfer
Reduced fee activities: partial transfer
First transfer
£162
£476
£75
£0
£0
£45
£51
Repeat following enforcement or warning
£51
Temporary
transfer for
mobiles
Substantial
change
Standard process
£1005
Standard process where the substantial change results in a new PPC
£1579
activity
Reduced fee activities
£98
**not using simplified permits
LAPPC mobile plant charges for 2015/16 (Not using simplified permits)
Number of
permits
Application fee
2015/16
Subsistence fee 2015/16
Low
Medium
High
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8 and over
£1579
£1579
£943
£943
£943
£943
£943
£477
£618
£618
£368
£368
£368
£368
£368
£189
£1484
£1484
£884
£884
£884
£884
£884
£453
£989
£989
£590
£590
£590
£590
£590
£302
LAPPC mobile plant charges for 2015/16 (Not using simplified permits)
NB – every subsistence charge in the table below includes the additional £99 charge to
cover LA extra costs in dealing with reporting under the E-PRTR Regulation.
Type of charge
Local authority element 2015/16
Application
Additional fee for operating without a permit
Annual Subsistence LOW
Annual Subsistence MEDIUM
Annual Subsistence HIGH
Late Payment Fee
Substantial Variation
Transfer
Partial transfer
Surrender
£3218
£1137
£1384
£1541
£2233
£50
£1309
£225
£668
£668
Key
Subsistence charges can be paid in four equal quarterly instalments paid on 1st April, 1st July, 1st October and
1st January. Where paid quarterly the total amount payable to the local authority will be increased by £36.
Reduced fee activities are listed in the Schedule to the Part B scheme
Newspaper advertisements
Newspaper adverts may be required under EPR at the discretion of the LA as part of the consultation process
when considering an application (see Chapter 9 of the General Guidance Manual). This will be undertaken and
paid for by the LA and the charging scheme contains a provision for the LA to recoup its costs.
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