resource management (nes) regulations 2004 louise wickham ministry for the environment
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Resource Management (NES) Regulations 2004
Louise WickhamMinistry for the Environment
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Presentation Overview
• What is in the regulation
• What was our intent
• Future standards
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What is in the Regulation
• List of Prohibited Activities
• Ambient Air Quality Standards
• 2 x Design Standards
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Prohibited Activities
• Fires at landfills
• Burning of tyres, bitumen, coated wire, or oil in the open
“Threshold of Significance”
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Prohibited Activities
Incinerators:– No new high temperature
hazardous waste facilities– Resource consents for schools
& hospitals by Oct 2006
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Ambient Standards
• Ambient air standards
– concentration limits
– based on 2002 guidelines
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Pollutant Limit Units Exceed/yr
CO 10 mg/m3, 8-hr 1
NO2 200 µg/m3, 1-hr 9
O3 150 µg/m3, 1-hr 0
PM10 50 µg/m3, 24-hr 1
SO2 350
570
µg/m3, 1-hr
µg/m3, 1-hr
9
0
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Application
• Defined “airsheds”
– specified by Minister
– open air
– where people are exposed
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Monitoring
• If standard likely to be breached
• “Worst” location
• Do NOT have to monitor everywhere
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Notification of Exceedance
• Monthly notification in accordance with RMA:
– contaminant– location– extent
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PM10 and Resource Consents
Before 2013 if standard breached:
– consents permitted only if below straight line path
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Straight Line Path: PM10
0
30
01-Sep-05 01-Sep-13
Em
issi
on
s (k
g/k
m2/d
ay)
300
1,000
Max 200 µg/m3
Max 50 µg/m3
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Defining the Straight Line Path
• Based on emissions
• Base year worst case
• Practical
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PM10 and Resource Consents 2
• If standard met:– do not exceed standard
• If standard breached:– no consents permitted
After 2013:
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Resource Consents & Other Pollutants
• SO2
– must not exceed standard• CO, NOx & Ozone
– must not exceed standard if a principle source
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Wood burner standard
New wood burners on lot size less than 2 hectares:
– max particle emission of 1.5 g/kg
– min thermal efficiency of 65%
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Landfill Gas Design Standard
Control of greenhouse gases at landfills:
• Installation of gas collection system for
operating landfills over 1 million tonnes
(unless landfill than 5% putrescible waste)
• Includes industrial monofills
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Commencement
• Ambient standards 1 Sept 05
• Incinerators at schools/hospitals 1 Oct 06
• All others came into force 8 Oct 04
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Implementing the Bans
• Over-rides rules in plans
• Does not affect existing resource consents (only)
• RMA enforcement provisions
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Implementing “Airsheds”
• “Local Air Management Areas”
• Drafts by NIWA early Feb
• Notify Minister by 1 July 2005
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LAMAs ARE:
• Reasonably large
• Geophysical
• Reviewable
• Can be categorised
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LAMAs are NOT:
• “Airsheds” in strict geophysical terms
• Small areas around problem sources
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Future Air Standard?
• 20 µg/m3 PM10 annual average
• Reporting standard only?
• Linked to resource consents with delayed introduction?
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Future other standards
• Raw drinking water
• Contaminated sites
• Biosolids
• Electromagnetic radiation
• Septic tanks
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