complying with mining waste directive - charlotte danvers
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Defining extractive materials and applying for a permit
Charlotte DanversEnvironment and Business Team Leader10 October 2010
Targeted, proportionate and consistent regulation
How the regulatory approach worksAssessing if you have wasteQuestions we may ask youHow to obtain a permit When to applyHow to get advice and information
How the approach to extractive materials works
InterpretationSelf assessment using the CBI Minerals Group Guidance NoteVerificationEmail EMMS to our Permitting Support CentreChecking
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Questions we may ask
Have you identified and characterised all the extractive materials?
Is it clear what is happening to each material?
Is the guarantee on certainty of use sufficient? Eg Time period, storage conditions, phasing
Is there any further processing / treatment? Settlement of fines fraction to form a solid is further processing of the fines and water.
Is there a need to protect humans and the environment, eg groundwater?
Regulatory framework
Unpolluted soil, peat and prospecting: RPS 42
Activities involving management of extractive waste are mining waste operationsPermitting advice: PS 19Simple process for mostWaste management plans
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30 December 2010
Deadline for permit application for a mining waste operation (without a mining waste facility)Deposit of inert extractive waste for less than 3 yearsDeposit of non-inert non-hazardous extractive waste for less than 1 yearDeposit of any non-hazardous extractive waste, for any time period, in the extraction void where all of the ultimate perimeter of the void is natural undisturbed ground and the entire void is below natural undisturbed ground level.
1 May 2011
Deadline for permit application for a mining waste operation with one or more mining waste facility:Deposit of inert extractive waste for more than 3 yearsDeposit of non-inert non-hazardous extractive waste for more than 1 yearDeposit of any extractive waste in the extraction void, for longer than the relevant time periods, where an engineered dam or other structure is required to retain the extractive waste in the void Any deposit of hazardous extractive wasteCategory A facility
Advice
Technical guidance note Directive and commission decisionsGovernment guidanceWebsite
www.environment-agency.gov.uk
Business and industry/sectors/mining waste
www.NetRegs.gov.uk
Contact
Permitting Support CentreEmail: [email protected]
Customer contact number08708 506 506* (Mon-Fri, 8am - 6pm)[email protected]
Your local office if you want pre-application advice
