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The Nitrates Action Programme (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

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These Regulations amend the Nitrates Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 in regard to the manner of storage of poultry litter and location of storage facilities.

Regulation 4 amends regulation 14 to require the doubling of the distances between temporary poultry litter field heaps and surface water features as well as requiring an authorisation for an individual field heap. Regulation 14 is also amended to ensure that poultry litter field heaps are not placed on soil that is water logged or in a location that is flooded or likely to flood.

Regulation 5 amends regulation 20 to include the new authorisation required by amended regulation 14 as a record that a controller must keep.

Regulation 6 amends regulation 24 to provide an appeal procedure where an application for an authorisation for temporary storage of poultry litter in a field heap is refused by the Department.

Regulation 7 amends regulation 25 to make offences for non compliance with amended regulation 14.

Regulation 8 amends the schedule to the principal Regulations to update incorrect values for nitrogen excretion rates and total nitrogen content of slurry.

Regulation 9 makes a consequential amendment to Schedule 2 to the Phosphorus (Use in Agriculture) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 reflecting the updates to the Schedule to the Nitrates Action Programme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010.

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