The Developments of National Significance (Specified Criteria and Prescribed Secondary Consents) (Wales) Regulations 2016

Hazardous waste facilities

14.—(1) The construction of a hazardous waste facility is within regulation 3(1)(k) only if—

(a) the main purpose of the facility is the final disposal or recovery of hazardous waste, and

(b) the facility is expected to have the capacity specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The capacity is—

(a) in the case of the disposal of hazardous waste by landfill or in a deep storage facility, more than 100,000 tonnes per year;

(b) in any other case, more than 30,000 tonnes per year.

(3) The alteration of a hazardous waste facility is within regulation 3(1)(k) only if—

(a) the main purpose of the facility is the final disposal or recovery of hazardous waste, and

(b) the alteration is expected to increase the capacity of the facility—

(i) in the case of the disposal of hazardous waste by landfill or in a deep storage facility, by more than 100,000 tonnes per year;

(ii) in any other case, by more than 30,000 tonnes per year.

(4) In this regulation—

“deep storage facility” (“cyfleuster storio dwfn”) means a facility for the storage of waste underground in a deep geological cavity;

and the following terms have the same meanings as in the Hazardous Waste (England and Wales) Regulations 2005(1)—

“disposal” (“gwaredu”);

“hazardous waste” (“gwastraff peryglus”);

“recovery” (“adfer”).

(1)

S.I.2005/894. See regulation 5.