The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018

PART 2 Metal contamination

7.—(1) A permit for a Part A installation at which the activity described in paragraph (b)(iv) of Part A of section 5.4 of schedule 1 of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012(1) is carried out includes the conditions specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) The specified conditions are—

(a) the operator must establish systems to detect the presence of radioactive contamination in materials received at the installation;

(b) the operator must inform SEPA promptly if it suspects, or has knowledge of, the presence of radioactive contamination in material at the installation (whether present in the material as received, as a result of melting of or other metallurgical operation on an orphan source or otherwise); and

(c) the operator must not dispose of any materials contaminated, or suspected to be contaminated, with radioactivity without approval from SEPA.

(3) This paragraph applies in the period from the relevant date until the date that SEPA varies the permit so as to include the conditions specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(4) In this paragraph—

(a) “installation” and “permit” have the same meaning as given in regulation 2(1); and

(b) “Part A installation” has the same meaning as given in regulation 12(1),

of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012.

(1)

S.S.I. 2012/360.