The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010

SECTION 6.3 Tar and Bitumen Activities

• Part A(1)

  (a)

  The following activities—

  (i)

  distilling tar or bitumen in connection with any process of manufacture, or

  (ii)

  heating tar for the manufacture of electrodes or carbon-based refractory materials,

  where the activity is likely to involve the use in any 12-month period of 5 or more tonnes of tar or of bitumen or both in aggregate.

• Part B

  (a)

  Any activity not falling within Part A(1) of this Section or of Section 6.2 involving—

  (i)

  heating, but not distilling, tar or bitumen in connection with any manufacturing activity, or

  (ii)

  oxidising bitumen by blowing air through it, at plant where no other activities described in any Section in this Schedule are carried on,

  where the carrying on of the activity is likely to involve the use in any 12-month period of 5 or more tonnes of tar or bitumen or both in aggregate.

Interpretation of Part B

1.  In Part B, “tar” and “bitumen” include pitch.