The Offshore Combustion Installations (Pollution Prevention and Control) Regulations 2013

Applications for permits [F1: large combustion installations] U.K.

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(2) [F3Where an application for a permit relates to the operation of a large combustion installation, the application must] include a description of—

(a)the offshore combustion installation (“the installation”) and its activities;

(b)[F4the relevant platform comprising the installation];

(c)the materials, substances and energy used in or generated by the installation;

(d)the sources of emissions from the installation;

(e)the conditions of the site of the installation;

(f)the nature and quantities of foreseeable emissions from the installation into each medium and any significant effects of the emissions on the environment;

(g)the proposed technology and other techniques for preventing or, where this is not possible, reducing emissions from the installation;

(h)where necessary, measures for the prevention and recovery of waste generated by the installation;

(i)measures planned to monitor emissions into the environment;

(j)to the extent not otherwise described, measures planned to comply with the principles listed in regulation 7(3); and

(k)the main alternatives (if any) to the technology and techniques referred to in sub-paragraph (g) studied by the applicant, in outline.

(3) [F5Where an application for a permit relates to the operation of a large combustion installation, the application must] be accompanied by a non-technical summary of the information which must be provided under paragraph (2).

(4) Where an applicant has an environmental statement which contains information which must be provided under paragraph (2), the applicant may include the statement with the application in order to provide that information.

(5) In paragraph (4), “environmental statement” has the same meaning as it has in regulation 3(1) of the [F6Offshore Oil and Gas Exploration, Production, Unloading and Storage (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2020].

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