The Space Industry Regulations 2021

Hazardous material storage facilities: location requirements and plan U.K.

158.—(1) A spaceport licensee must designate, in accordance with paragraph (2), appropriate areas at the spaceport for the safe storage of any hazardous material (“hazardous material storage facilities”).

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), whether an area is appropriate for the siting of a hazardous material storage facility must be determined in the light of—

(a) the assessment made in the spaceport licensee’s current safety case, and

(b) the types and quantities of hazardous material to be stored.

(3) The spaceport licensee must identify on the site plan required under regulation 36(4)(d)—

(a) the location of all hazardous material storage facilities at the spaceport;

(b) the maximum quantity of hazardous material to be stored at each facility, including the type of hazardous material and, if applicable, its hazard type;

(c) actual and minimum separation distances between each hazardous material storage facility and—

(i) any other hazardous material storage facility at the spaceport;

(ii) an inhabited building;

(iii) a public road or railway line;

(iv) a public area.

(4) The spaceport licensee must ensure that any hazardous material storage facility is clearly marked in a manner appropriate to the hazardous material stored.

(5) For the purposes of this regulation—

“hazard type” has the same meaning as in the Explosives Regulations 2014(1);

“inhabited building” means any building in or at which people are, or are likely to be, present either all the time or from time to time;

“minimum separation distance” means the minimum distance which is appropriate in the light of the assessment made in the spaceport licensee’s current safety case, between a hazardous material storage facility and any other infrastructure or building listed in paragraph (3)(c)(i) to (iv);

“public area” means any area within, or in the vicinity of, the spaceport and to which members of the public are allowed access;

“public road” means any thoroughfare outside the spaceport on which the movement of vehicles is allowed.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 158 in force at 29.7.2021, see reg. 1(1)

(1)

S.I. 2014/1638, amended by S.I. 2014/3248, S.I. 2016/315, S.I. 2016/345, S.I. 2016/721, S.I. 2017/469 and S.I. 2019/696.