Statutory Rule 1998 No. 28
The Industrial Pollution Control (Prescribed Processes and Substances) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 - continued

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Part B


    (a) Any process not described in Part A of this Section for making or melting any non-ferrous metal or non-ferrous alloy (other than tin or any alloy which in molten form contains 50 per cent. or more by weight of tin) where the designed holding capacity of molten metal is 0.5 tonnes or more (together with any additional refining).

    (b) The fusion of calcined bauxite for the production of artificial corundum.

    (c) Melting zinc or a zinc alloy in conjunction with a galvanising process.

    (d) Any foundry process (including ancillary foundry operations such as the manufacture and recovery of moulds, the reclamation of sand, fettling, grinding and shot-blasting) if related to another process described in this Part of this Section.

The processes described in paragraphs (a) and (c) include any related process for the refining of any non-ferrous metal or non-ferrous metal alloy.

Part C
Any of the following processes, not described in Parts A or B of this Section:

    (a) The making or melting of any non-ferrous metal or non-ferrous metal alloy (other than tin or any alloy which, in molten form, contains 50 per cent. or more by weight of tin) where the designed holding capacity of molten metal is less than 0.5 tonnes (together with any incidental refining).

    (b) Any such process as is described in paragraph (i) of Part A above, if not related to another process described in that Part; but a process does not fall within this paragraph if - 

      (i) it involves the use of one or more furnaces or other appliances the primary combustion chambers of which have in aggregate a net rated thermal input of less than 0.2 megawatts; and

      (ii) it does not involve the removal by heat of plastic or rubber covering from scrap cable or of any asbestos contaminant.

    (c) Any foundry process (including ancillary foundry operations such as the manufacture and recovery of moulds, the reclamation of sand, fettling, grinding and shot-blasting) if related to another process described in this Part of this Section.

In this Section "net rated thermal input" has the same meaning as in Section 1.3.

Nothing in this Section shall be taken to prescribe the process of hand soldering or flow soldering.



Chapter 3

Mineral Industries

Section 3.1

Cement and lime manufacture and associated processes

Part A


    (a) Making cement clinker.

    (b) The heating of calcium carbonate or calcium magnesium carbonate for the purpose of making lime where the process is likely to involve the heating in any 12 month period of 5000 tonnes or more of either substance, or in aggregate of both.

    (c) Grinding cement clinker, if related to a process described in paragraph (a).

    (d) Any of the following processes, where the process is related to a process described in paragraph (a), namely, blending cement, putting cement into silos for bulk storage and removing cement from silos in which it has been stored in bulk and any process involving the use of cement in bulk, including the bagging of cement and cement mixtures, the batching of ready-mixed concrete and the manufacture of concrete blocks and other cement products.

    (e) The slaking of lime for the purpose of making calcium hydroxide or calcium magnesium hydroxide when the process is related to a process described in paragraph (b).

Part B


    (a) Grinding cement clinker, if not related to a process described in Part A.

    (b) The heating of calcium carbonate or calcium magnesium carbonate for the purpose of making lime where the process is not likely to involve the heating in any 12 month period of 5000 tonnes or more of either substance or in aggregate of both.

    (c) The slaking of lime for the purpose of making calcium hydroxide or calcium magnesium hydroxide when the process is related to a process described in paragraph (b) above.

    (d) Any of the following processes, other than at a construction site, namely, blending cement, putting cement into silos for bulk storage and removing cement from silos in which it has been stored in bulk and any process involving the use of cement in bulk, including the bagging of cement and cement mixtures, the batching of ready-mixed concrete and the manufacture of concrete blocks and other cement products where the process is not related to a process described in paragraph (a) of Part A of this section and is carried on at the same location as a process described in Part B of Section 3.4.


Part C


Any of the following processes, if not related to a process falling within a description in Part A or B of this Section:

    (a) storing, loading or unloading cement or cement clinker in bulk prior to further transportation in bulk;

    (b) blending cement in bulk or using cement in bulk other than at a construction site, including the bagging of cement and cement mixtures, the batching of ready-mixed concrete and the manufacture of concrete blocks and other cement products;

    (c) the slaking of lime for the purpose of making calcium hydroxide or calcium magnesium hydroxide unless related to and carried on as part of a process falling within another description in this Schedule.


Section 3.2

Processes involving asbestos

Part A


    (a) Producing raw asbestos by extraction from the ore except where the process is directly associated with the mining of the ore.

    (b) The manufacture and, where related to the manufacture, the industrial finishing of the following products where the use of asbestos is involved - 

           asbestos cement

           asbestos cement products

           asbestos fillers

           asbestos filters

           asbestos floor coverings

           asbestos friction products

           asbestos insulating board

           asbestos jointing, packaging and reinforcement material

           asbestos packing

           asbestos paper or card

           asbestos textiles.

    (c) The stripping of asbestos from railway vehicles except - 

      (i) in the course of the repair or maintenance of the vehicle;

      (ii) in the course of recovery operations following an accident; or

      (iii) where the asbestos is permanently bonded in cement or in any other material (including plastic, rubber or a resin).

    (d) The destruction by burning of a railway vehicle if asbestos has been incorporated in, or sprayed onto, its structure.

    Part B
    The industrial finishing of any product mentioned in paragraph (b) of Part A of this Section if the process does not fall within that paragraph.


Part C


Nil

In this Section, "asbestos" means any of the following fibrous silicates - 

actinolite, amosite, anthophyllite, chrysotile, crocidolite and tremolite.

Section 3.3

Other mineral fibres

Part A


Manufacturing

      (i) glass fibre;

      (ii) any fibre from any mineral other than asbestos.

Part B
Nil



Part C


Nil



Section 3.4

Other mineral Processes

Part A


Nil



Part B


Any of the following processes except where - 

      (i) the process falls within a description in another section of this schedule;

      (ii) the process is related to and carried on as part of another process falling within a description in in any section of this schedule; or

      (iii) the operation of the process is unlikely to result in the release into the air of particulate matter - 

    (a) the grading, screening, crushing, grinding or other size reduction (other than the cutting of stone) of any designated mineral or mineral product other than sand;

    (b) the heating of any designated mineral or mineral product.

In this paragraph "designated mineral or mineral product" means - 

      (i) clay, sand, lignite and any other naturally occurring mineral other than coal;

      (ii) metallurgical slag;

      (iii) boiler or furnace ash produced from the burning of coal, lignite, coke or any other coal product;

      (iv) gypsum which is a by-product of any process.

Part C


    (a) Any of the following processes unless carried on at an exempt location or as part of a process falling within another description in this Schedule - 

      (i) crushing, grinding or otherwise breaking up coal or coke or any other coal product;

      (ii) screening, grading or mixing coal, or coke or any other coal product;

      (iii) loading or unloading petroleum coke, coal, coke or any other coal product except unloading on retail sale. In this paragraph - 

    "exempt location" means - 

      (i) any premises used for the sale of petroleum coke, coal, coke or any coal product where the throughput of such substances at those premises in any 12 month period is in aggregate likely to be less than 10,000 tonnes, or

      (ii) any premises to which petroleum coke, coal, coke or any coal product is supplied only for use there.

    "retail sale" means sale to the final consumer.

    (b) The crushing, grinding or other size reduction with machinery designed for that purpose of bricks, tiles or concrete.

    (c) Screening the product of any such process as is described in paragraph (b).

    (d) Loading, unloading or storing pulverised fuel ash in bulk prior to further transportation in bulk unless carried on as part of or in relation to a process falling within another description in this Schedule.

Nothing in this Section applies to any process carried on underground.

Section 3.5

Glass manufacture and production

Part A


The manufacture of glass frit or enamel frit and its use in any process where that process is related to its manufacture and the aggregate quantity of such substances manufactured in any 12 month period is likely to be 100 tonnes or more.

Part B


    (a) The manufacture of glass at any location where the person concerned has the capacity to make 5000 tonnes or more of glass in any 12 month period, and any process involving the use of glass which is carried on at any such location in conjunction with its manufacture.

    (b) The manufacture of glass where the use of lead or any lead compound is involved.

    (c) The making of any glass product where lead or any lead compound has been used in the manufacture of glass except - 

      (i) the making of products from lead glass blanks;

      (ii) the melting, or mixing with another substance, of glass manufactured elsewhere to produce articles such as ornaments or road paint;

    (d) Polishing or etching glass or glass products in the course of any manufacturing process if - 

      (i) hydrofluoric acid is used; or

      (ii) hydrogen fluoride may be released into the air.

    (e) The manufacture of glass frit or enamel frit and its use in any process where that process is related to its manufacture if not falling within Part A of this Section.

Part C


Nil



Section 3.6

Ceramic Production

Part A


Nil



Part B


    (a) Firing heavy clay goods or refractory goods in a kiln where a reducing atmosphere is essential or with a production capacity exceeding 50 tonnes per day.

    (b) Vapour glazing earthenware or clay with salts.

Part C
Firing heavy clay goods or refractory material (other than heavy clay goods) in a kiln where the process does not fall within a description in Part B of this Section.

In this Section, "clay" includes a blend of clay with ash, sand or other materials;

    "refractory material" means material (such as fireclay, silica, magnesite, chrome-magnesite, sillimanite, sintered alumina, beryllia and boron nitride) which is able to withstand high temperatures and to function as a furnace lining or in other similar high temperature applications.



Chapter 4

The Chemical Industry

(See paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 as to cases where processes described in this chapter of the Schedule fall within two or more descriptions.)

Except where paragraph 2 or 15 of Schedule 2 applies, nothing in this chapter of this Schedule applies to the operation of a waste treatment plant.

Section 4.1

Petrochemical processes

Part A


    (a) Any process for the manufacture of unsaturated hydrocarbons.

    (b) Any process for the manufacture of any chemical which involves the use of a product of a process described in paragraph (a).

    (c) Any process for the manufacture of any chemical which involves the use of a product of a process described in paragraph (b) otherwise than as a fuel or solvent.

    (d) Any process for the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of any unsaturated hydrocarbons (other than the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of a pre-formulated resin or pre-formulated gel coat which contains any unsaturated hydrocarbons, or which contains any product of a process mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c) of Part A of this section) which is likely to involve, in any 12 month period, the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of 50 tonnes or more of unsaturated hydrocarbons or of any such products or, in aggregate, of any combination of those materials and products.

    (e) Any process, if related to and carried on as part of a process falling within another paragraph of this Part of this Section, for the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of any pre-formulated resin or pre-formulated gel coat which contains any unsaturated hydrocarbons, or which contains any product of a process mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c) of Part A of this Section, which is likely to involve, in any 12 month period, the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of 100 tonnes or more of unsaturated hydrocarbons or of any such products or, in aggregate, of any combination of those materials and products.

Part B
Any process unless related to and carried on as part of a process falling within Part A of this Section, for the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of any pre-formulated resin or pre-formulated gel coat which contains any unsaturated hydrocarbons, or which contains any product of a process mentioned in paragraph (b) or (c) of Part A of this Section, which is likely to involve, in any 12 month period, the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of 100 tonnes or more of unsaturated hydrocarbons or of any such products or, in aggregate, of any combination of those materials and products.

In this Section and in Section 4.2 "pre-formulated resin or pre-formulated gel coat" means any resin or gel coat which has been formulated before being introduced into the polymerisation or co-polymerisation process (whether or not the resin or gel coat contains a colour pigment, activator or catalyst).

Part C
Nil



Section 4.2

The manufacture and use of organic chemicals

Part A


Any of the following processes unless falling within a description set out in Section 6.8 - 

    (a) the manufacture of styrene or vinyl chloride;

    (b) the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of styrene or vinyl chloride (other than the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of a pre-formulated resin or pre-formulated gel coat which contains any styrene) where the process is likely to involve, in any 12 month period, the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of 50 tonnes or more of either of those materials or, in aggregate, of both;

    (c) any process if related to and carried on as part of a process falling within another paragraph of this Part of this Section, for the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of any pre-formulated resin or pre-formulated gel coat which contains any styrene, which is likely to involve, in any 12 month period, the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of 100 tonnes or more of styrene;

    (d) any process of manufacture involving the use of vinyl chloride;

    (e) the manufacture of acetylene, any aldehyde, amine, isocyanate, ketone, nitrile, any carboxylic acid or anhydride of carboxylic acid, any organic sulphur compound or any phenol if the process may result in the release of any of those substances into the air;

    (f) any process for the manufacture of a chemical involving the use of any substance mentioned in paragraph (e) if the process may result in the release of any such substance into the air;

    (g) the manufacture or recovery of carbon disulphide;

    (h) any manufacturing process which may result in the release of carbon disulphide into the air;

    (i) the manufacture or recovery of pyridine, or of any substituted pyridines;

    (j) the manufacture of any organo-metallic compound;

    (k) the manufacture, purification or recovery of any designated acrylate;

    (l) any process for the manufacture of a chemical which is likely to involve the use in any 12 month period of 1 tonne or more of any designated acrylate or, in aggregate, of more than one such designated acrylate.

In this Part of this Section, "designated acrylate" means any of the following, namely, acrylic acid, substituted acrylic acids, the esters of acrylic acid and the esters of substituted acrylic acids.

Part B
Any process unless related to and carried on as part of a process falling within Part A of this Section, for the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of any pre-formulated resin or pre-formulated gel coat which contains any styrene, which is likely to involve, in any 12 month period, the polymerisation or co-polymerisation of 100 tonnes or more of styrene.

Part C


Nil



Section 4.3

Acid Processes

Part A


    (a) Any process for the manufacture, recovery, concentration or distillation of sulphuric acid or oleum.

    (b) Any process for the manufacture of any oxide of sulphur but excluding any combustion or incineration process other than the burning of sulphur.

    (c) Any process for the manufacture of a chemical which uses, or may result in the release into the air of, any oxide of sulphur or sulphuric acid mist but excluding any combustion or incineration process other than the burning of sulphur and excluding also any process where such a release could only occur as a result of the storage and use of SO2 in cylinders.

    (d) Any process for the manufacture or recovery of nitric acid.

    (e) Any process for the manufacture of any acid-forming oxide of nitrogen.

    (f) Any other process (except the combustion or incineration of carbonaceous material as defined in Section 1.1 of this Schedule) which is not described in Part B of this Section, does not fall within a description in Section 2.1 or 2.2 of this Schedule and is not treated as so falling by virtue of the rules in Schedule 2, and which is likely to result in the release into the air of any acid forming oxide of nitrogen.

    (g) Any process for the manufacture or purification of phosphoric acid.

Part B
Any process for the surface treatment of metal which is likely to result in the release into the air of any acid-forming oxide of nitrogen and which does not fall within a description in Section 2.1 or 2.2 of this Schedule and is not treated as so falling by virtue of the rules in Schedule 2.

Part C

Nil



Section

4.4 Processes involving halogens

Part A
The following processes if not falling within a description in any other Section of this Schedule - 

    (a) Any process for the manufacture of fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine or of any compound comprising only - 

      (i) two or more of these halogens; or

      (ii) any one or more of those halogens and oxygen ;

    (b) Any process of manufacture which involves the use of, or which is likely to result in the release into the air or into the water of, any of those four halogens or any of the compounds mentioned in paragraph (a), other than the use of any of them as a pesticide (as defined in Schedule 6) in water ;

    (c) Any process for the manufacture of hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen bromide or hydrogen iodide or any of their acids ;

    (d) Any process for the manufacture of chemicals which may result in the release into the air of any of the four compounds mentioned in paragraph (c);

    (e) Any process of manufacture (other than the manufacture of chemicals) involving the use of any of the four compounds mentioned in paragraph (c) or any of their acids which may result in the release of any of those compounds into the air, other than the coating, plating or surface treatment of metal.

Part B


Nil



Part C


Nil



Section 4.5

Inorganic chemical processes

Part A


    (a) The manufacture of hydrogen cyanide or hydrogen sulphide other than in the course of fumigation.

    (b) Any manufacturing process involving the use of hydrogen cyanide or hydrogen sulphide.

    (c) Any process for the manufacture of a chemical which may result in the release into the air of hydrogen cyanide or hydrogen sulphide.

    (d) The production of any compound containing any of the following - 

           antimony

           arsenic

           beryllium

           gallium

           indium

           lead

           palladium

           platinum

           selenium

           tellurium

           thallium

           titanium

           vanadium

    where the process may result in the release into the air of any of those elements or compounds or the release into water of any substance listed in Schedule 5 in a quantity which in any 12 month period exceeds the background quantity by more than the amount specified in relation to the description of the substance in column 2 of Schedule 5.

    (e) The recovery of any compound referred to in paragraph (d) where the process may result in any such release as is mentioned in that paragraph.

    (f) The use in any process of manufacture, (other than the application of a glaze or vitreous enamel), of any element or compound referred to in paragraph (d) where the process may result in such a release as is mentioned in that paragraph.

    (g) The production or recovery of any compound of cadmium or mercury.

    (h) Any process of manufacture which involves the use of cadmium or mercury or of any compound of either of those elements or which may result in the release into the air of either of those elements or any of their compounds.

    (i) The production of any compound of - 

           chromium

           manganese

           nickel

           zinc.

    (j) The manufacture of any metal carbonyl.

    (k) Any process for the manufacture of a chemical involving the use of a metal carbonyl.

    (l) The manufacture or recovery of ammonia.

    (m) Any process for the manufacture of a chemical which involves the use of ammonia or may result in the release of ammonia into the air other than a process in which ammonia is used only as a refrigerant.

    (n) The production of phosphorus or of any oxide, hydride or halide of phosphorus.

    (o) Any process for the manufacture of a chemical which involves the use of phosphorus or any oxide, hydride or halide of phosphorus or which may result in the release into the air of phosphorus or of any such oxide, hydride or halide.

    (p) The extraction of any magnesium compound from sea water.

Part B
The manufacture of inorganic chemicals not described elsewhere in this Schedule.

Part C
Nil



Section 4.6

Chemical Fertiliser Production

Part A


    (a) The manufacture of chemical fertilisers.

    (b) The conversion of chemical fertilisers into granules.

In this Section, "chemical fertilisers" means any inorganic chemical to be applied to the soil to promote plant growth; and "inorganic chemical" includes urea; and "manufacture of chemical fertilisers" shall be taken to include any process for blending chemical fertilisers which is related to a process for their manufacture.

Part B
Nil



Part C
Nil



Section 4.7

Pesticide Production

Part A
The manufacture or the formulation of chemical pesticides if the process may result in the release into water of any substance described in Schedule 5 in a quantity which in any 12 month period exceeds the background quantity by more than the amount specified in relation to the description of the substance in column 2 of Schedule 5.

 
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