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Resource Management (NES) Regulations 2004

Resource Management (NES) Regulations 2004. Louise Wickham Ministry for the Environment. Presentation Overview. What is in the regulation What was our intent Future standards. What is in the Regulation. List of Prohibited Activities Ambient Air Quality Standards 2 x Design Standards.

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Resource Management (NES) Regulations 2004

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  1. Resource Management (NES) Regulations 2004 Louise Wickham Ministry for the Environment

  2. Presentation Overview • What is in the regulation • What was our intent • Future standards

  3. What is in the Regulation • List of Prohibited Activities • Ambient Air Quality Standards • 2 x Design Standards

  4. Prohibited Activities • Fires at landfills • Burning of tyres, bitumen, coated wire, or oil in the open “Threshold of Significance”

  5. Prohibited Activities Incinerators: • No new high temperature hazardous waste facilities • Resource consents for schools & hospitals by Oct 2006

  6. Ambient Standards • Ambient air standards • concentration limits • based on 2002 guidelines

  7. Application • Defined “airsheds” • specified by Minister • open air • where people are exposed

  8. Monitoring • If standard likely to be breached • “Worst” location • Do NOT have to monitor everywhere

  9. Notification of Exceedance • Monthly notification in accordance with RMA: • contaminant • location • extent

  10. PM10 and Resource Consents Before 2013 if standard breached: • consents permitted only if below straight line path

  11. Defining the Straight Line Path • Based on emissions • Base year worst case • Practical

  12. PM10 and Resource Consents 2 • If standard met: • do not exceed standard • If standard breached: • no consents permitted After 2013:

  13. Resource Consents & Other Pollutants • SO2 • must not exceed standard • CO, NOx & Ozone • must not exceed standard if a principle source

  14. Wood burner standard New wood burners on lot size less than 2 hectares: • max particle emission of 1.5 g/kg • min thermal efficiency of 65%

  15. Landfill Gas Design Standard Control of greenhouse gases at landfills: • Installation of gas collection system for operating landfills over 1 million tonnes (unless landfill than 5% putrescible waste) • Includes industrial monofills

  16. Commencement • Ambient standards 1 Sept 05 • Incinerators at schools/hospitals 1 Oct 06 • All others came into force 8 Oct 04

  17. Implementing the Bans • Over-rides rules in plans • Does not affect existing resource consents (only) • RMA enforcement provisions

  18. Implementing “Airsheds” • “Local Air Management Areas” • Drafts by NIWA early Feb • Notify Minister by 1 July 2005

  19. LAMAs ARE: • Reasonably large • Geophysical • Reviewable • Can be categorised

  20. LAMAs are NOT: • “Airsheds” in strict geophysical terms • Small areas around problem sources

  21. Future Air Standard? • 20 µg/m3 PM10 annual average • Reporting standard only? • Linked to resource consents with delayed introduction?

  22. Future other standards • Raw drinking water • Contaminated sites • Biosolids • Electromagnetic radiation • Septic tanks

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