Amendments proposed to the Pollution Prevention and Control Bill [Lords] - continued	House of Commons
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NEW SCHEDULE

   

Mr Tom Brake
Mr Andrew Stunell

NS1

To move the following Schedule:—

'Pollution Inventories

    For the purposes of section (Pollution inventories), substances and preparations have hazardous properties or characteristics if they are—

    (i) explosive;

    (ii) oxidising;

    (iii) highly flammable;

    (iv) flammable;

    (v) irritant;

    (vi) harmful;

    (vii) toxic;

    (viii) carcinogenic;

    (ix) corrosive;

    (x) infectious;

    (xi) teratogenic;

    (xii) mutagenic;

    (xiii) capable of releasing toxic or very toxic gases in contact with water, air or acid;

    (xiv) capable by any means, after disposal, of yielding another substance, e.g. a leachate, which possesses any of the characteristics listed in this Schedule;

    (xv) eco-toxic;

    (xvi) endocrine-disrupting;

    (xvii) capable of contributing to eutrophication (in particular, nitrates and phosphates);

    (xviii) capable of having an unfavourable influence on the oxygen balance of water;

    (xix) persistent;

    (xx) bioaccumulative;

    (xxi) radioactive;

    (xxii) capable of having an adverse effect on the layer of atmospheric ozone above the planetary boundary layer;

    (xxiii) gaseous constituents of the atmosphere absorbing and re-emitting infra-red radiation;

    (xxiv) capable of contributing to acid rain; or

    (xxv) capable of contributing to the build-up of tropospheric ozone and other oxidising photo-chemicals.'.

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Mr Michael Meacher

23

Clause     4,     page     3,     line     29,     after 'consequential' insert 'and minor'.

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Mr Michael Meacher

24

Schedule     2,     page     9,     line     23,     at end insert—

    ' . The Environmental Protection Act 1990 has effect subject to the following amendments.

     . In section 8(7) (expenditure to be covered by charging schemes under the section is that of local enforcing authorities in exercising their functions under Part I of the Act), at the end insert "together with the expenditure incurred by the Environment Agency in exercising, in relation to authorisations granted by local enforcing authorities or the prescribed processes to which such authorisations relate, such of its functions as are specified in the scheme.".'.

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Mr Simon Burns
Mrs Caroline Spelman
Mr Damian Green
Mrs Jacqui Lait

7

Schedule     3,     page     11,     line     23,     column     3,     leave out 'Sections 1 to 28'.

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Mr Michael Meacher

25

Clause     5,     page     4,     line     5,     leave out second 'section' and insert 'sections (Prevention etc. of pollution after accidents involving offshore installations) and'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

26

Clause     5,     page     4,     line     20,     leave out '22(5) of the Oil and Gas (Enterprise) Act 1982' and insert '10(8) of the Petroleum Act 1998'.

   

Mr Michael Meacher

27

Clause     5,     page     4,     line     22,     leave out subsection (10).

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Prepared 18 Jun 1999