The Environmental Protection Act 1990 and Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 provide for the setting of fees and charges for Local Air Pollution Control (LAPC), Local Air - Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (LA-IPPC), and Local Air Pollution Prevention and Control (LAPPC) at levels that will recover costs of local authorities of implementing the system. This consultation relates to the LAPC, LAPPC and LA-IPPC fees and charges in England. The National Assembly for Wales will be consulting separately on these charges.

It is proposed that the fees and charges for the two local air pollution control (LAPC/LAPPC) and local authority integrated pollution prevention and control (LA-IPPC) regimes for 2006/7 are increased by 2.5% over current levels. Defra is also proposing a change to the way in which the fees and charges are addressed, using the current risk based inspection methodology as the template. The proposed option for addressing changes to fees and charges takes into account non-inspection related work, the current risk based methodology, the number of hours spent regulating low, medium and high risk installations and average salaries of enforcing officers.

This year’s fees and charges and the proposed fees and charges for 2006/7 are detailed in the Regulatory Impact Assessment document, available from the following website:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/localauth-plantfees06-07/index.htm

The closing date for responses is 23rd December 2005.

Source: www.defra.gov.uk (accessed 11/11/05)

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