Environment Agency Consultations on IPPC Guidance for Agriculture
The Environment Agency has issued two consultations relating to guidance concerning intensive farming installations that need to apply for a permit to operate under Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC)
The first relates to the requirement for applicants to submit a “site report” as part of a Permit application. This site report guidance and template is produced as a single document and its purpose is to assist the Intensive Farming sector in the production of an Application Site Report (ASR). It explains how it relates to pig and poultry farms and what information is needed to describe the condition of the land as part of the permit application.
The document is a consultation draft and the Agency is seeking comments on the content and usefulness of the guidance and template.
The second consultation relates to guidance on the assessment of environmental impacts from pig and poultry farms that require a permit to operate under the Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000. This guidance includes many of the principles applied to all sectors regulated under IPPC referred to in Horizontal Guidance note H1: Environmental Assessment and Appraisal of BAT. It describes a step-by-step approach to how to conduct an assessment of environmental impacts and includes a template for completing such an assessment.
Responses relating to the Site Report Guidance are due by 18 August 2006. Further information is available from the Agency website at:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/yourenv/consultations/1392430/?version=1&lang=_e
Responses relating to the environmental assessment guidance are due by 25 August 2006. Further information is available from the Agency website at:
http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/yourenv/consultations/1393122/?version=1&lang=_e
Source: www.environment-agency.gov.uk (accessed 05/06/06)