CLOSED : Land remediation and Waste Management
Guidelines
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is consulting on its
proposals for how it will regulate land remediation in terms of the
Waste Framework Directive.
Your response to this consultation will be used to produce the
final version of a SEPA document which will be aimed at providing
guidance to all those involved with the planning, carrying out and
regulating of land remediation.
The document aims to streamline part of the development process
enabling Local Authority and SEPA regulators to work together to
achieve the same outcomes. This is delivered by aligning the
requirements of the relevant waste regulatory
mechanisms for on-site re-use to those of developmental control and
Part IIA in order to provide greater focus on the risk based
remediation plans. This will result in benefits as the level of
evidence required to satisfy Local Authority and SEPA
(Waste) regulators will be the same. Providing clarity and
consistency, the document will also provide a sound basis for
regulators to work more closely together to ensure compliance with
agreed remediation plans.
Consultation responses
In order to help us review response, SEPA has created a number
of questions for you to consider. We would appreciate your
answers to any or all of these and any other comments you might
have regarding the content or structure of the consultation
document.
Response or queries to this consultation should be submitted no
later than Friday 7th August 2009 by e-mail or by mail to:
Land Remediation and Waste Management Consultation
FAO: Andrew Sullivan
National Waste Policy Unit
SEPA Corporate Office
Erskine Court
Stirling
FK9 4TR
SEPA may wish to publish responses to this consultation paper.
If so, all responses will be made public unless a respondent
specifically asks for their response to be treated confidentially.
Confidential responses may be included in any statistical
summary of numbers of responses received or views expressed.
Respondents should be aware that SEPA is subject to the
provisions of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and
would therefore have to consider any request made to it under the
Act for information relating to responses made to this
consultation exercise.
What happens next?
Following the closing date, all responses will be considered
prior to publication of the final version of the guidance
document.