The Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) Regulations 2000 are intended to ensure that operators take measures to protect the site of the installation from pollution and to return the site back to a satisfactory state.
The purpose of the guidance and the site report template is to assist operators in the production of Site Surrender Report (SSR). It relates only to the protection of land and forms part of the guidance on protecting the site during the life-time of the operation given in H7 Guidance on the Protection of Land under the PPC Regime: Application Site Report and Site Protection and Monitoring Programme". It considers the ways in which information about the condition of the site occupied by an installation may have arisen and how such data should be collated, critically reviewed and incorporated into a report that meets the surrender site report requirements of the PPC regime. It covers:
- the process of preparing the SSR;
- the different types of information that may be available for use in the SSR and the circumstances in which such information may have been produced;
- how information on the condition of the site should be evaluated and used to prepare the SSR;
- how to approach the preparation of the SSR including use of the reporting template.
To assist operators in providing an appropriate type and amount of information, the Agency has prepared a reporting template for submission of the SSR.
