2014-05-30-fa40-dea-busa-meeting-584f2f50a67ba026.pdf

This briefing document records the outcomes of a meeting between the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) and Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) regarding the draft regulations for activities resulting in atmospheric emissions that may have detrimental environmental effects. The meeting focused on refining definitions, compliance timeframes, and specific emission standards across various industrial categories to ensure they are based on justifiable reasoning and ambient air quality standards.

• The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) and Business Unity South Africa (BUSA) agreed that the objective of the notice is to maintain ambient air quality standards and promote continuous environmental performance improvement, with any more stringent emission limits requiring "justifiable reasoning".
• The definition of "Alternative fuels and resources" (AFR) was amended to include general and hazardous waste used to substitute virgin raw materials or primary fossil fuels in industrial thermal processes and cement kilns.
• Regarding compliance timeframes, the parties agreed that guidelines would be published to clarify the implementation of Section 6, specifically concerning whether applications for extensions of the five-year compliance timeframe could be made more than once.
• Specific industrial emission standard adjustments were agreed upon, including the deletion of the vanadium limit for the current round, the removal of the hydrogen cyanide limit, and the exclusion of burning grounds from the definition of hazardous and general waste disposal.

APA

Centre for Environmental Rights (n.d.). 2014-05-30-fa40-dea-busa-meeting-584f2f50a67ba026.pdf. https://cer.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014-05-30-FA40-DEA-BUSA-meeting.pdf?x21779

Chicago

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