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Resource Management (National Environmental Standards Relating to Certain Air Pollutants, Dioxins, and Other Toxics) Regulations 2004

(SR 2004/309)

Note

These regulations are administered in the Ministry for the Environment

Pursuant to section 43 of the Resource Management Act 1991, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council (given on the recommendation of the Minister for the Environment after consultation in accordance with section 44 of that Act), makes the following regulations.

Contents

3 Interpretation

Prohibitions and restrictions on discharges from certain activities

4 Prohibition on discharges from certain activities

5 Prohibition on granting of resource consents for certain activities

6 Lighting of fires and burning of waste at landfill

7 Burning of tyres

8 Burning of bitumen

9 Burning of coated wire

10 Burning of oil

11 Incinerators at schools and healthcare institutions

12 High-temperature hazardous waste incinerators

Ambient air quality standards for contaminants

13 Ambient air quality standards

14 Application of standards

15 Regional council must monitor air quality if standard breached

16 Regional council must give public notice if standard breached

Resource consents for discharges of PM₁₀

17 Application of regulations 17A to 17C

17A Application must be declined if discharges likely to cause concentration of PM₁₀ in airshed to be above straight line path

17B Application must be decided in accordance with regional plan if regional plan provides for curved line path

17C Other applications must be declined unless discharges offset

18 Resource consents for PM₁₀ discharges before 1 September 2013 if concentration in airshed does not breach standard

19 Resource consents for PM₁₀ discharges after 31 August 2013

Resource consents for discharges of other contaminants

20 Resource consents for discharge of carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and volatile organic compounds

21 Resource consents for discharge of sulphur dioxide

22 Discharge from woodburners installed on certain properties after 1 September 2005 prohibited

23 Design standard

24 Thermal efficiency standard

Control of greenhouse gas emissions at landfills

25 Application of regulations 26 and 27

26 Control of gas

27 Flaring of gas

Schedule 1
Ambient air quality standards for contaminants

Schedule 2
Monitoring methods for ambient air quality standards

Explanatory note

Gazette information