Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Air Quality) Regulations 2004

Reprint as at 1 June 2011

Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Air Quality) Regulations 2004

(SR 2004/309)

Silvia Cartwright, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 6th day of September 2004

Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

  • Regulation name: amended, on 1 June 2011, by regulation 4(2) of the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Air Quality) Amendment Regulations 2011 (SR 2011/103).

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.

These regulations are administered by 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

1 Title

2 Commencement

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

16A Exceptional circumstances causing breach of standard

16B Allowances for meeting PM10 standard

16C Meaningful PM10 data for airshed

16D Calculation of airshed's average exceedances of PM10 per year

Resource consents for discharges of PM10

17 Certain applications must be declined unless other PM10 discharges reduced

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

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

17C Other applications must be declined unless discharges offset [Revoked]

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

19 Resource consents for PM10 discharges after 31 August 2013 [Revoked]

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

Wood burners

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

23 Design standard

24 Thermal efficiency standard

Domestic solid-fuel burning open fires

24A Discharge from certain open fires prohibited

Control of greenhouse gas emissions at landfills

25 Application of regulations 26 and 27

26 Control of gas

27 Flaring of gas

More stringent rule, resource consent, or bylaw prevails

28 More stringent rule, resource consent, or bylaw prevails

Schedule 1
Ambient air quality standards for contaminants

Schedule 2
Monitoring methods for ambient air quality standards

Gazette information

Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Air Quality) Amendment Regulations 2011

Reprint notes

Regulations