13EPA—certain non-scheduled activities

13 EPA—certain non-scheduled activities

13 EPA—certain non-scheduled activities

(1) The EPA is declared to be the appropriate regulatory authority for the following non-scheduled activities—

(a) the mixing of crushed or ground rock with bituminous materials, if the activity—

(i) has a capacity to produce more than 150 tonnes of bituminous mixture per day or 30,000 tonnes of bituminous mixture per year, and

(ii) is carried out otherwise than on, or adjacent to, a construction site to provide bituminous mixture for the site for a period totalling no more than 12 months,

(b) the production of pre-mixed concrete having a capacity to produce more than 30,000 tonnes per year of concrete,

Example—

An example of the production of pre-mixed concrete is concrete batching plants.

(c) activities, other than mobile waste processing, that—

(i) include 1 or more of the scheduled activities described in the Act, Schedule 1, Part 1, and

(ii) is carried out by mobile plant,

(d) the transport of hazardous and other waste of more than 200 kilograms per load, other than the transport of excluded waste,

(e) the transport of waste tyres of more than 2 tonnes per load, other than the transport of excluded waste.

(2) In this section—

excluded waste means the following—

(a) waste that is transported while dealing with an accident or emergency,

(b) lead acid batteries or waste oil collected for recovery,

(c) stormwater,

(d) waste to which the Act, Schedule 1, clause 48 applies.

friable asbestos waste means asbestos waste—

(a) in the form of a powder, or

(b) that can be crumbled or reduced to powder by hand pressure when dry.

transport of hazardous and other waste means the transport of hazardous waste, restricted solid waste, liquid waste, clinical and related waste or friable asbestos waste, or a combination of these wastes.