Stakeholder Involvement Program to Establish New and Better Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities in WA 3c web: telephone: (08) 6364 7019.

Stakeholder Involvement Program to Establish New and Better Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities in WA3c web: www.3c.org.au telephone: (08) 6364 7019

Controlling and Managing

Hazardous/Industrial Waste

Treatment Precincts

June 2006


Three Main Components of

3C Program

1. Establish stringent siting criteria for proposed precincts and advise Government on appropriate sites

2. Establish stringent technology suitability criteria for facilities operating in precincts

3. Establish legislative/regulatory/management requirements to ensure precincts operate as intended

June 2006


June 2006

FORUMTechnology Suitability

Criteria29 Nov 03

FORUMSiting Criteria

&Consultation

ProtocolMar 04

Industry/Local Govt and

community nomination of

sites Sept – Nov 04

3C/TAP short

listing of sites

Development of any new legislation and strategic environmental

assessment (including health) of

precincts 4

Detailed Assessment by

3C/TAP8

Cabinet endorsement of short-listed sites and

precinct model3

Preliminary Assessment by

TAP/3C6

Cabinet endorsement of Criteria & consultation

protocolJun/Jul 04

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Parliamentary BriefingJul 04

Parliamentary Briefing

Exhibition of sites/ ForumsOct 05-

Mar 06

Draft criteria released for

commentApr/May 04

GIS workshops / site

identification with 3C

verification Sept – Dec 04

3C/TAP auditing of

sites(Approx 8 may meet criteria)

Jan-June 05

3C/TAP finalise criteriaMay 04

Cabinet announces and invites successful

proponents to enter approvals processes.

Technical Advisory Panel (TAP)

Core Consultative Committee on Waste (3C)

HAZARDOUS/INDUSTRIAL WASTE PRECINCT(S) CO-ORDINATING GROUP

STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT PROGRAM TO ESTABLISH NEW ANDBETTER WASTE TREATMENT FACILITIES IN WA

Government consultation with Industry

and 3C on precinct model ¹ Nov05-May06

Government to call for industry to put forward bids to establish

facilities.5

Exhibition of proposals7

3C Advice to Cabinet9

Parliamentary BriefingOutput: Precinct

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3C consultation with broader

stakeholders on proposed Precinct

Model ²June 06

3C advice to Cabinet Aug 06

We are here


June 2006

Simplified Process Diagram

Criteria Development

Site nominations and site short listing

Public exhibition of sites

Government’s Precinct Model Development

Cabinet Endorsement of

Sites and Precinct Model

Bids for Companies to

Enter Precinct(s)


Purpose of Tonight’s Session

To examine element 3 of the program through discussing issues identified:

• in Government’s Discussion Paper;

• by the 3C; and

• everyone here

June 2006


Government Discussion Paper on a Precinct Management Model

• The discussion paper is not a 3C paper.

• It has been prepared by the Government Coordinating Group in response to the requirement to provide a draft legislative/regulatory model on how the 3C recommendations and related Government decisions could be implemented.

• 3C’s role is to facilitate broader stakeholder discussion on a draft model.

• The paper outlines eight objectives for new and/or amended legislation for establishing and regulating precincts.

June 2006


June 2006

Eight Legislative Objectives

1. Allow for the creation of designated precincts and buffer zones and ensure these are protected for the long term

2. Allow for a process to create further precincts for hazardous wastes in the future

3. Describe the process to define hazardous waste

4. Allow for the creation of mechanisms that enforce and administer the treatment of these hazardous wastes in precincts. This is to be based on the 3C draft Decision Tree model


June 20065 November 2005

Legislative Objectives (cont.)

5. Allow for a process to identify hazardous waste treatments that are unacceptable for precincts

6. Allow for the creation of a mechanism to grant exemptions to the need to treat a waste in a precinct (under regulation)

7. Prohibit treatment of hazardous wastes in all areas of Western Australia except those defined under the 3C draft Decision Tree model

8. Provide the Ministerial powers to set timeframes for existing treatment companies to comply with the above

June 2006


Initial 3C Views

• “The 3C agreed to write to the Coordinating Group as soon as possible to recommend that the document be amended to include more details:

- what new legislation or amended legislation will there be?

- what are the practicalities and implications of these?

- what are the timeframes?”


June 2006

Draft 3C Position on Legislation/Regulation

The following elements be enshrined in legislation:

• Protection of essential 3km buffer from sensitive land uses

• Prohibiting incineration and landfilling within precincts (and their buffers)

• Definition of hazardous waste (based on EU Directive and Catalogue)

• Requiring hazardous waste to be treated in precincts (within Decision Tree Framework)…..cont


June 2006

Draft 3C Position on Legislation/Regulation (cont.)

• The Technology Suitability Criteria for facilities treating hazardous waste

• The Site Selection Criteria to apply to any future precincts

• The requirement for a community monitoring committee (but not composition or detailed terms of reference)

• Need mechanisms to ensure all hazardous waste treatment proposals are referred to the appropriate Decision Making Authority


June 2006

Legislation Options

• Primarily based on new legislation or amended legislation?

• Which (if either) may be more robust, easier to implement and quicker to put in place?

• Why?


June 2006

Comments please on:

1. Government Objectives

2. 3C Draft Positions

3. Any other legislative/regulatory/management matters


June 2006

Further comments by Friday 7 July to:

• Email: [email protected]• Fax: (08) 6364 6532• Mail: 3C

PO Box K822 PERTH WA 6842

Stakeholder Involvement Program to Establish New and Better Hazardous Waste Treatment Facilities in WA 3c web: telephone: (08) 6364 7019.

Documents

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c paper

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hazardous waste treatments

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