Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018: ​Proposed Standard Conditions for Registration level activities

This activity applies to sites which are carrying out activities such as bagging of cement, batching of ready-mix concrete and manufacture of concrete and other cement products.

Activity description

Blending cement in bulk or using cement in bulk other than at a construction site, including the bagging of cement and cement mixture, the batching of ready-mixed concrete and the manufacture of concrete blocks and other cement products.

Standard conditions

Below is the list of core and activity-specific standard conditions for blending or using cement in bulk.

1. Dust emissions must be minimised by:
   
   a. containment of dusty processes; and
   
   b. suppressing dust using water.
    
2. Aggregate and other potentially dusty materials must be:
   
   a. stored in storage bays; and
   
   b. not filled above the external wall height.
    
3. Packing of cement must be carried out in totally enclosed purpose-built plant fitted with dust arrestment equipment.
    
4. Arrestment equipment must be:
   
   a. designed to emit <50mg/m3 of dust;
   
   b. fully functional; and
   
   c. fitted with continuously indicative monitor which provides visual and/or audible notification when 75% of the design emission limit is reached.
    
5. Bulk cement must only be stored within the bulk cement silos.
    
6. Bulk cement silos must be fitted with functioning pressure relief valves.
    
7. Displaced air, resulting from delivery of bulk cement to silo, must either be:
   
   a. vented to suitable arrestment equipment; or
   
   b. back vented to the delivery tanker.
    
8. Silos and bulk containers must have an overfilling alarm.
    
9. When loading silos, deliveries must automatically stop where overfilling or over-pressurisation is identified.
    
10. All deliveries to silo from road vehicles must only be made using vehicles fitted with onboard pressure relief valves and filtration equipment.
     
11. Measures must be taken to prevent, or where that is not practicable, minimise:
    
    a. dust; and
    
    b. heat emissions
    
    from the authorised activities.
     
12. Dust from the authorised activities, which has a significant impact on the environment, people or property, must not be emitted beyond the boundary of the Authorised Place.
     
13. All reasonable steps must be taken to prevent discharges to the water environment resulting from dust suppression activities, which may cause harm to the water environment.
     
14. SEPA must be notified via its pollution hotline contact telephone number as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any case within 24 hours of identification of an event, of any of the following:
    
    a. an event that has caused or could cause adverse impact to the environment or harm to human health;
    
    b. an event that results, or could result, in an emission to the environment that is not authorised; and
    
    c. an event that has caused a breach of a condition of this authorisation.
    
    In this condition, the meaning of ‘event’ is as defined in the Interpretation of Terms of this authorisation.
     
15. All measures that are reasonably practicable must be taken to stop an event and to minimise its effect on the environment.
     
16. Within 14 days of an event a report must be submitted to SEPA detailing:
    
    a. the reason(s) for the event;
    
    b. the action(s) taken to stop the event and minimise the impacts; and
    
    c. the action(s) taken to prevent the event from reoccurring.
     
17. All information recorded, kept or submitted to SEPA in accordance with a condition of this authorisation must be:
    
    a. true and accurate;
    
    b. kept for a minimum of six years; and
    
    c. provided to SEPA upon request.