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Paragraph 1 Interpretation

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In this Schedule, “background quantity” means, in relation to the release of a substance resulting from an activity, such quantity of that substance as is present in—

(a)

water supplied to the site where the activity is carried on;

(b)

water abstracted for use in the activity; and

(c)

precipitation onto the site on which the activity is carried on.