Paragraph 3 Emissions: waterF1

(1)

SEPA must ensure that an authorisation for a titanium dioxide activity includes such conditions as it considers appropriate to ensure that emissions into water from installations do not exceed the emission limit values set out in this paragraph.

(2)

Emissions from installations using the sulphate process, as an annual average, must not exceed 550 kilograms of sulphate per tonne of titanium dioxide produced.

(3)

Emissions from installations using the chloride process, as an annual average must not exceed—

(a)

130 kilograms of chloride per tonne of titanium dioxide produced using neutral rutile,

(b)

228 kilograms of chloride per tonne of titanium dioxide produced using synthetic rutile,

(c)

330 kilograms of chloride per tonne of titanium dioxide produced using slag unless sub-paragraph (d) applies,

(d)

this sub-paragraph applies where installations discharge waste into salt water (estuarine, coastal, open sea),

(e)

where sub-paragraph (d) applies, installations may be subject to an emission limit value of 450 kilograms of chloride per tonne of titanium dioxide produced using slag.

(4)

For installations using—

(a)

the chloride process, and

(b)

more than one type of ore,

the emissions limit values in sub-paragraph (3) apply in proportion to the quantity of ores used.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 24 inserted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 15 (with sch. 23)