Publication Date: Monday, 30 October 2000

Notice Code: 1803

Environmental Protection

BASF plc

PUBLIC NOTICE OF AN APPLICATION MADE UNDER SECTION 11 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1990 PART I

INTEGRATED POLLUTION CONTROL

Notice is hereby given that BASF plc has applied to the Environment Agency for an Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) authorisation to operate a crude acetonitrile tanker unloading facility at its Seal Sands site in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees.
Information relating to the above IPC application for authorisation to operate the gasification process is held in registers at the following locations:
The Environment Agency, Coverdale House, Aviator Court, Amy Johnson Way, Clifton Moor, York YO30 4GZ and Environmental Services Department, Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council, 16 Church Road, Stockton-on-Tees TS18 1TY.
Members of the public can inspect these registers, free of charge, at the above stated addresses during normal office hours. In addition, members of the public who wish to obtain a copy of the relevant information contained in the registers can do so upon the payment of a reasonable charge to cover the costs of copying.
Any objections to the above IPC application should be made in writing to the Environment Agency, Swan House, Merchants Wharf, Westpoint Road, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6BP, within 28 days from the date of this public notice.
Any such objections or representations will be entered into a public register unless the person making them requests in writing that they should not be so placed. If there is such a request, the register will only include a statement that there has been a request.
In this case there will be included in the register a statement indicating only that representations have been made which have been the subject of such a request.

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