EIA Study Brief No.
ESB-104/2002
June 2002
Environmental
Impact Assessment Ordinance (Cap. 499),
Section
5(7)
Environmental
Impact Assessment Study Brief No. ESB-104/2002
(hereinafter known as
the "Project")
Name
of Applicant : Waste
Facilities Business Unit,
Environmental
Protection Department, The Government of the HKSAR
(hereinafter known as
the "Applicant")
1. BACKGROUND
1.1 An application (No. ESB-104/2002)
for an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study brief under section 5(1) of
the Environmental Impact Assessment Ordinance (EIAO) was submitted by the
Applicant on 13 May 2002 with a project profile (No. PP-169/2002) (the Project
Profile).
1.2
The
proposed Project is to develop a Recovery Park of size 20 hectare at the
reclaimed land in Tuen Mun Area 38. The site location is shown in Figure 1 and
Figure 2 in the Project Profile, reproduced in Appendix A. The development and
operation of the proposed Project will comprise the following :-
(a)
provision
of infrastructure including marine loading/unloading areas, roads, drains,
sewers, utilities, etc;
(b)
construction
of buildings and facilities for accommodating office and recycling operations;
(c)
provision
of on-site wastewater treatment facility or pumping facility for transmitting
wastewater to other government facilities for treatment;
(d)
allocation
of sites for waste recyclers for construction of recycling facilities;
(e)
delivery
and unloading of recyclable materials, recycling operations and loading and
transportation of finished products by road and sea;
(f)
maintenance
of infrastructure, office buildings, recycling facilities, etc; and
(g)
environmental
monitoring and audit as well as implementation of mitigation measures.
1.3 Pursuant
to section 5(7)(a) of the EIAO, the Director of Environmental Protection (the
Director) issues this EIA study brief to the Applicant to carry out an EIA
study.