Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Ordinance, Cap.499

Application for Permission to Apply Directly for Environmental Permit

Application No.: DIR-069/2002

 

Project Title: Eastman Chemical Hong Kong Plant Decommissioning and

Dismantlement Project (at Yuen Long Industrial Estate)

 

Conditions Imposed under Sections 5(12) of the EIAO

for Permission to Apply Directly for Environmental Permit

 

1.          The project proponent shall conduct site investigation of potentially contaminated land on the application site. Before the commencement of the site investigation, the project proponent is required to submit for the Director of Environmental Protection¡¦s (DEP¡¦s) approval a Contamination Assessment Plan (CAP), which shall cover at least the transformer room, the dangerous goods stores, the underground oil tanks, the area for above ground acid and leach tanks, the underground solvent tank yard and the open air distillation plant/underground waste solvent tank, with the exact sampling locations and testing parameters of the soil and ground water.

 

2.          The project proponent shall carry out the site investigation in accordance with the approved Contamination Assessment Plan.

 

3.          The project proponent shall submit for DEP¡¦s agreement a Contamination Assessment Report (CAR).

 

4.          If contamination is confirmed by the Contamination Assessment Report, the project proponent is required to submit for DEP¡¦s approval a Remediation Assessment Plan (RAP).

 

5.          All the remediation actions identified in the approved Remediation Assessment Plan shall be fully and properly implemented.

6.          No dismantlement works, which may disturb the ground of the identified potentially contaminated sites, shall be carried out unless and until the Contamination Assessment Plan and Remediation Assessment Plan submitted are approved by DEP.

 

Note:

Under Section 17 of the EIAO, the applicant may appeal to the Appeal Board the Director¡¦s decision within 30 days of receipt of this reply.

 

Environmental Protection Department

September 2002