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1. Local Authority Pollution Prevention and Control : Pollution from certain industrial activities is regulated either by local authorities or by the Environment Agency. Pollution Prevention and Control (PPC) is a regulatory regime for controlling pollution from certain industrial activities. From 6 April 2008 it was incorporated into the framework of the Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR). Local authorities regulate the comparatively less polluting Part A(2) activities (multi-media regulation) and the lesser polluting Part B activities (these are regulated for emissions to air only). Further information is available from the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs, www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/industrial/eu-international/ippc/
2. Cooling Towers and Evaporative Condensers : Wet cooling systems pose the most serious risk from outbreaks of legionnaires' disease if not properly looked after. Both the local authority and Health and Safety Executive will undertake a number of visits to premises to ensure standards are met and will take enforcement action where appropriate. The Notification of Cooling Tower and Evaporative Condensers Regulations 1992 require a person who has, to any extent, control of non-domestic premises to ensure that no notifiable device is situated on the premises unless information specified in the Schedule to the Regulations has been notified in writing to the local authority in whose area the premises are situated (regulation 3(1)). A separate provision is made in respect of information to be notified by a manufacturer pursuant to the requirement in regulation 3(1)(regulation 3(2)). Changes to the information required to be notified under regulation 3(1) or (2) must be notified within one month after their occurrence (regulation 3(3)). Where a device ceases to be, and is no longer intended to remain, a notifiable device that fact must be notified to the local authority concerned as soon as reasonably practicable after the cessation (regulation 3(4)). The requirement in regulation 3(4) of these Regulations will not apply where the operation of a notifiable device is suspended for the purpose of maintenance or by reason of seasonal shutdown (regulation 3(5)).
