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MINISTER
QUESTION NO. 955 FOR WRITTEN REPLY: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
A draft reply to Mrs S V Kalyan (DA) to the above-mentioned question is
enclosed for your consideration.
Ms Nosipho Ngcaba
DIRECTOR-GENERAL
DATE:
DRAFT REPLY APPROVED/AMENDED
MRS B E E MOLEWA, MP
MINISTER OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
DATE:
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
(For written reply)
QUESTION NO. 955
INTERNAL QUESTION PAPER NO. 8 NW1073E
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 18 March 2011
Mrs S V Kalyan (DA) to ask the Minister of Water and Environmental Affairs:
(1) (a) Why has the atmospheric emission licence of a certain company
(name furnished) for its Howden RD700 incinerator at its Roodepoort
treatment facility not been issued, (b) when did the company first
apply for this licence and (c) when is it envisaged that such licence
will be issued;
(2) why did her department not issue the company with the licence for the
new incinerator before the company was expected to close its other two
incinerators at the companyâs Roodepoort facility which affected the
ability of various medical waste service providers to have their
collected health care risk waste treated at the facility?
Mrs S V Kalyan (DA)
SECRETARY TO PARLIAMENT
HANSARD
PAPERS OFFICE
PRESS
955. THE MINISTER OF WATER AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS ANSWERS:
The Department of Environmental Affairs is no longer the responsible
licencing authority. On 1 April 2010, the responsibility for atmospheric
emission licencing was handed over to District and Metropolitan
Municipalities when the National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act
(No 39 of 2004) was fully brought into effect. The relevant licencing
authority in this case would be the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan
Municipality and we suggest that the question is referred accordingly.
Even-though the Department is no longer a licensing authority, this issue
was brought to the Departmentâs attention and the City of Johannesburg
Metropolitan was supported and the license was issued on
10 March 2011.
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