Publications

Upgrade works on Coleraine to Londonderry railway line

A plan of events for Red Squirrel week in October 2012

This page contains the accounts for OFMDFM for the financial year ended 31 March 2012.

Roads Service (now DfI Roads) asked a set of customer satisfaction questions on the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency's omnibus survey.

Advice in relation to Safety, Quality and Standards for 2011-2012

Paragraph 2 allows the use, under a permit under The Pollution Prevention and Control (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2003, of waste glass as part of an activity within Part B of section 3.3 (the manufacture of glass and glass fibre) of Part 1, Schedule 1 to the 2003 Regulation

Paragraph 4 allows the operation, under a permit under the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 of a scrap metal furnace with a holding capacity of less than 25 tonnes and the loading or unloading of the furnace in connection with its operation.

Specific guidance in relation to applying for a Paragraph 5 simple exemption.

Paragraph 6 allows the cleaning, washing, spraying or coating of waste consisting of packaging or containers, for the purpose of reuse. 

Specific guidance in relation to applying for a Paragraph 7 simple exemption

Paragraph 16 allows the beneficial use of waste if it is put to that use without further treatment and, that use of the waste does not involve its disposal. 

Paragraph 20 allows the laundering or otherwise cleaning of waste textiles with a view to their recovery or reuse.  

Paragraph 21 allows the chipping, shredding, cutting or pulverising of waste plant matter, or the sorting and baling of sawdust or wood shavings. 

Paragraph 22 allows the recovery of silver from wastes produced in connection with printing or photographic processing. 

Paragraph 24 allows the crushing, grinding, or other size reduction of waste bricks, tiles and concrete, under a permit granted under the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003. 

Paragraph 26 allows the recovery, or disposal of waste at the place where it is produced, as an integral part of the process that produces it. It also allows the storage at the place where it is produced, of waste which is intended to be so recovered or disposed of.

Paragraph 27 allows baling, compacting, crushing, shredding or pulverising of waste at the place where it is produced. 

The disposal of waste at the place where it is produced, by the person producing it, by burning it in an incinerator which has a net rated thermal input1 of less than 0.3 megawatt if the total amount of waste burned does not exceed 50 kg per hour. 

Paragraph 30 allows the burning of Plant Tissue1 waste on land in the open and the storage of this waste on land where it is to be burned pending it’s burning. 

Paragraph 31 allows the discharge of waste onto the track from a sanitary convenience or sink forming part of a vehicle used for the carriage of passengers on the railway.