Notice

SG8 5HE, Johnson Matthey Plc: environmental permit application advertisement - EPR/BT7086IJ/V015

Published 14 August 2020

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Details of the application

The Environment Agency has received an application to vary an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 involving substantial change to a permit from Johnson Matthey Plc.

Application number

EPR/BT7086IJ/V015

Regulated facility type

S4.2 A(1)(c) – Manufacturing activity involving the use of any compound of – antimony, arsenic, beryllium, gallium, indium, lead, palladium, platinum, selenium, tellurium and thallium where the activity may result in the release into the air of any of those elements or compounds. S4.2 A(1)(1)(f) - An activity which is likely to result in the release into the air of any acid-forming oxide of nitrogen. Addition of a new scheduled activity to impregnate platinum unto zeolite and correction of an incorrect scheduled activity as the operator does not carry out a process that uses or recovers cadmium or mercury.

Regulated facility address

Royston Site
Orchard Road
Royston
Hertfordshire
SG8 5HE

The application contains a description of how the proposed change(s) may affect:

  • the installation
  • the materials, substances and energy it will use and generate
  • the conditions of its site
  • the source, nature and quantity of its foreseeable emissions and their significant effects on the environment
  • the proposed techniques for preventing, reducing, and monitoring its emissions and preventing and recovering waste
  • and an outline of the main alternatives, if any, considered

How to view and comment on the application

If you have any comments on the application send these by 14 September 2020.

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