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SUBJECT

PURPOSE

PROGRESS MADE & PRESENT POSITION

FART II

Important Issues

NEXT QUARTER TARGETS

ENVIRONMENTAL

PROTECTION

Solid Waste Disposal

(ENV 25/53/01)

(a) To establish a controlled tip

for solid waste at Sai Tso Wan, near Kwun Tong, to commence operation by April 1977.

(b) To establish a solid waste baling plant adjacent to the controlled tip at Sai Tso Wan by July 1978.

(c) To establish a controlled tip

for solid waste for the Eastern New Territories.

(d) To establish a controlled tip

for solid waste for the Western

(a) A Housing Department licenced area

occupies the site. Clearance of this is in hand, and is expected to be completed by June 1977. Site formation work is to be completed by April 1977.

(a) Liaise with PWD/

HD/USD to ensure no delay in clearance and site formation, to enable the tip to commence operat, ion on schedule.

(b) Similar clearance problems as with (a) (b) Liaise with PWD/HD

above. Phased clearance is to make

the area available for site formation work by June 1977, and plant to commence operation by mid-1978.

(c) Due to impending closure of existing controlled tip at Shuen Wan near Tai Po, site for new tip must be made available for site formation by mid- 1977. A second site at Shuen Wan has been identified, and investigations are in hand.

USD to ensure no delay in clearance, construction and site formation, to enable the plant t commence on schedule

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(c) Agree site by March 1977 and ensure that planning proceeds on sched- ule. Borrow areas to be allocated by April 1977, so that site formation can commence in July 77.

(a) New site required, to handle additiona‡ (a) Agree site by April

solid waste to be generated in

1977 and ensure

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