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WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1990

JOINT SURVEY ON INDOOR RADON LEVEL

AN EXTENSIVE SURVEY ON INDOOR RADON LEVEL IS JOINTLY BY THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DEPARTMENT # UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG.

BEING CONDUCTED (EPD) AND THE

ENVIRONMENT AND THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY FOR PLANNING, LANDS, MR TONY EASON, IN A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON SAI-CHEONG IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).

THIS SURVEY

SOMB WILL COVER

1,500

SITES

MAN

IN DOMESTIC, COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND SCHOOL PREMISES AND RESULTS ARE EXPECTED TO BE READY BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.

COLLABORATING WITH TERTIARY MR EASON SAID THE EPD WAS ALSO INSTITUTIONS TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS RADON CONTROL MEASSURES.

HAVE BEEN "WHEN THE RESULTS OF THE LATEST SURVEY AND STUDIES

ON ASSESSED, THE GOVERNMENT INTENDS TO ISSUE AN INFORMATION PAMPHLET

TI HE SAID. MEASURES TO MITIGATE RADON LEVELS IN BUILDINGS IN HONG KONG,

THE PAMPHLET IS LIKELY TO BE ISSUED TO THE PUBLIC YEAR, HE ADDED.

EARLY NEXT

POSTAL PLANNING CRITERIA SERVE RESIDENTS WELL

THE LATEST REVIEW IN JANUARY LAST YEAR CONCLUDED EXISTING PLANNING STANDARDS FOR POST OFFICE PROVISION, APPLIED, SERVE THE COMMUNITY WELL, THE SECRETARY FOR SERVICES, MR GORDON SIU, SAID.

THAT THE FLEXIBLY ECONOMIC

WITHIN THESE CRITERIA THERE ARE WELL-ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES ENSURING THAT SHIFTS IN POPULATION AND NEW RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ARE TAKEN FULLY INTO ACCOUNT IN THE PLANNING OF NEW POST OFFICES, SAID.

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TO

LAST YEAR, FOR INSTANCE, FOUR NEW POST OFFICES WERE OPENED SERVE NEW TOWN DEVELOPMENTS IN SHA TIN, TAI PO, TSUEN WAN AND TIN SHUI WAI.

GIVING A WRITTEN REPLY TO A QUESTION BY THE HON ERIC LI IN THE WE PLAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY), MR SIU SAID: "IN 1993, TO OPEN NEW POST OFFICES WHICH WILL SERVE THE MA ON SHAN AND TSEUNG KWAN O AREAS.

AS A GENERAL GUIDE, POST OFFICES ARE TO BE PROVIDED SO THAT LARGE GROUPS OF POPULATION IN URBAN AREAS

TO CAN HAVE ACCESS FACILITIES WITHIN 0.8 KILOMETRES FROM WHERE THEY LIVE OR WORK. FOR RURAL AREAS THE DISTANCE IS 3.2 KILOMETRES.

OTHER FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED INCLUDE POPULATION IN THE PROPOSED CATCHMENT AREAS WHICH SHOULD NORMALLY NOT BE LESS THAN 30,000 PERSONS; THE NATURE OF THE TERRAIN OVER WHICH CUSTOMERS MUST TRAVEL: PHYSICAL FEATURES SUCH AS BUSY MAIN ROADS AND PARTICULAR SOCIAL OR SPECIAL REQUIREMENT FOR POSTAL SERVICES.

NEEDS

/HOWEVER, MR