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THE WAY FORWARD

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL LEGISLATION

4.14

During

additional air

parts of the

1989/90 Government

to

intends

declare

control zones to

cover all the remaining

territory and to establish the air quality

objectives in Table 1 for these zones. This will provide a

comprehensive

territory-wide

legislative

framework

control

measures

against which

can be developed and

imp le mented.

Stationary Sources

4.15

Several a mendments

legislation are

necessary to

to achieve

effective action

A mend ments

and

to the Air Pollution Control

enable more efficient and

the Air Quality Objectives.

include increased penalties for various offences

the sections dealing with the

significant changes to

directly to the

issue of abate ment notices, So as to relate such notices

attainment of the Air Quality Objectives.

The target is to intro du ce an a mendment Bill to the 1989/90

session of the Legislative Council.

4.16

high

use of

intro du ced

Existing regulations under the APCO prohibit the

su lp hur fuel oil in certain locations and were

to protect particularly sensitive areas, with

poor meteorological dispersion, from su lp hur dioxide

problems. However su lphur dioxide problems in other parts

of the territory rema in serious and the only effective way

of dealing with them is to extend the existing regulations

to prohibit the use of industrial fuel oil with a su lp hur

content greater than 0.5% by weight. Although this will

significantly higher fuel costs, it will

solve our su lphur

result

in

su bstantially

dioxide problem, so this

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