Remediation notice

The authority is satisfied that the necessary remediation will take place without a remediation notice being served or... 

Although the general pattern for the remediation process is for the enforcing authority to be under a duty to act, the legislation carefully moves to a power to take action—and is therefore discretionary—in circumstances where the burden of paying for the work falls on the enforcing authority. So in the fourth of the cases outlined above where a remediation notice cannot be served the enforcing authority acquires a power to carry out the remediation itself. 

The difference is not so much in the content of the registers—the consultation paper on the proposed Section 143 registers18 also proposed that information on actual risk assessment and remediation that had been carried out would be included on the register as well as earlier site history—but on the point in the assessment process at which the sites get recorded. Section 143 would have cut in early, leading to a large number of false positive identifications if the focus is only on current problem sites . A Part IIA register entry, by contrast, is not made until a site has been both formally assessed and identified as contaminated land and either a remediation notice, statement or declaration has been produced or the site has been designated a special site. 

Of course regulatory authorities will have to develop systems for checking that the notice has been complied with, and for taking action if it has not. An authority can then confirm whether or not it proposes further action on a site such as a prosecution for non-compliance with a remediation notice or the service of a further remediation notice. The absence of further action implicitly carries with it some reassurance that the remediation has been carried out effectively. 

Even within the Part IIA system there are opportunities for voluntary action to replace formal enforcement action. There is, in particular, a requirement for enforcing authorities to consult those who will have to pay for remediation before serving any remediation notice. This consultation process is intended not only to enable technical issues to be resolved before there is any need to invoke formal appeals procedures, but also to give landowners and others the opportunity to... 

Don t work to instructions unless provided in the quality system procedures, product specification, production plan or in approved change notices or remedial action instructions or by the nonconformity review board. 

Having carried out an inspection of the works, the inspector has powers under Section 21 to serve an improvement notice if, in his opinion, a person is contravening one or more of the relevant statutory provisions, or has contravened one or more of those provisions in circumstances that make it likely that the contravention will continue or be repeated. The person concerned then has a duty to remedy the contravention or as the case may be, the matters occasioning it within such a period as may be specified in the notice. 

Issue a prohibition notice, if there is a risk of serious personal injury, to stop the work or process giving rise to this risk until remedial action specified by the inspector in the notice has been undertaken. This notice... 

Issue an improvement notice if there is a legal contravention of any statutory legislation relevant to the activity in that the activity cannot be continued until the remedial action specified in the notice is implemented. This notice can be served on the person who is deemed to be contravening the legal provision or who is responsible for the activity, whether they are an employer, employee or a supplier of equipment or materials. 

The most utilized and reliable process control in the petrofeum and related industries is human observation and surveillance. Local pressure and level gages along with control room instrumentation are provided so that human observation and actions can occur to maintain the proper process conditions. First stage process alarms are provided to alert operators to conditions that they may not have already noticed. Typically when secondary alarm stages are reached, computer control systems employed to automatically implement remedial actions to the process. 

It may not be amiss also to notice, that the author of the present volume first employed the hydriodate of potash, as a remedy for goitre, in the year 1816 after having previously ascertained, by experiments upon himself, that it was not poisonous in small doses, as had been... 

The liquid from 1 ounce of the root boiled in 1A pints of water simmered down to 1 pint, is taken four times daily in wineglass doses for many forms of skin trouble, noticeably boils, carbuncles and similar eruptions. Obstinate cases of eczema and even psoriasis have been known to yield to these decoctions of Burdock root, either alone or combined with other remedies. 

In combination with other remedies it is made up into cough medicines, and can be of service in pulmonary disorders generally. Skillfully compounded, slight alterative and tonic qualities are noticed. Wineglass doses are taken of a 1 ounce to 1 pint (reduced) decoction. 

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