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apply for a permit for waste disposal facilities

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Procedure

            			
Newly planned facility 

If a facility is to be newly constructed and operated and this is listed as a facility in the Fourth Ordinance on the Implementation of the Federal Immission Control Act, a licensing procedure is required. In this process, the types of facilities are described and the performance thresholds and facility sizes are defined, which are decisive for the waste disposal facilities requiring a permit. If, for example, a certain quantity threshold or plant size is not exceeded, a permit is not required under the BImSchG. 

Modification of a facility 

Any modification to a facility that may have an impact on protected goods such as humans, animals, plants, water or soil requires notification or approval. If it is a "substantial" change in the sense of § 16 BImSchG, a corresponding approval procedure is required. Other changes must be notified in writing by the operator to the competent authority at least one month before the start of the measure in accordance with § 15 BImSchG. Due to the difficulty in interpreting whether and with what intensity there may be effects on objects of protection as a result of planned changes and whether a significant change is involved, contact should always be made in advance with the competent authority (see "Service"). 

If a plant is to be operated in accordance with the Industrial Emissions Directive in which relevant hazardous substances are used, produced or released, an initial status report must be submitted if and to the extent that pollution of the soil and or groundwater on the plant site by the relevant hazardous substances is possible (§ 10 Paragraph 1a BImSchG). 

Partial approval, early start, preliminary decision 

These procedures are subject to special requirements, which are regulated in §§ 8 to 9 of the BImSchG.  

For further information on the possibilities of these types of procedure, please contact the responsible contact persons (see "Service"). 

The 4th BImSchV provides for public participation in certain licensing procedures. This includes, among other things, the public display of the application documents and the possibility of raising objections. In other cases, an environmental impact assessment may have to be carried out.

			
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