National Environmental Management: Air Quality Act, 2004 (Act No. 39 of 2004)Chapter 4 : Air Quality Management MeasuresPart 5 : Other measures29. Pollution prevention plans |
| (a) | declare any substance contributing to air pollution as a priority air pollutant; and |
| (b) | require persons falling within a category specified in the notice to prepare, submit to the Minister or MEC for approval, and implement pollution prevention plans in respect of a substance declared as a priority air pollutant in terms of paragraph (a). |
| (2) | The Minister or MEC may, by written notice to a person conducting a listed activity which involves the emission of a substance declared as a priority air pollutant, require that person to prepare, submit to the Minister or MEC for approval and implement a pollution prevention plan, whether or not that person falls within a category specified in terms of subsection (1)(b). |
| (3) | Pollution prevention plans must comply with such requirements as may be prescribed by the Minister or MEC. |
| (4) | A notice contemplated in subsection (1)(b) or (2) must contain a requirement that the person indicated in the notice monitors, evaluates and reports on the implementation of the pollution prevention plan that has been approved in terms of subsection (1) or (2). |
[Subsection (4) inserted by section 4 of Act No. 20 of 2014]