Activity
number
|
Activity description
|
Identification of
competent
authority
|
1
|
The construction of facilities or infrastructure, including , for –
| a) | the generation of electricity where— |
| i) | the electricity output is 20 megawatts or more; or |
| ii) | the elements of the facility cover a combined area in excess of 1 hectare; |
| b) | nuclear reaction including the production, enrichment, processing, reprocessing, storage or disposal of nuclear fuels, radioactive products and waste; |
| c) | the above ground storage of a dangerous good, including petrol, diesel, liquid petroleum gas or paraffin, in containers with a combined capacity of 1 000 cubic metres or more at any one location or site including the storage of one or more dangerous goods, in a tank farm; |
| d) | the refining of gas, oil and petroleum products; |
| e) | any process or activity which requires a permit or license in terms of legislation governing the generation or release of emissions, pollution, effluent or waste and which is not identified in Government Notice No. R. 386 of 2006; |
| f) | the recycling, re-use, handling, temporary storage or treatment of general waste with a throughput capacity of 50 tons or more daily average measured over a period of 30 days; |
| g) | the use, recycling, handling, treatment, storage or final disposal of hazardous waste; |
| h) | the manufacturing, storage or testing of explosives, including ammunition, but excluding licensed retail outlets and the legal end use of such explosives; |
| i) | the extraction or processing of natural gas excluding gas from landfill sites; |
| j) | the bulk transportation of dangerous goods using pipelines, funiculars or conveyors with a throughput capacity of 50 tons or 50 cubic metres or more per day; |
| k) | the landing, parking and maintenance of aircraft, excluding unpaved landing strips shorter than 1,4 kilometres in length, but including— |
| iv) | structures for engine testing; |
| l) | the transmission and distribution of above ground electricity with a capacity of 120 kilovolts or more; |
| m) | marine telecommunications; |
| n) | the transfer of 20 000 cubic metres or more water between water catchments or impoundments per day; |
| o) | the final disposal of general waste covering an area of 100 square metres or more or 200 cubic metres or more of airspace; |
| p) | the treatment of effluent, wastewater or sewage with an annual throughput capacity of 15 000 cubic metres or more; |
| q) | the incineration, burning, evaporation, thermal treatment, roasting or heat sterilisation of waste or effluent, including the cremation of human or animal tissue; |
| r) | the microbial deactivation, chemical sterilisation or non-thermal treatment of waste or effluent; |
| s) | rail transportation, excluding railway lines and sidings in industrial areas and underground railway lines in mines, but including – |
| t) | any purpose where fawns, playing fields or sports tracks covering an area of 10 hectares or more, will be established |
|
The competent authority in respect of the activities listed in this part of the schedule is the environmental authority in the province in which the activity is to be undertaken unless it is an application for an activity contemplated in section 24C(2) of the Act, in which case the competent authority is the Minister or an organ of state with delegated powers in terms of section 42(1) of the Act, as amended.
|
2
|
Any development activity, including associated structures and infrastructure, where the total area of the developed area is, or is intended to be, 20 hectares or more.
|
|
3
|
The construction of filling stations, including associated structures and infrastructure, or any other facility for the underground storage of a dangerous good, including petrol, diesel, liquid petroleum gas or paraffin.
|
|
4
|
The extraction of peat.
|
|
5
|
The route determination of roads and design of associated physical infrastructure, including roads that have not yet been built for which routes have been determined before the publication of this notice and which has not been authorised by a competent authority in terms of the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulations, 2006 made under section 24(5) of the Act and published in Government Notice No. R. 385 of 2006, where
| a) | it is a national road as defined in section 40 of the South African National Roads Agency Limited and National Roads Act, 1998 (Act No. 7 of 1998); |
| b) | it is a road administered by a provincial authority; |
| c) | the road reserve is wider than 30 metres; or |
| d) | the road will cater for more than one lane of traffic in both directions. |
|
|
6
|
The construction of a dam where the highest part of the dam wall, as measured from the outside toe of the wall to the highest part of the wall, is 5 metres or higher or where the high-water mark of the dam covers an area of 10 hectares or more.
|
|
7
|
Reconnaissance, exploration, production and mining as provided for in the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (Act No. 28 of 2002), as amended in respect of such permits and rights.
|
The competent authority for this part of the schedule is the Minister or an organ of state with delegated powers in terms of section 42(1) of the Act, as amended.
|
8
|
In relation to permits and rights granted in terms of 7 above, or any other right granted in terms of previous mineral legislation, the undertaking of any reconnaissance exploration, production or mining related activity or operation within a exploration, production or mining area, as defined in terms of section of 1 of the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act, 2002 (Act No. 28 of 2002).
|
9
|
Construction or earth moving activities in the sea or within 100 metres inland of the high water mark of the sea, excluding an activity listed in item 2 of Government Notice No. R. 386 of 2006 but including construction or earth moving activities in respect of—
| a) | facilities associated with the arrival and departure of vessels and the handling of cargo; |
| c) | inter- and sub-tidal structures for entrapment of sand; |
| e) | rock revetments and other stabilizing structures; |
| h) | structures for draining parts of the sea; |
|
The competent authority in respect of the activities listed in this part of the schedule is the environmental authority in the province in which the activity is to be undertaken unless it is an application for an activity contemplated in section 24C(2) of the Act, in which case the competent authority is the Minister or an organ of state with delegated powers in terms of section 42(1) of the Act, as amended.
|
10
|
Any process or activity identified in terms of section 53(1) of the National Environmental Management: Biodiversity Act, 2004 (Act No, of 2004).
|
