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FIRST SCHEDULE
Criteria as to the Grant of Permits for Dumping
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Section 5
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A—Characteristics and composition of the substance or material
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1. Amount and composition.
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2. Form, e.g. solid, sludge, liquid.
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3. Properties: physical (especially solubility, specific gravity and density), chemical and biochemical (e.g. oxygen demand, nutrients) and biological (e.g. presence of viruses, bacteria, yeasts, parasites, etc.).
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4. Toxicity.
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5. Persistence: physical, chemical and biological.
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6. Accumulation and biotransformation in biological materials or sediments.
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7. Chemical and physical changes of waste after release, including possible formation of new compounds.
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8. Probability of production of taints or other changes reducing marketability of resources (fish, shellfish, etc.).
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B—Characteristics of dumping site and method of deposit
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1. Location (e.g. co-ordinates of the dumping area, depth and distance from the coast), location in relation to other areas (e.g. amenity areas, spawning, nursery and fishing areas and exploitable resources).
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2. Rate of disposal per specific period (e.g. quantity per day, per week, per month).
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3. Methods of packaging and containment, if any.
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4. Initial dilution achieved by proposed method of release.
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5. Dispersal, horizontal transport and vertical mixing characteristics.
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6. Water characteristics (e.g. temperature, pH, salinity, oxygen indices of pollution-dissolved oxygen (DO), nitrate, nitrite, ammonia, phosphate and suspended matter).
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7. Bottom characteristics (e.g. topography, geochemical and geological characteristics and benthic macro-fauna).
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8. Existence and effects of current and previous discharges and dumping in the area (including accumulative effects).
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C—General considerations and conditions
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1. Interference with shipping, fishing, recreation, mineral extraction, desalination, fish and shellfish culture, areas of special scientific importance and other legitimate use of the sea.
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2. In applying these provisions the practical availability of alternative land-based methods of treatment, disposal or elimination, or of treatment to render the substance or material less harmful for dumping at sea, will be taken into consideration.
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