NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO VARY A PERMIT RECEIVED UNDER THE
HAZARDOUS WASTE (REGULATION OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS) ACT 1989
Pursuant to Section 33 of the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989, notice is given that Caltex Australia Pty Ltd, 2 Market Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, has submitted an application to vary a permit, notice of which was published on 19 June 2013 in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette, No GN 24.
The application relates to the export of up to 400 tonnes of spent precious metal catalysts from Caltex’s facilities in New South Wales (Caltex Refineries (NSW) Pty Ltd, 2 Solander Street, Kurnell 2231) and Queensland (Caltex Refineries (QLD) Pty Ltd, South Street, Lytton 4178) to Sabin Metal West Corporation (Sabin), 15-12th Avenue East, Williston, North Dakota, 58802, in the United States of America. The material is destined for recovery operation R8 - Recovery of components from catalysts.
The application, as varied, proposes that the waste will be transported by road from Caltex’s facilities and will leave Australia by ship from New South Wales and Queensland. The waste will travel through Melbourne and Adelaide before exiting Australia, and will then transit through Auckland in New Zealand, Suva in Fiji, and Honolulu and Oakland in the United States of America, before arriving at the port of Tacoma, Washington in the United States of America. The waste will be transported by road from the port of Tacoma, Washington to the Sabin facility.
The transboundary movement would take place in up to twenty-four (24) shipments during the time period stated in the permit, if granted.
Andrew McNee
Assistant Secretary
Environment Protection Branch
5 July 2013