Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00551:schedule:3:p25
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00551
Segment Type: schedule
Provision Reference: sch 3 (pt 25/40)
Character Range: 176078–178908

area by the generator of such wastes, unless incinerated, autoclaved or otherwise treated to be made sterile:
    (a) residues of carcasses of imported animals;
    (b) laboratory culture of micro‑organisms and plant pathogens; and
    (c) introduced avian products.
ARTICLE 3
WASTE DISPOSAL BY INCINERATION
1. Subject to paragraph 2 below, combustible wastes, other than those referred to in Article 2 (1), which are not removed from the Antarctic Treaty area shall be burnt in incinerators which to the maximum extent practicable reduce harmful emissions. Any emission standards and equipment guidelines which may be recommended by, inter alia, the Committee and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research shall be taken into account. The solid residue of such incineration shall be removed from the Antarctic Treaty area.
2. All open burning of wastes shall be phased out as soon as practicable, but no later than the end of the 1998/1999 season. Pending the completion of such phase‑out, when it is necessary to dispose of wastes by open burning, allowance shall be made for the wind direction and speed and the type of wastes to be burnt to limit particulate deposition and to avoid such deposition over areas of special biological, scientific, historic, aesthetic or wilderness significance including, in particular, areas accorded protection under the Antarctic Treaty.
ARTICLE 4
OTHER WASTE DISPOSAL ON LAND
1. Wastes not removed or disposed of in accordance with Articles 2 and 3 shall not be disposed of onto ice‑free areas or into fresh water systems.
2. Sewage, domestic liquid wastes and other liquid wastes not removed from the Antarctic Treaty area in accordance with Article 2, shall, to the maximum extent practicable, not be disposed of onto sea ice, ice shelves or the grounded ice‑sheet, provided that such wastes which are generated by stations located inland on ice shelves or on the grounded ice‑sheet may be disposed of in deep ice pits where such disposal is the only practicable option. Such pits shall not be located on known ice‑flow lines which terminate at ice‑free areas or in areas of high ablation.
3. Wastes generated at field camps shall, to the maximum extent practicable, be removed by the generator of such wastes to supporting stations or ships for disposal in accordance with this Annex.
ARTICLE 5
DISPOSAL OF WASTE IN THE SEA
1. Sewage and domestic liquid wastes may be discharged directly into the sea, taking into account the assimilative capacity of the receiving marine environment and provided that:
    (a) such discharge is located, wherever practicable, where conditions exist for initial dilution and rapid dispersal; and
    (b) large quantities of such wastes (generated in a station where the average weekly occupancy over the austral summer is approximately 30 individuals