ENVIRONMENT AGENCY

PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF AN APPLICATION MADE UNDER SECTION 6 OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1990, PART 1

Integrated Pollution Control

Notice is hereby given that Pfizer Ltd., has applied to the Secretary of State for the Environment for an Integrated Pollution Control (IPC) authorisation to operate a process for the manufacture and use of organic chemicals at Ramsgate Road, Sandwich, Kent, in the district of Dover in the county of Kent.   Pfizer is a multi-national company operating processes which includes the manufacture of bulk pharmaceutical chemicals by organic synthesis.   Information relating to the above IPC application for authorisation to operate an extension to the general purpose organic synthesis plant, building 302, is held in registers at The Environment Agency, Public Register, Guildbourne House, Chatsworth Road, Worthing BN11 1LD and at the Public Register, Dover District Council, Council Offices, Honeywood Road, Whitfield, Dover CT16 3PG.   Members of the public can inspect these registers, free of charge, at the above stated addresses during normal office hours. In addition, members of the public who wish to obtain a copy of the relevant information contained in the registers can do so upon the payment of a reasonable charge to cover the costs of copying.   Any objections or representations to the above IPC application should be made in writing to the Environment Agency, Public Register, Guildbourne House, Chatsworth Road, Worthing BN11 1LD, within 28 days from the date of this public notice.   Any such objections or representations will be entered into a public register unless the person making them requests in writing that they should not be so placed. If there is such a request, the register will only include a statement that there had been a request.   In this case there will be included in the register a statement indicating only that representations have been made which have been the subject of such a request.