23 NOVEMBER 2006 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 147 4261

Environmental Risk

Management Authority

Hazardous Substances and New Organisms

Act 1996

Notice of Approval of Hazardous Substances in Special Emergency

Pursuant to section 49H of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 ("HSNO Act"), the Environmental Risk Management Authority hereby gives notice that on 10 November 2006, it approved an application for the aerial use of Engage Ant Bait and Distance Ant Bait in a special emergency declared under section 49B of the HSNO Act.

The special emergency to which the approval relates is the incursion of the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) at Whirinaki as declared by the Minister for Biosecurity on 30 October 2006.

The application was approved pursuant to section 49F of the HSNO Act, with the following controls:

• The substances may only be used if the special emergency is managed in accordance with the treatment management plan and application specified by the applicant;
• Distance Ant Bait shall not be aerially applied within a 50 metre buffer zone around waterways;
• the approval takes effect on the date of this decision and expires on 30 June 2007; and
• on expiry of this approval, the Engage Ant Bait and Distance Ant Bait must not be used by aerial methods, unless, before the expiry of the approval, the applicant has, under any other provision of the Act, been granted an approval.

Copies of the approval and the application can be inspected free of charge or purchased at the Wellington office of ERMA New Zealand, Level One, BP House, 20 Customhouse Quay, Wellington, or can be downloaded from the ERMA New Zealand web site:

www.ermanz.govt.nz

Dated at Auckland this 10th day of November 2006.

TONY HAGGERTY, Chair, Hazardous Substances Standing Committee, Environmental Risk Management Authority.

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Notice of Intention to Apply for Approval of Code of Practice

Pursuant to section 79 of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996, the Environmental Risk Management Authority gives notice that Greentank Limited intends to apply for the approval of the Code of Practice for the Design and Construction of Above Ground Stationary Tanks to ULC-ORD-C80.1-2000.

This code specifies requirements for fibreglass above ground stationary tanks for the storage of up to 1200 litres of diesel and low flash point diesel.

Under clause 8 (2) (h) of Schedule 8 to the Hazardous Substances (Dangerous Goods and Scheduled Toxic Substances) Transfer Notice 2004, above ground stationary tanks for hazardous liquids must be designed and constructed in accordance with one of the Standards listed in paragraphs 8 (2) (a)–(g) of that Schedule or a code of practice approved by the Authority under section 79 of the Act.

Written submissions in relation to the approval of this code can be made by mail, facsimile or email to the contacts below.

Submissions close on 21 December 2006.

A copy of the code is available from the Wellington office of ERMA New Zealand Level One, BP House, 20 Customhouse Quay, Wellington, and can be inspected at that office.

It is also available on the ERMA New Zealand web site:

www.ermanz.govt.nz

The ULC standard (ULC-ORD-C80.1-2000) referenced in the code is available for purchase from the Underwriters’ Laboratory of Canada web site:

www.ulc.ca.

ROB FORLONG, Chief Executive, ERMA New Zealand.
Code of Practice Submissions: Hazardous Substances Group, ERMA New Zealand, P.O. Box 131, Wellington. Facsimile: (04) 914 0433. Email: dginfo@ermanz.govt.nz

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Land Transport New Zealand

Land Transport Act 1998

**Exemption From Specified Requirement of Land Transport Rule: Frontal Impact 2001***

Pursuant to section 166 (1) of the Land Transport Act 1998 ("the Act") and being satisfied on the matters in section 166 (2) of the Act, and under delegated authority, I, Donald Norman Hutchinson, Acting Manager Vehicles, Land Transport New Zealand, exempt each vehicle identified in Schedule 1 from the requirement to comply with a version of one of the approved vehicle standards specified in 2.3 (2) of Land Transport Rule: Frontal Impact 2001.

Schedule 1
Vehicle Details

The vehicle is a Toyota Cavalier of model code TJG00 and of model year 1997 or 1998, this being identified by the fact that the 10th character of the manufacturer’s Vehicle Identification Number is respectively V (for 1997) or W (for 1998).

Dated at Wellington this 23rd day of November 2006.

DONALD NORMAN HUTCHINSON, Acting Manager Vehicles, Land Transport New Zealand.

This notice revokes and replaces the one published in the New Zealand Gazette, 2 November 2006, No. 126, page 3703.

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Maritime New Zealand

Maritime Transport Act 1994

Notice of Exemption from Rule 45.4 (1) and (2)

I, Bruce John Maroc, Deputy Director of Monitoring and Compliance, Maritime New Zealand, being satisfied that the granting of this exemption will not breach