26 MARCH 2010 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 34 969

Call for the Provision of Data (Production of Chlorine Gas and Sodium Hydroxide (Caustic Soda) Solution) Notice 2010

Pursuant to section 161D of the Climate Change Response Act 2002, I, Hon Nick Smith, Minister for Climate Change Issues, give the following notice requiring information on the Production of Chlorine Gas and Sodium Hydroxide (Caustic Soda) Solution to determine the emissions-intensity of this activity and the allocative baseline or baselines of the products of the activity.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as the Call for the Provision of Data (Production of Chlorine Gas and Sodium Hydroxide (Caustic Soda) Solution) Notice 2010.

(2) This notice takes effect from and including 26 March 2010.

2. Interpretation—(1) Unless the context otherwise requires:

Act means the Climate Change Response Act 2002.

Activity outputs are the outputs used for the calculation of the revenue of the activity and mean the outputs specified in clauses 2(2)(a) and (b) of this notice.

Bases of preparation means the form available at
www.climatechange.govt.nz/industrialallocation

Data collection rules means the methodologies for data collection specified in Schedule 1 of this notice.

Declaration means the statement of declaration located at
www.climatechange.govt.nz/industrialallocation

Excluded emissions means the emissions specified in Schedule 3 of this notice.

Financial years means the financial years beginning on 1 July and ending on 30 June for each of the periods 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 during which the person carried out the activity.

Included emissions means the emissions specified in Schedule 2 of this notice from the sources listed in Emissions Rule 1 of Schedule 1.

Product (basis of allocation) means the total tonnes of 100 per cent equivalent dry weight sodium hydroxide (NaOH, caustic soda) that are:
(a) produced by carrying on the activity;
(b) not recycled back into the activity; and
(c) of saleable quality.

Specified Template means the table template located at
www.climatechange.govt.nz/industrialallocation

(2) Activity means the production of chlorine gas and sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) solution by the chemical transformation of sodium chloride solution (NaCl(aq), brine) to chlorine (Cl₂(l,g)) and sodium hydroxide solution (NaOH(aq), caustic soda solution) where the sodium hydroxide (NaOH) production is 1:1.13 times the production of chlorine (Cl₂) by mass, where the outputs include:
(a) chlorine (Cl₂(l,g)); and
(b) sodium hydroxide solution (NaOH(aq), caustic soda solution), which must have a concentration of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) equal to or greater than 14 per cent with respect to mass.

The chemical reaction involved in this chemical transformation is:

2NaCl(aq) + 2H₂O(l) → 2NaOH(aq) + Cl₂(g) + H₂(g)

(3) Saleable has its ordinary meaning as understood by participants in the relevant market, subject to subclauses (a) to (d):

(a) Saleable is an output produced to a level at which it would ordinarily be considered by participants in the relevant market:
(i) to be the output of the process; and
(ii) to have a commercial value as that output.

(b) A sub-standard product which is discarded is taken not to be saleable or of saleable quality.

(c) An output which is recycled back while carrying out the activity as defined to produce a new output is not saleable or of saleable quality.