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Development and approval of projects for a sanitary protection zone

A sanitary protection zone (SPZ) is a territory which separates enterprises, their separate structures with technological processes, which are sources of influence on the environment, from residential development, landscape-recreation zone, recreation zones, and resorts, and should ensure a reduction in the influence of all unfavorable production factors (chemical, physical, biological) to levels lower than standard ones (regulated by maximum allowable concentration, roughly permissible levels of influence, permissible levels, etc.).
A SPZ is a mandatory element of any object that is a source of adverse effects on the environment and the health of human beings. Today, sanitary protection zones in Ukraine are the main barrier that provides the necessary normative level of safety and health of the population in the area of ​​the location of the enterprise in its regular mode of operation. The current sanitary legislation directly encourages enterprise managers to develop SPZ projects (with the use of modern dust and gas purification equipment, the introduction of state-of-the-art production technologies, landscaping, the optimal location of sources of pollution on industrial sites, etc.), but plans of the country's leadership to tax the land of sanitary protection zones at the expense of enterprises, makes the issue of development and approving the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service Ukraine's optimal sizes of SPZ quite topical.

In addition to certain Sanitary Classification of enterprises and production "State Sanitary Rules of Planning and Development of Human Settlements of Parcel Particle Board № 173-96" (Section 5, Appendices Nos. 4-6) of the standard sizes of SPZ of certain enterprises of I-IV Sanitary Danger, new production and service facilities constantly arise, and they require the establishment of  sizes of a SPZ in each particular case with proper hygienic substantiation according to the developed design materials in line with Particleboard № 173-96 (item 8) at the level of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine.

The specialists of GORO legal provide the following list of services:

  • consultations on the development and harmonization of SPZ projects
  • preparation of set of necessary documents and their submission to the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine
  • Representation of clien interests at the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine
  • assistance in the development of the SPZ project
  • help in removing comments on the text and graphic materials that are being submitted for the project
  • assistance in developing an EIA project (environmental impact assessment) obtaining approval of the SPZ project
  • Appealing against a refusal to harmonize the SPZ project
  • reduction of standard sanitary-protective zones for industrial and service facilities of Class I-III sanitary danger through the commissions of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine to consider the above-mentioned issues with the corresponding approval of the results of examination at the level of the central apparatus of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine
  • establishing  the sizes of sanitary protection zones of objects of unfavorable influence of the production and service destination for which there is no standardized size of the SPZ of the current sanitary classification through the commissions of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine for consideration of the above issues with the corresponding approval of the results of examination at the level of the central apparatus of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine
  • reduction of standard sanitary-protective zones for industrial and service facilities of the IV-V class of sanitary danger with the corresponding approval of the results of examination at the level of the central apparatus of the State Sanitary-Epidemiological Service of Ukraine or regional Sanitary-Epidemiological Service
  • substantiation of the possibility and reduction of standard sizes of sanitary zones of underground and surface sources of drinking water supply, sanitary protective strips of water constructions and water pipes
  • substantiation and coordination at the level of the central apparatus of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine of the possibilities of placement and further operation of various non-residential premises (cafes, shops, transformer substations, etc.) built into residential buildings, including basements
  • substantiation and coordination at the level of the central office of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine of the possibilities for placing and further functioning of pharmacies, pharmacy points, trade establishments (at exceeding their permissible maximum areas), catering enterprises, etc., built into non-residential buildings
  • Justification and coordination at the level of the central apparatus of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine of reducing the dimensions of sanitary breaks for the objects of the motor transport infrastructure: gas stations, AGZP (setting of the sizes of the SPZ), service stations, garages, car washes, etc.
  • substantiation and coordination at the level of the central apparatus of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine of various technologies for carrying out economic activities related to the provision of commercial services, housing services
  • give services to the population, treatment of household and industrial waste, etc.
  • substantiation and coordination at the level of the central apparatus of the State Sanitary and Epidemiological Service of Ukraine of the possibilities for the placement and further functioning of objects of public designation within the sanitary protection zones of industrial enterprises;
  • carrying out evaluation of the conditions of security of the levels of insulation of residential and other restricted premises and sites of the object of design and existing construction
  • carrying out calculations of the security of the levels of natural illumination of residential and other restricted premises of the object of design and existing construction
  • performance of materials Assessment of the environmental impact of various objects that have a  potentially unfavorable impact on the environment
  • carrying out soundproofing calculations for built-in and detached residential and public objects
  • making calculations of hazard classes for household and industrial waste, substantiation of materials permits for emissions into the atmosphere, discharge into surface water bodies
  • drawing conclusions on the location of industrial waste
  • conducting an examination at the State Institution "Institute of Hygiene and Medical Ecology Marseeva" Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine
Kornev Ihor
Kornev Ihor
Мanaging partner, Attorney at law