2012-2013 NATIONAL AIR QUALITY OFFICER’S ANNUAL REPORT ON AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT March 2014 2012-2013 NATIONAL AIR QUALITY OFFICER’S REPORT ON AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................... 1 1.1 BACKGROUND ...................................................................................................... 1 1.2 PURPOSE OF THE REPORT ................................................................................ 1 1.3 SCOPE OF THE REPORT ..................................................................................... 2 2. The National Air Quality Officer’s Prologue .................................................................... 2 2.1 SUMMARY PROGRESS REPORTS ...................................................................... 3 2.1.1 The National Department of Environmental Affairs’ Report ................................... 3 2.1.2 Provincial Reports ................................................................................................. 4 2.2 CHALLENGES ...................................................................................................... 37 2.3 THE 2012 SUMMARY NATIONAL STATE OF THE AIR REPORT ....................... 37 2.3.1 NAQI Derivation from Annual Averages of PM10 and SO2 .............................. 40 2.3.2 NAQI Reporting Phases ................................................................................ 41 2.4 AIR QUALITY AND THE PRESIDENTIAL OUTCOMES ....................................... 42 3. PROGRESS IN RESPECT OF THE 2012 NATIONAL FRAMEWORK INDICATORS 44 3.1 PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITISATION ......................................... 46 3.1.1 Ambient pollutants ......................................................................................... 46 3.1.2 Pollutant point-sources .................................................................................. 47 3.1.3 National hotspots ........................................................................................... 47 3.1.4 Provincial hotspots ......................................................................................... 66 3.1.6 Minor, but widespread point-sources ............................................................. 74 3.1.7 Potentially polluting fuels ............................................................................... 74 3.2.1 National hotspots ........................................................................................... 75 3.2.2 Provincial hotspots ......................................................................................... 75 3.2.3 Municipal plans .............................................................................................. 75 3.2.4 Air pollution in dense, low-income communities ............................................. 76 3.2.5 Intergrated strategy for the control of vehicle emissions ................................. 76 3.3 STANDARD-SETTING ......................................................................................... 76 3.3.1 New pollutants requiring ambient standards .................................................. 76 3.3.2 Total ambient standards ................................................................................ 77 3.3.3 Emission standards - point-sources ............................................................... 77 3.3.4 Emission standards - minor, but widespread point-sources ............................ 77 3.3.5 Fuel standards ............................................................................................... 77 3.4 AWARENESS-RAISING ....................................................................................... 78 3.4.1 Publications ................................................................................................... 78 3.5 AIR QUALITY IMPACT MANAGEMENT ............................................................... 78 ii 2012-2013 NATIONAL AIR QUALITY OFFICER’S REPORT ON AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA 3.5.1 National hotspots ........................................................................................... 78 3.5.2 Provincial hotspots ......................................................................................... 78 3.5.3 Cleaner Production ........................................................................................ 78 3.5.4 Atmospheric Impact Report ............................................................................ 79 3.6 ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION LICENSING ............................................................. 79 3.6.1 Licensing manual ........................................................................................... 79 3.6.2 Services fees ................................................................................................. 79 3.6.3 National Licensing Authorities’support programme ........................................ 80 3.7 COMPLIANCE MONITORING .............................................................................. 80 3.7.1 Government monitoring network .................................................................... 80 3.7.2 EMIs .............................................................................................................. 80 3.7.3 Emission monitoring ....................................................................................... 81 3.7.4 Compliance monitoring inspections ................................................................ 81 3.8 ENFORCEMENT .................................................................................................. 82 3.8.1 EMIs .............................................................................................................. 82 3.8.2 By-laws .......................................................................................................... 82 3.8.3 Enforcement actions ...................................................................................... 82 3.9 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT .......................................................................... 82 3.9.1 The SAAQIS .................................................................................................. 82 3.10.1 Annual Air Quality Governance Lekgotla ...................................................... 84 3.10.2 The Annual Air Quality Governance Lekgotla ............................................... 84 3.10.3 National –Provincial Working Group II ............................................................... 86 3.10.4 Provincial-municipal Air Quality Officer’s Forums .......................................... 86 4. NEW AND EMERGING PRIORITY AIR QUALITY ISSUES ...................................... 87 4.1 AIR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMMES ................................................. 87 5 WAY FORWARD ......................................................................................................... 88 APPENDIX A: ATMOSPHERIC EMISSION LICENSING STATUS IN THE COUNTRY ...... 89 APPENDIX B: GOVERNMENT AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLANS STATUS ............ 139 APPENDIX C: DEPARTMENTAL AIR QUALITY PUBLICATIONS .................................... 142 APPENDIX E: ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT INSPECTORS .................................. 150 APPENDIX F: FORMAL COMPLIANCE MONITORING INSPECTIONS ........................... 160 APPENDIX G: CRIMINAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ENFORNCEMENT action ................. 161 iii 2012-2013 NATIONAL AIR QUALITY OFFICER’S REPORT ON AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Incidents reports received in KZN ........................................................................................................... 18 Table 2: Enforcement actions in Mpumalanga ...................................................................................................... 23 Table 3: Key activities of the President’s outcome 10 ........................................................................................... 42 Table 4: Summary rating in respect of progress against the 2012 National Framework indicator targets ............ 44 Table 5: Summary rating in respect of progress against the 2012 National Framework indicator targets ............ 47 Table 6: Key milestones for the Vaal Triangle Airshed Priority Area ..................................................................... 58 Table 7: Key milestones for the Highveld Priority Area ......................................................................................... 63 Table 8: Key milestones for the Waterberg-Bojanala Priority Area ....................................................................... 65 Table 9: Sulphur dioxide review of Table 24 ......................................................................................................... 70 Table 10: Nitrogen dioxide review of Table 24 ...................................................................................................... 71 Table 11: Benzene review of Table 24 .................................................................................................................. 72 Table 12: Ozone review of Table 24 ..................................................................................................................... 73 Table 13: Atmospheric Emission Licensing status in the Eatern Cape ................................................................. 89 Table 14: Atmospheric Emission Licensing status in Free State .........................................................................