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Dangerous stores will be relocated

THE planning study and assessments of 10 of the territory's 34 sites for storing hazardous materials have yet to be completed.

The Secretary for Planning, Environment and Lands, Tony Eason, said relocation would be needed in some cases, and this would be time consuming.

The locations, classified as ''potentially hazardous installations'', are facilities where dangerous materials are stored in large quantities.

They include storage areas for liquefied petroleum gas, gas works, chlorine stores at water treatment works, and explosives factories or depots.

The inter-departmental Co-ordinating Committee on Land Use Planning and Control Relating to Potentially Hazardous Installations was set up in 1986. Planning studies have been carried out since then on 24 such sites and safety measures have been prepared.

Mr Eason said the Government had based its safety standard on a 1982 British law, with more stringent modifications to meet the local circumstances.

Under the policy the siting of storage facilities and land use in their vicinity is controlled.

Facilities also have to be constructed and operated according to specific safety standards.

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