Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 1443: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government the status of the proposed sewage treatment plant (details supplied) in County Mayo. [40251/05]

Dick Roche (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Belmullet and Foxford sewerage schemes are being advanced as a joint project and are approved in my Department's water services investment programme 2005-07 to commence construction this year. Further consideration will be given by my Department to Mayo County Council's preliminary reports and water services pricing policy reports for both schemes on receipt of the additional information requested from the council earlier this month. Once the preliminary reports have been approved the council will be in a position to proceed with the preparation of contract documents.

The threshold above which an environmental impact statement is required in connection with applications for waste transfer stations is a waste intake of 25,000 tonnes per annum. The threshold was originally set in 1989 in respect of waste disposal installations generally and there is no proposal to review it.