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❓ A parliamentary question seeks clarification on Western Power's handling and reporting of scheduled PCB waste to the Department of Environmental Protection. The answer indicates discrepancies in Western Power's reporting, but stops short of accusing them of misleading the DEP.

AnsweredQoN 100Legislative Council

Asked

26 June 2001

Member

Hon Jim Scott

Portfolio

the Environment and Heritage

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(1) Did the Department of Environmental Protection receive correspondence from Western Power stating that they had destroyed all scheduled PCB waste material?
(2) Did Western Power inform the DEP they held only non-scheduled PCBs?
(3) Is it correct that Western Power has no scheduled PCBs?
(4) If not, did they mislead the DEP

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Answered

31 July 2001

Responded by

Minister for Housing representing the Minister for the Environment and Heritage

Response time

35 days

(2) On 24 August 1999 Western Power provided a list of scheduled and non scheduled PCB waste, stored at a site in Welshpool to Waste Management (WA). This was not a formal notification of PCBs and would not represent a complete inventory of all the Western Power holdings of PCB waste. (3) No (4) No
(3) No (4) No
(4) No

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