Scottish Government

November 2005
Paper 2005/32

ISBN 0 7559 2816 4

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Contents

Covering Letter

1.Public Consultation Exercise
Consultation Information Coverage
Consultation list
Responses to Consultation
The Scottish Executive Consultation Process

2. Executive Summary

3. Summary of the main consultation questions
Implementation measure
Recovered petrol vapour
Other one-off costs
Regulatory costs
Benefits and quantified costs
Option 3

4. Why Control volatile organic compounds?
UKVOC emissions
International Commitments

5. PVRII systems
How petrol vapour escapes to the atmosphere from vehicle tanks
Active vapour recovery systems
Passive vapour recovery systems
Industry Structure
Previous consultation on petrol vapour recovery

6. Implementation Measure
Consultation questions

7. The value of the recovered petrol vapour
New PVR II Technology
Traditional PVRII systems
Vapour returned to terminals

8. Implementation options
Benefit issues
Costs issues and assumptions
Cost of work (materials and labour)
Stage II Petrol Vapour Recovery Equipment Costs
Other one off costs
Regulatory costs
Quantified costs
Option 1: No PVRII controls applied to petrol stations
Option 2: Threshold for compliance; existing stations > 3000m3 & all new stations
Option 3: Threshold for compliance; existing stations >3500m3 & all new stations >500m3

9. Conclusion

Annex A - List of Consultees
Annex B - Draft Regulatory Impact Assessment

Draft Secretary of State's Guidance for Unloading of Petrol into Storage at Petrol Stations

Index of tables

Table 1 Summary of Costs and Benefits
Table 2 Projected baseline UKVOC and benzene emissions (kilotonnes) in the fuel station sector
Table 3 Projected statistics for UK petrol retail sector; Number of sites; Annual petrol sales
Table 4 Estimated number of sites in 2010
Table 5 Costs per site of installing Stage II equipment - materials and labour
Table 6 Costs per nozzle of PVRII Stage II equipment
Table 7 estimated loss of fuel sales earnings during installation of PVRII equipment
Table 8 Summary of monetised benefits arising from option 2, Stage II controls applied at service stations with petrol throughput > 3000m ³, by 2010
Table 9 Estimated costs, Stage II controls applied at service stations with petrol throughput >3000m ³, by 2010
Table 10 Summary of monetised benefits arising from option 3, Stage II controls applied at service stations with petrol throughput > 3500m ³, by 2010
Table 11 Estimated costs, Stage II controls applied at service stations with petrol throughput >3500m ³, by 2010