Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 1 WELCOME TO THE PSC FOR THE REVISION OF THE 2 ND EDITION OF MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS 4 February 2004

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 2 “Governments must govern for its people without whose collective wisdom and knowledge it will merely succeed governing for itself”

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 3 CONTENTS  Introduction  Project Steering Committee  Core Objective  Specific Objectives  Project Process  Participation  Project Structure  Consultants Selection Criteria  Conclusions

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 4 INTRODUCTION  DWAF sincerely appreciates your participation  Inauguration event: bona fide attempt to establish optimum approach/structures  PSC is not presented with faitte accompli but concepts framework and process for discussion and ultimate agreement  Focus: To reasonabily solve unsolved issues of 2 nd Edition

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 5 REPRESENTATION 1.Government (3 spheres) 2.NGO’s 3.Trade Unions 4.Professional organisations 5.Co-option as required

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 6 PSC SELECTION CRITERIA  Representative of organisation or sector  Actual involvement / prolonged experience in waste management or disposal  Involved in relevant waste related discipline

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 7 PSC TERMS OF REFERENCE  To provide high level linkages to other relevant waste related disciplines / initiatives  To provide broad based and high level input to: -Provide strategic direction -Ensure that project objectives are achieved -Confirmation of acceptability of deliverables

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 8 PROJECT CORE OBJECTIVE To innovatively improve the standard of Waste Management in South Africa

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 9 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES – HAZARDOUS WASTE  Down stream users  Risk protocols  Nett risk  Simulation test  Sectoral approaches

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 10 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES – LANDFILL  Internalise externalised costs  Quality control  Extended Responsibilities  Human Rights Issues

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 11 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES – MONITORING  Capturing technological advances in monitoring  Quality control  Selective adoption of world trends in monitoring  Performance auditing

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 12 PROJECT PROCESS / PHASES  Structural Alignment  Creating Document Framework  Populate Framework  Peer Review  Full Integration Preserve the genetic code of MRs

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 13 PROJECT PARTICIPATION PROCESS To efficiently and effectively capture all stakeholder input through:  Post 1998 comments  Wastecon 2002 Workshop  National stakeholder workshop  Specialist Workgroups  PMC  Electronic and hard copy communication  Ad hoc interviews / communication

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 14 CONSULTANTS SELECTION CRITERIA  Practical experience in waste management discipline / landfill permitting  Experience in developing best practice guidelines  Ensuring continuity in MR series in terms of maintaining philosophy, style and overall context

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 15 PROJECT ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE PSC Project Co-ordinators (Dr Fourie, Mr Ball, Prof Hodgson, Mrs R de Jager) Hazardous Waste Sub Consultants Landfilling Sub Consultants Monitoring Sub Consultants PMC Project Leader, Mr L Bredenhann with DWAF Project Management Team (Mr Le Roux, Dr Abbott, Mrs Tsebe, et al)

Department of Water Affairs and Forestry 16 CONCLUSIONS 1.Clear objectives supportive of environmental legislation and sustainable waste management 2.Approved project conforms to the set of guidelines for professional service providers 3.Project phasing and organisational structure aim at providing for optimum stakeholder participation buy-in