Antarctic Environmental Protection Regulations

Marginal note:Disposal in ice pits

• 39 (1) Despite paragraph 37(k), the waste management plan may allow the permit holder to dispose of the wastes referred to in that paragraph in deep ice pits if the wastes are produced by stations located inland on ice shelves or on the grounded ice sheet and that disposal is the only practicable option.

• Marginal note:Location of pits

  (2) The deep ice pits must not be located on known ice-flow lines that terminate at ice-free areas or in areas of high ablation.