Question 7105 — dangerous products

Summary

Mr. Michel Delpon draws the attention of the Minister of State, Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition, to the project to create a public asbestos eradication center submitted by the coordination of associations of victims of asbestos and occupational diseases (CAVAM). The decree of February 7, 1996 has prohibited since January 1, 1997 the manufacture, transformation, sale, import, placing on the market and transfer of asbestos and materials containing it. CAVAM points out that the risks of professional or environmental contamination following the inhalation of asbestos dust are still present and that, given the 20 million tonnes of asbestos remaining in France, 100,000 deaths are expected by 2050 for the 2 million employees potentially exposed to the risks of asbestos. Asbestos removal is subject to regulations strict in order to avoid exposure to anticipated public health risks. A pilot funded by ADEME made it possible to study the inhibition of the specific danger of asbestos. The envisaged process is broken down into two distinct and successive phases: the first is an acid attack on the waste which leads to the production of an intermediate material (IM); the second is to subject these intermediate materials to attack hydrothermal to synthesize zeolites. Risk studies, the drafting of removal plans as well as the deployment of processes require specialized companies to master the entire asbestos chain up to the final transport of waste, carried out by ADR qualified drivers (transport of dangerous materials) and supervised by waste management managers. Asbestos waste must be packaged, transported and treated according to the risk of fibers flying away. They are subject to the waste tracking form. This is why, in order to avoid the speculative operations that we have observed with private storage depots with a more economic than health vocation, the creation of a public asbestos eradication center in France seems judicious. The Bergerac NC establishment manufactures industrial nitrocellulose (NCI) for many applications: edible inks, paints, varnishes The production of nitrocellulose requires the use of strong acids which are prepared on site both for BNC's own needs and those of Manuco. The establishment is classified AS by its storage of concentrated acids (1950 tonnes authorized for an AS threshold of 200 tonnes). Today, the situation of BNC can be summarized in the 3 main decrees following prefectural authorization to operate: the prefectural decree of August 22, 1995 focused on chronic risks (air, water, waste); the additional prefectural decree “Post Seveso 2” of July 10, 2007 focused on technological risks; the prefectural decree “Risk Control Measures” which concludes the investigation of the hazard study. Note that BNC provides an assembly function on the platform for certain activities common to the 4 companies on the site (BNC, Eurenco, Manuco and Durlin): guarding and security, management of the boiler room for the supply of steam, management of the acid park, water pumping station in Dordogne, implementation of the POI and the PPI. This Seveso 2 site in Bergerac, already equipped and experienced in handling acids, has all the prerequisites to host the pre-industrial phase of the pilot. The action plan interministerial asbestos agreement expires in June 2018. He also asks if its extension is planned and if a project to install a public asbestos eradication center in Bergerac could fall within the framework of the R and D asbestos Plan.

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