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__NOTOC__ This is a list of the Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) in County Durham, England. It excludes SSSIs situated in that area south of the River Tyne that is now part of the metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear as well as the area north of the River Tees which, prior to 1996, formed part of the county of Cleveland. As of July 2010, County Durham has 88 sites that have been designated as SSSIs, of which 67 have been designated for their biological interest, 16 for their geological interest, and 5 for both.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Search results for Durham )〕 Five of these sites are shared with an adjacent county: * Moorhouse and Cross Fell with Cumbria; * Derwent Gorge and Horsleyhope Ravine, Hexhamshire Moors and Muggleswick, Stanhope and Edmundbyers Commons and Blanchland Moor with Northumberland; * Durham Coast with both Cleveland (in the south) and Tyne and Wear (in the north). ==Designation of SSSIs== Sites of Special Scientific Interest are areas that have been selected for special protection because of their floral, faunal or geological significance. The concept was first given a statutory basis in the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949, the relevant provisions of which were repeated in the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981. Under the 1949 Act, responsibility for selecting and notifying SSSIs in England was delegated to the newly created Nature Conservancy, which was replaced in 1973 by the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC). In 1991, the NCC was split up, its responsibilities in England being passed to English Nature which, in turn, was amalgamated into a new body, Natural England, in 2006. The process for establishing an SSSI is as follows: 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SSSIs – The designation process )〕 * When a site has been identified, Natural England notifies the landowner, the occupier (if different) and the local planning authority (plus relevant government departments and agencies); * Owners and occupiers are given time to lodge objections or make representations concerning the restrictions imposed on an SSSI; * The Board of Natural England considers these responses and decides whether to confirm or withdraw the SSSI notification. The initial notification of a site is accompanied by a citation sheet, which outlines the reasons for the notification: the data in the following list is summarised from these individual citation sheets.〔Natural England citation sheets for each SSSI. Retrieved on 2008-02-26. (PDF files). 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of Sites of Special Scientific Interest in County Durham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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