Regulatory framework
The Environment Protection Act 1993 provides provisions and regulatory instruments that enables the EPA to regulate those responsible for site contamination.
The Regulatory and orphan site management framework has been developed to document the process generally applied by the EPA in determining which regulatory instrument will be used to regulate the person responsible for site contamination.
The framework provides details of the way in which the EPA:
- reviews and processes information relating to site contamination
- determines the regulatory priority of a site
- implements either a non-statutory or statutory agreement
- regulates the non-compliance of an agreement, and
- manages the reduction of regulatory involvement.
The framework is primarily for use by the EPA, and also publicly available to provide greater transparency of the regulatory process to those with liability for site contamination, and for site contamination professionals undertaking assessment and or remediation of site contamination.
