The national environment protection measure for the national pollutant inventory: Legal, technical and policy issues

Environmental and Planning Law Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 365-371

  Sullivan, Rory ^a  

^a Risk Management Services Pacific Air and Environment   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0039014452     PISSN: 0813300X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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1. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.
2. National Environment Protection (National Pollutant Inventory) Measure 1998 [NPI NEPM],
3. NPI NEPM. cl 7.
4. NPI NEPM, cl 3(3) and Sch A, Table 1.
5. NPI NEPM. cl 33.
6. NPI NEPM, Sch A. Table 2.
7. National Environment Protection Council, National Environment Protection Council Information Bulletin: Proposed Variation to the National Environment Protection (National Pollutant Inventory) Measure, July 1999 (NEPC, Adelaide. 1999).
8. NPI NEPM. cl 8(b).
9. NPI NEPM, ell 8(c) and 29.
10. NPI NEPM. cl 9(1).
11. NPI NEPM, cil 10-13.
12. A number of activities (including petroleum retailing, scrap metal handling facilities not involved in metal smelting or battery reprocessing and mobile emission sources) are exempt from reporting (NPI NEPM. cl 9(5).
13. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.
14. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.
15. NPI NEPM, cl 14.
16. NPI NEPM, cl 3(3) and 14.
17. Environment Australia, Environment Australia's Indicative Timeline for the Development of NPI Industry Handbooks. 16 April 1999 (Environment Australia, 1999)
18. For a general review of the available emission estimation techniques and the suitability of these for emissions characterisation, see Dames and Moore, National Pollutant Inventory: Emissions Estimation Techniques Report (Environment Protection Agency, Canberra, 1996). pp 42-46
19. R Sullivan, K Zeise and J Smith, "Establishing Emission Estimation Techniques for Australia" in Proceedings of 14 International Clean Air Environment Conference, 14-18 October 1998, Melbourne (Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand, Mitcham, Victoria, 1998), pp 148-152.
20. R Sullivan, K Zeise and J Smith, "Establishing Emission Estimation Techniques for Australia" in Proceedings of 14 International Clean Air Environment Conference, 14-18 October 1998, Melbourne (Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand, Mitcham, Victoria, 1998), pp 148-152.
21. National Environment Protection Council [NEPC], National Pollutant Inventory: Summary of Submissions Received by the National Environment Protection Council in Relation to the National Environment Protection Measure and Impact Statement for the National Pollutant Inventory and National Environment Protection Council's Responses to these Submissions (National Environment Protection Council, Adelaide, 1998), pp 32-33.
22. For example, see O Hanssen and O Asbjornsen, "Statistical Properties of Emission Data in Life Cycle Assessments" (1996) 4(3-4) Journal of Cleaner Production, pp 149-157.
23. For a specific example in the context of Australian industry, see Appendix B of the NPI Industry Handbook for Incineration (Environment Australia, Emission Estimation Technique Manual for Sewage Sludge and Biomedical Waste Incineration (Environment Australia, Canberra, 1999), pp 30-34.
24. Roth and Mertz discuss concepts such as "optimal resource use over time", "direct" and "indirect use values", "price elasticity of supply and demand", "non-exclusive, non-existent and uncompetitive markets", etc, pp 52-62.
25. D Collins, R Sullivan, B Beudeker and P Glazebrook, "Developing Industry Handbooks for the National Pollutant Inventory: A New Model for Government/Industry Consultation" in Proceedings of the Minerals Council 23rd Annual Environmental Workshop (Minerals Council of Australia, Canberra, 1998), pp 429-442
26. D Collins, R Sullivan, B Beudeker and P Glazebrook, "Developing Industry Handbooks for the National Pollutant Inventory: A New Model for Government/Industry Consultation" in Proceedings of the Minerals Council 23rd Annual Environmental Workshop (Minerals Council of Australia, Canberra, 1998), pp 429-442
27. D Collins, R Sullivan, B Beudeker and P Glazebrook, "Developing Industry Handbooks for the National Pollutant Inventory: A New Model for Government/Industry Consultation" in Proceedings of the Minerals Council 23rd Annual Environmental Workshop (Minerals Council of Australia, Canberra, 1998), pp 429-442
28. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.
29. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.
30. NPI NEPM, cl 3(3).
31. NPI NEPM, cl 3(3).
32. R Sullivan, K Zeise and J Smith, "Establishing Emission Estimation Techniques for Australia" in Proceedings of 14 International Clean Air Environment Conference, 14-18 October 1998, Melbourne (Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand, Mitcham, Victoria, 1998), pp 148-152.
33. R Sullivan, K Zeise and J Smith, "Establishing Emission Estimation Techniques for Australia" in Proceedings of 14 International Clean Air Environment Conference, 14-18 October 1998, Melbourne (Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand, Mitcham, Victoria, 1998), pp 148-152.
34. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.
35. J Bradsen, "Biodiversity Legislation: Species, Vegetation, Habitat", (1992) EPLJ 175.
36. J Bradsen, "Biodiversity Legislation: Species, Vegetation, Habitat", (1992) EPLJ 175.
37. NPI NEPM, cl 3(3).
38. R Sullivan, "Implications of the NPI for Business and the Environment" in Proceedings of 14 International Clean Air A Environment Conference. 14-18 October 1998. Melbourne (Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand, Mitcham. Victoria. 1998). pp 89-94 at 93.
39. Notwithstanding the fact that the Victorian Environment Protection Authority did model emissions and predict ground level pollutant concentrations as part of the NPI trials in 1995 (see Environment Protection Authority (Victoria) Technical Report on the Air Emissions Trials for the National Pollutant Inventory (AGPS, Canberra, 1995).
40. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.
41. R Sullivan, K Zeise and J Smith, "Establishing Emission Estimation Techniques for Australia" in Proceedings of 14 International Clean Air Environment Conference, 14-18 October 1998, Melbourne (Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand, Mitcham, Victoria, 1998), pp 148-152.
42. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.
43. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.
44. NPI NEPM. cl 26(6),
45. R Sullivan, K Zeise and J Smith, "Establishing Emission Estimation Techniques for Australia" in Proceedings of 14 International Clean Air Environment Conference, 14-18 October 1998, Melbourne (Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand, Mitcham, Victoria, 1998), pp 148-152.
46. NPI NEPM, cl 25.
47. National Environment Protection Measure
48. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.
49. Memorandum of Understanding Relating to Implementation of the National Pollutant Inventory 27 February 1998. Sch E.
50. J Bradsen, "Biodiversity Legislation: Species, Vegetation, Habitat", (1992) EPLJ 175.
51. MOU. cl 5.2.1 (a).
52. MOU, cl 5.2.1 (a).
53. MOU, cl 5.2.2.
54. MOU. cl 5.2.3.
55. S Streets and A DiCarlo. "Australia's First National Environmental Protection Measures: Are We Advancing, Retreating or Simply Marking Time?" (1999) 16(1) Environmental and Planning Law Journal pp 25-52.