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National Environment Protection (Assessment of Site Contamination) Amendment Measure 2013 (No. 1)

No longer in force

Administered by

Department of the Environment and Energy

This item is authorised by the following title:

National Environment Protection Council Act 1994

Latest version

F2013L00768

15 May 2013 - 16 May 2013

Table of contents

Volume 1
- 1 Name of measure
- 2 Commencement
- 3 Authority
- 4 Schedule(s)
  - Schedule 1—Amendments
    - National Environment Protection (Assessment of Site Contamination) Measure 1999
Volume 2
- Introduction
- Derivation of investigation and screening levels
- Application of investigation and screening levels
- Asbestos materials in soil
- Case Studies
- Tabulated investigation and screening levels
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Shortened forms
Volume 3
- Introduction
- Stages of investigation
  - Preliminary site investigation
  - Detailed site investigation
- Preliminary investigations
  - Site identification
  - Current and proposed use
  - Site history
  - Environmental setting
  - Local geology and hydrogeology
  - Site inspection
- Conceptual site models
  - Overview
  - Iterative development of conceptual site models
  - Essential elements of conceptual site models
  - Assessing data gaps and uncertainties in conceptual site models
- Systematic planning for collection of environmental data
  - Introduction
  - Data quality objective process
  - Sampling and analysis quality plans
  - Quality assurance and quality control
  - Choice of analytes
  - Data quality assessment
- Sampling Design
  - Introduction
  - Categories of sampling designs
  - Selecting a sampling design
  - Sampling density and depth of sampling
- Soil assessment
  - Introduction
  - Soil investigation techniques
  - Field description of soils
  - Field testing
  - Stockpile sampling
  - Assessment of soil leachability to groundwaters and surface waters
- Groundwater assessment
  - Groundwater investigation approaches
  - Monitoring well establishment
  - Delineating groundwater contamination
- Vapour assessment
  - Introduction
  - Vapour intrusion assessment framework
  - Sampling and analysis plan design
  - Soil vapour sampling
  - Sample collection and analysis
- Contaminant fate and transport modelling
  - Overview of contaminant fate and transport modelling
  - Data requirements
  - Limitations of fate and transport modelling
  - Types of model
- Assessment of asbestos soil contamination
  - Introduction
  - Preliminary site investigation
  - Detailed site assessment
    - Sampling and analysis
    - Assessing concentration and distribution of asbestos in soil
- Assessment of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds
- Data analysis
  - Data quality assessment
  - Statistical analysis
- Report presentation
  - Introduction
  - General requirements
  - Graphics overview
  - Site plans
  - Presentation of contamination data
  - Presentation of tabulated laboratory analytical results
  - Presentation of bore logs
  - Photography
  - QA/QC documentation
  - Electronic data
- Protection of the environment during site assessment
  - General considerations
    - Core environmental protection elements
    - Less obvious concerns
  - Addressing environmental protection issues
- Bibliography
- Appendix A: Possible analytes for soil contamination
- Appendix B: Data quality objectives (DQO) process
  - Introduction
  - The seven-step DQO process
  - Notes about decision errors and decision-making
- Appendix C: Assessment of data quality
  - Assessment of reliability of field procedures and laboratory results
  - QA/QC analytical methods
  - Field methods
  - Laboratory screening methods
  - Methods specific for contaminants
  - Data quality indicators (DQIs)
  - Field QA/QC
  - Laboratory QA/QC
  - QA/QC documentation
  - Quality assurance and quality control checklist
- Appendix D: Example data presentation on scale drawings and borehole logs
- Appendix E: Dioxins and dioxin-like compounds
  - Background
  - Occurrence of dioxins and dioxin-like compounds
  - Results from the National Dioxins Program (May 2004)
- Shortened forms
Volume 4
- Introduction
- Laboratory analysis of potentially contaminated soil
- Quality assurance and quality control
- Sample control, preparation and storage
- Analytical methods
  - Method selection
- Physicochemical analyses
- Metals
- Halides
  - Bromide
    - Scope and application
    - Principle
  - Fluoride
    - Scope and application
    - Principle
- Non-metals (cyanide and sulfur)
- Organics
  - Volatile organics
  - Semi-volatile organics
- Leachable contaminants
  - Scope and application
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1: Determination of total recoverable hydrocarbons (TRH) in soil
- Shortened forms
Volume 5
- Introduction
- The Australian risk assessment framework
- Data collection and data evaluation
- Exposure assessment
- Toxicity assessment
- Risk Characterisation
- Risk communication and management
  - Risk communication
  - Risk management
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1: Structure of a risk assessment report
- Glossary
- Shortened forms
Volume 6
- Background
- Introduction
- The ecological risk assessment framework
- Preliminary ecological risk assessment
- Definitive ecological risk assessment
- Uncertainty
- Reporting
- Bibliography
- Appendix A
- Appendix B: Mixtures of chemicals
- Glossary
- Shortened forms
Volume 7
- Introduction
- EIL derivation methodology
- Technical notes on methods used in the EIL derivation methodology
- Bibliography
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Shortened forms
Volume 8
- Introduction
  - Objectives
  - Terminology
- Overview of the method for deriving soil quality guidelines
  - Precision of estimates and rounding of added contaminant limits
- Zinc
- Arsenic
- Naphthalene
- DDT
- Copper
- Lead
- Nickel
- Trivalent chromium
- Summary
- Bibliography
- Appendices
- Glossary
- Shortened forms
Volume 9
- Introduction
- Site assessment process and terminology
- Framework for applying water quality guidelines in the risk-based assessment of contaminated groundwater
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Shortened forms
Volume 10
- Arsenic
- Beryllium
- Boron
- Cadmium
- Chromium VI
- Cobalt
- Copper
- Lead
- Manganese
- Mercury
- Nickel
- Selenium
- Zinc
- Cyanide (free)
- Shortened forms
Volume 11
- Benzo(a)pyrene
- Phenol
- Pentachlorophenol (PCP)
- Total Cresols
- Shortened forms
Volume 12
- DDT+DDE+DDD Review
- Aldrin + Dieldrin
- Chlordane (total)
- Endosulfan (total)
- Endrin (total)
- Heptachlor
- Hexachlorobenzene (HCB)
- Methoxychlor
- Mirex
- Toxaphene
- Shortened forms
Volume 13
- 2,4,5-T
- 2,4-D
- MCPA, MCPB and Mecoprop
- Picloram
- Atrazine
- Chlorpyrifos
- Bifenthrin
- Shortened forms
Volume 14
- PCBs
- Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (Br1 to Br9)
- Shortened forms
Volume 15
- Trichloroethene (TCE)
- 1,1,1-Trichloroethane
- Tetrachloroethene (PCE)
- Cis-1,2-Dichloroethene (DCE)
- Vinyl Chloride
- Shortened forms
Volume 16
- Equations for derivation of HILs and interim HILs
- Attachment A
  - Worked Example: Calculation of HIL A for cadmium
  - Bibliography
- Attachment B
  - Worked Example: Calculation of HIL A for benzo(a)pyrene
  - Bibliography
Volume 17
Volume 18
Volume 19
- Introduction
- Presentation of the health-based investigation levels
  - Stockholm Convention
  - Summary of HILs
- Generic land use scenarios
- Toxicity assessment
- Exposure assessment
- Risk characterisation  how the HILs were generated
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Shortened forms
Volume 20
- Purpose and application
- Benefits of community engagement and risk communication
- Key principles of community engagement and risk communication
- A step-by-step guide to community engagement and risk communication
  - Planning and preparation
  - Key messages for contaminated land practitioners
- Community engagement techniques
  - Engagement techniques: summary of advantages and disadvantages
  - Engagement and communication DOs and DON’Ts
- Case studies
  - Case study 1: Radioactive site in metropolitan area
  - Case study 2: Ardeer, Victoria
- Bibliography
- Glossary
Volume 21
- Introduction
- Purpose
- Use of these guidelines
- Professional roles in the assessment of site contamination
  - Auditors and third-party reviewers
  - Environmental consultants
- Application for acceptance
- Assessment Criteria
- Acceptance processes and general conditions
  - General acceptance processes
  - Ongoing practice