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Information about the way we recover the administrative costs of our activities.

NSW planning authorities regulate contaminated land that is not 'significantly contaminated' through the planning and development process. These lands do not pose an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment under the current, approved use of the land.

The Standing Council on Environment and Water (SCEW) amended the National Environment Protection (Assessment of Site Contamination) Measure 1999 (the NEPM) on 16 May 2013.

Public land managers are responsible for the management of a large amount of land in NSW.

The current list of notified sites, and the contaminated land record, a searchable database of our orders and other important documents.

The EPA triggers assessment and remediation of significantly contaminated land by sending written notices to those responsible for cleaning up the contamination. The EPA makes these notices, which include preliminary investigation orders, available to the public through the record of notices.