The EPA leads regulation of significantly contaminated land under the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 and Contaminated Land Management Regulation 2013.
The Contaminated Land Management Compliance Statement (PDF 182KB)
- details the approach to enforcing compliance under this legislation
- outlines the notices and orders the EPA can serve on those responsible for managing land contamination
- provides information on complying with these notices
- identifies factors the EPA considers when deciding responses to non-compliance
- explains the conditions under which the EPA escalates its response
- describes how compliance is monitored
Responses to non-compliance
Adapted from Ian Ayres & John Braithwaite (1992), Responsive Regulation: Transcending the deregulation debate, Oxford University Press, New York
The EPA's regulatory response to non-compliance is set out in the Compliance Policy (PDF 400KB)
The EPA escalates the response to Unintentional non-compliance, Opportunistic non-compliance and Intentional non-compliance by issuing
- Advisory letters and formal warnings
- Official cautions
- Improvement programs and licence variations
- Notices, directions and orders
- Penalty notices
- Mandatory environmental audits
- Enforceable undertakings
- Prosecutions
