New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 53B

53B Site audit reports and site audit statements

(1) A site auditor must make a site audit report in writing whenever he or she carries out a site audit and furnish that report to the person who commissioned the site audit.

(2) The site audit report must contain a critical review of the information collected in relation to the site audit and must clearly set out the reasons for the findings proposed to be contained in the relevant site audit statement.

(3) After completing the site audit report, the site auditor must make a site audit statement in a form approved by the EPA and must:

(a) furnish that statement to the person who commissioned the site audit, and

(b) if the site audit is a statutory site audit, at the same time furnish a copy of the statement to the EPA and the local authority for the area in which any land the subject of the site audit is situated.

(4) The site audit statement must contain the site auditor’s findings in relation to the site audit and must be consistent with the reasons set out in the site auditor’s site audit report.

(5) A site auditor must promptly furnish the EPA with any further information, in support of or otherwise relating to a site audit report or a site audit statement, or concerning any site audit carried out by the site auditor, as the EPA may, by notice in writing to the site auditor, require.

(6) A site audit is to be carried out, and a site audit report and site audit statement are to be prepared and furnished, by a site auditor:

(a) in compliance with the provisions of this Act and the regulations, and

(b) in accordance with the guidelines, and

(c) having regard to the provisions of any environmental planning instruments applying to the site.