New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CONTAMINATED LAND MANAGEMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 8

8 General functions of EPA

(1) It is the duty of the EPA to do the following in a manner and to an extent reasonable in the circumstances:

(a) examine, and respond to, information that it receives of actual or possible contamination of land,

(b) address any contamination that the EPA considers to be significant enough to require regulation under Division 2 of Part 3,

(c) record what it has done under paragraphs (a) and (b) and the reasons for it.

(2) It is the duty of the EPA to respond to a person (other than the EPA or an authorised officer) who has furnished information referred to in subsection (1). The response must:

(a) be made in a reasonable time, and

(b) state what the EPA has done in relation to the information and the reasons for doing it, and

(c) be in writing if the information was in writing.

(3) In addition to any functions the EPA has under this or any other Act, the EPA may take such reasonable steps as it considers necessary in relation to investigating or managing contamination of land (including significantly contaminated land) or the threat of harm from any such contamination.