NT EPA may require environmental audit program to be carried out
48 NT EPA may require environmental audit program to be carried out
(1) The NT EPA may, by notice in writing to a person, including but not limited to a person who:
(a) is required to hold an environment protection approval or a licence; or
has been issued with a pollution abatement notice,
require him or her to carry out the environmental audit program specified in the notice.
(2) An environmental audit program in a notice under subsection (1) is to specify:
the environmental audits to be performed under the program;
(b) the activities, operations, premises or locations to which the environmental audits are to relate;
(c) the date or dates by which the environmental audits are to be performed or the frequency with which and the period during which the environmental audits are to be performed; and
(d) the date or dates by which results of the environmental audits performed under the program are to be submitted to the NT EPA or the frequency with which or the period in which the results are to be so submitted.
(3) A notice under subsection (1) may specify conditions or other matters relating to the conduct of the environmental audit program that the NT EPA thinks fit.
(4) A notice under subsection (1) is to specify the reasons for the requirement to carry out the environmental audit program specified in the notice.
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