Environmental Protection Regulation 2019

The administering authority must, for making an environmental management decision relating to an activity, consider whether to impose monitoring conditions about the release of contaminants from the activity on the receiving environment.

For considering whether to impose a monitoring condition, the administering authority must consider the following matters—

the potential impact on the receiving environment of the activity to which the decision relates and the release of the contaminant;

the characteristics of the contaminant;

the potential for a control measure to fail and the effect of a failure of a control measure on the receiving environment;

any protocol under the Act relevant to monitoring the release of the contaminant;

whether the monitoring should be continuous or intermittent.

In this section—

monitoring the quantity, quality, characteristics, timing and variability of the release;

monitoring indicators of the effective operation of control measures;

monitoring the characteristics of the receiving environment;

assessing the effectiveness of remedial or rehabilitation measures;

monitoring the impact of the release on the values, objectives and biota in the receiving environment;

analysing monitoring data against objectives and standards including, for example, by predictive modelling;

reporting the results of monitoring in a stated form and timeframe;

reporting on the time and way in which the release is made to the receiving environment.