New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OPERATIONS ACT 1997 - SECT 75

75 Conditions relating to waste

(1) Information about waste The conditions of a licence may require the holder of the licence to provide to the appropriate regulatory authority information relating to the creation, collection, storage, handling, transportation, treatment, processing, recovery, recycling, re-use or disposal of waste.

(2) Environmental waste management plan The conditions of a licence may require the holder of the licence to prepare, and comply with, an environmental waste management plan. Such a plan is to set out the manner in which the holder proposes to carry out the activity or work authorised or controlled by the licence in order to achieve the required environmental outcomes, and may include a closure plan as referred to in section 76.

Note : A draft plan may be required to accompany a licence application--see section 53.

(4) Waste received at premises The conditions of a licence may include the following--

(a) conditions relating to the storage, handling or disposal of waste received at the premises to which the licence applies,

(b) conditions requiring the holder of the licence to take only certain classes and quantities of waste at those premises, or requiring the holder to refuse to accept certain classes and quantities of waste at those premises,

(c) conditions requiring the holder of the licence to provide incentives to encourage separation of waste delivered to those premises.

(5) Other waste matters The conditions of a licence may include the following--

(a) conditions relating to the storage, handling, treatment and processing of waste,

(b) conditions imposing responsibility on the holder of the licence for the proper disposal of waste transported from the premises to which the licence applies,

(c) conditions requiring the holder of the licence to report to the appropriate regulatory authority on any matters concerning waste transported from those premises,

(d) conditions requiring the holder of the licence to implement a re-use, recovery, recycling or take-back and utilisation scheme in respect of any product or item manufactured or sold by the holder that creates waste.

(6) Transporting waste The conditions of a licence may include the following--

(a) conditions relating to the construction, maintenance and cleaning of any container, vehicle or vessel used by the holder of the licence to transport waste,

(b) conditions relating to the times during which, the routes along which, and the waste facilities to which, waste may be transported by the holder of the licence,

(c) conditions imposing responsibility on the holder of the licence for the proper handling and disposal of waste transported by the holder.