National Pollutant Inventory (NPI)

Last updated by ess-home on 9/16/2008

History

Environment Protection Act 1997 - Australia

The National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) is a public Internet database that displays information about the emissions and transfers of 93 substances to air, land and water from industrial facilities and diffuse sources.

The objectives of the NPI are to:

Help industry and government with environmental planning and management
Give the community up to date information about pollutant emissions from industrial facilities
Promote waste minimization, cleaner production, and energy and resource efficiency

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Meet the requirements of this regulation with IHS solutions for:

Environmental Compliance

Management System and Data Management Implications

NPI reporting can have significant implications for industrial facilities. An extensive list of substances must be monitored.

To effectively report on these substances, a data management system can be useful to:

Record chemical uses and releases.
Setup an NPI configuration to use the sources of data in the implementation.
Evaluate reporting thresholds to determine chemicals required to report.
Run the report to create an NPI Submission.
Generate the NPI submission.

Fast Facts

Jurisdiction	Australia
Applicability	The list of reporting industries is available on the NPI website. If you answer YES to Question 1 and YES to any of Questions 2-4 you will need to estimate the emissions and transfers of substances in waste from your facility and submit an NPI report to your state or territory environment agency. Is the ANZSIC code for my industry listed in the NPI program? In the reporting year did your facility use 10 tons or more of any of the NPI Category 1 substance or 25 tons or more of the Category 1a substance or 5 kilograms or more of the Category 1b substance? Did your facility burn 400 tons or more of fuel or consume 60 000 megawatts or more of electric power (for other than lighting or motive purposes) in the reporting year or burn 1 ton or more of fuel or waste in one hour at any time during the reporting year? Did your facility discharge 15 tons or more of Total Nitrogen or 3 tons or more of Total Phosphorus to water in the reporting year, including to sewer?
Regulatory Driver	Environment Protection Act 1997 - Amendment
Promulgating Entity	Environment Protection and Heritage Council (EPHC)
Enforcing Entity	Environment Protection Authority (EPA)
	http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/about_us/default.asp
Regulatory Text	http://www.npi.gov.au/handbooks/guidetoreporting.html
Regulatory Submissions Required	Reports are generally due by the September 30th each year.

More Information

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