Notifiable activities
Activities that have been identified as likely to cause land contamination are listed in Schedule 2 of the Environmental Protection Act 1994. Under the Act, landowners and local government must inform the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that land has been or is being used for a notifiable activity. Land that has been or is being used for a notifiable activity is recorded on the Environmental Management Register, which is maintained by the EPA (see Management of contaminated land in Queensland).Schedule 2: Notifiable activities
1. Abrasive blasting—carrying out abrasive blast cleaning (other
than cleaning carried out in fully enclosed booths) or disposing of abrasive
blasting material.
2. Aerial spraying—operating premises used for—
(a) filling and washing out tanks used for aerial spraying; or
(b) washing aircraft used for aerial spraying.
3. Asbestos manufacture or disposal—
(a) manufacturing asbestos products; or
(b) disposing of unbonded asbestos; or
(c) disposing of more than 5t of bonded asbestos.
4. Asphalt or bitumen manufacture—manufacturing asphalt or bitumen,
other than at a single-use site used by a mobile asphalt plant.
5. Battery manufacture or recycling—assembling, disassembling, manufacturing
or recycling batteries (other than storing batteries for retail sale).
6. Chemical manufacture or formulation—manufacturing, blending,
mixing or formulating chemicals if—
(a) the chemicals are designated dangerous goods under the dangerous goods code;
and
(b) the facility used to manufacture, blend, mix or formulate the chemicals
has a design production capacity of more than 1t per week.
7. Chemical storage (other than petroleum products or oil under
item 29)—storing more than 10t of chemicals (other than compressed or liquefied
gases) that are dangerous goods under the dangerous goods code.
8. Coal fired power station—operating a coal fired power
station.
9. Coal gas works—operating a coal gas works.
10. Defence establishments or training areas—operating a
defence establishment or a training area used for handling ammunition in a way
that may have caused, or may cause, remnant unexploded ordnance.
11. Drum reconditioning or recycling—reconditioning or recycling
of metal or plastic drums including storage drums.
12. Dry cleaning—operating a dry cleaning business where—
(a) solvents are stored in underground tanks; or
(b) more than 500L of halogenated hydrocarbon are stored.
13. Electrical transformers—manufacturing, repairing or disposing
of electrical transformers.
14. Engine reconditioning works—carrying
out engine reconditioning work at a place where more than 500L of the following
are stored—
(a) halogenated and non-halogenated hydrocarbon solvents;
(b) dangerous goods in class 6.1 under the dangerous goods code;
(c) industrial degreasing solutions.
15. Explosives production or storage—operating a factory
under the Explosives Act 1952.
16. Fertiliser manufacture—manufacturing agriculture fertiliser
(other than the blending, formulation or mixing of fertiliser).
17. Foundry operations—commercial production of metal products
by injecting or pouring molten metal into moulds and associated activities in
works having a design capacity of more than 10t per year.
18. Gun, pistol or rifle range—operating a gun, pistol or
rifle range.
19. Herbicide or pesticide manufacture—commercially manufacturing,
blending, mixing or formulating herbicides or pesticides.
20. Landfill—disposing of waste (excluding inert construction
and demolition waste).
21. Lime burner—manufacturing cement or lime from limestone
material using a kiln and storing wastes from the manufacturing process.
22. Livestock dip or spray race operations—operating a livestock
dip or spray race facility.
23. Metal treatment or coating—treating or coating metal
including, for example, anodising, galvanising, pickling, electroplating, heat
treatment using cyanide compounds and spray painting using more than 5L of paint
per week (other than spray painting within a fully enclosed booth).
24. Mine wastes—
(a) storing hazardous mine or exploration wastes, including, for example, tailings
dams, overburden or waste rock dumps containing hazardous contaminants; or
(b) exploring for, or mining or processing, minerals in a way that exposes faces,
or releases groundwater, containing hazardous contaminants.
25. Mineral processing—chemically or physically extracting
or processing metalliferous ores.
26. Paint manufacture or formulation—manufacturing or formulating
paint where the design capacity of the plant used to manufacture or formulate
the paint is more than 10t per year.
27. Pest control—commercially operating premises where—
(a) more than 200L of pesticide are stored; and
(b) filling or washing of tanks used in pest control operations occurs.
28. Petroleum or petrochemical industries including—
(a) operating a petrol depot, terminal or refinery; or
(b) operating a facility for the recovery, reprocessing or recycling of petroleum-based
materials.
29. Petroleum product or oil storage—storing petroleum products
or oil—
(a) in underground tanks with more than 200L capacity; or
(b) in above ground tanks with—
(i) for petroleum products or oil in class 3 in packaging groups 1 and 2 of the dangerous goods code—more than 2500L capacity; or
(ii) for petroleum products or oil in class 3 in packaging groups 3 of the dangerousgoods code—more than 5000L capacity; or
(iii) for petroleum products that are combustible liquids in class C1 or C2 in Australian Standard AS 1940, ‘The storage and handling of flammable and combustible liquids’ published by Standards Australia—more than 25 000L capacity.
30. Pharmaceutical manufacture—commercially manufacturing,
blending, mixing or formulating pharmaceutics.
31. Printing—commercial printing using—
(a) type metal alloys; or
(b) printing inks or pigments or etching solutions containing metal; or
(c) cast lead drum plates; or
(d) a linotype machine with a gas-fired lead melting pot attached; or
(e) more than 500L of halogenated and non-halogenated hydrocarbon solvents.
32. Railway yards—operating a railway yard including goods-handling
yards, workshops and maintenance areas.
33. Scrap yards—operating a scrap yard including automotive
dismantling or wrecking yard or scrap metal yard.
34. Service stations—operating a commercial service station.
35. Smelting or refining—fusing or melting metalliferous
metal or refining the metal.
36. Tannery, fellmongery or hide curing—operating a tannery
or fellmongery or hide curing works or commercially finishing leather.
37. Waste storage, treatment or disposal—storing, treating,
reprocessing or disposing of regulated waste (other than at the place it is
generated), including operating a nightsoil disposal site or sewage treatment
plant where the site or plant has a design capacity that is more than the equivalent
of 50 000 persons having sludge drying beds or on-site disposal facilities.
38. Wood treatment and preservation—treating timber for its
preservation using chemicals, including, for example, arsenic, borax, chromium,
copper or creosote.
Last updated: 28 November 2003
