Notifiable activities

Notifiable activities are activities that have the potential to cause land contamination, such as service stations, cattle dips, tanneries, wood treatment sites, landfills, fuel storage and refuse tips.

Current notifiable activities are listed below:

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—

1. filling and washing out tanks used for aerial spraying; or
2. washing aircraft used for aerial spraying.

3 Asbestos manufacture or disposal—

1. manufacturing asbestos products; or
2. disposing of unbonded asbestos; or
3. disposing of more than five tonnes (t) 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—

1. the chemicals are designated dangerous goods under the dangerous goods code; and
2. the facility used to manufacture, blend, mix or formulate the chemicals has a design production capacity of more than 1 t per week.

7 Chemical storage (other than petroleum products or oil under item 29)—storing more than 10 t 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.

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—

1. solvents are stored in underground tanks; or
2. more than 500 L 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 500 L of any of the following are stored—

1. halogenated and non-halogenated hydrocarbon solvents;
2. dangerous goods in class 6.1 under the dangerous goods code;
3. industrial degreasing solutions.

15 Explosives production or storage—operating an explosives factory under the Explosives Act 1999.

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 10 t 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 5 L of paint per week (other than spray painting within a fully enclosed booth).

24 Mine wastes—

1. storing hazardous mine or exploration wastes, including, for example, tailings dams, overburden or waste rock dumps containing hazardous contaminants; or
2. 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 10 t per year.

27 Pest control—commercially operating premises, other than premises operated for farming crops or stock, where—

1. more than 200 L of pesticide are stored; and
2. filling or washing of tanks used in pest control operations occurs.

28 Petroleum or petrochemical industries including—

1. operating a petrol depot, terminal or refinery; or
2. operating a facility for the recovery, reprocessing or recycling of petroleum-based materials.

29 Petroleum product or oil storage—storing petroleum products or oil—

1. in underground tanks with more than 200 L capacity; or
2. in above ground tanks with—

1. for petroleum products or oil in class 3 in packaging groups 1 and 2 of the dangerous goods code—more than 2500 L capacity; or
2. for petroleum products or oil in class 3 in packaging groups 3 of the dangerous goods code—more than 5000 L capacity; or
3. 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 25 000 L capacity.

30 Pharmaceutical manufacture—commercially manufacturing, blending, mixing or formulating pharmaceutics.

31 Printing—commercial printing using—

1. type metal alloys; or
2. printing inks or pigments or etching solutions containing metal; or
3. cast lead drum plates; or
4. a linotype machine with a gas-fired lead melting pot attached; or
5. more than 500 L of halogenated and nonhalogenated 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 waste prescribed under a regulation to be regulated waste, for this item (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.