Environmental Management and Pollution Control (Underground Petroleum Storage Systems) Regulations 2020
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(1) In these regulations –
abandoned storage system means a storage system that was in use before 31 March 2010 but has not been in use since that day;
Act means the Environmental Management and Pollution Control Act 1994 ;
approved form means a form approved by the Director;
AS 4482.1 means Australian Standard AS 4482.1 Guide to the investigation and sampling of sites with potentially contaminated soil – Non-volatile and semi-volatile compounds, issued and published on 2 November 2005, as amended or substituted from time to time;
AS 4482.2 means Australian Standard AS 4482.2 Guide to the sampling and investigation of potentially contaminated soil – Volatile substances, issued and published on 5 September 1999, as amended or substituted from time to time;
AS 4897 means Australian Standard AS 4897 The design, installation and operation of underground petroleum storage systems, issued and published on 5 February 2008, as amended or substituted from time to time;
AS 4976 means Australian Standard AS 4976 The removal and disposal of underground petroleum storage tanks, issued and published on 19 February 2008, as amended or substituted from time to time;
AS/NZS 5667.11 means Australian Standard AS/NZS 5667.11 Water quality – Sampling – Guidance on sampling of groundwaters, issued and published on 5 April 1998, as amended or substituted from time to time;
decommissioning assessment means an assessment conducted in accordance with regulation 36(2)(b) or regulation 38(2)(a) ;
discrepant result, in relation to a loss-monitoring procedure undertaken in relation to a storage system, means a result that –