8Nature of National Pollutant Inventory

8 Nature of National Pollutant Inventory

The National Pollutant Inventory will be a joint programme under which:

(a) occupiers of reporting facilities will estimate emission and transfer data and provide these and supporting data to participating States and Territories;

(b) participating States or Territories will collect emission and transfer data and supporting data from occupiers of reporting facilities and, subject to clause 20, develop or cause to be developed, aggregated emission and transfer data, and will provide these data to the Commonwealth; and

(c) the Commonwealth will:

(i) compile substance information;

(ii) collate the data provided by States and Territories and substance information as defined in this Measure and as also agreed between participating jurisdictions; and

(iii) disseminate this information annually.