sec.10Earth contaminated with hazardous contaminant

sec.10 Earth contaminated with hazardous contaminant

The chief executive must refuse an exempt waste application relating to earth contaminated with a hazardous contaminant from land recorded in the environmental management register or contaminated land register unless satisfied— the earth was contaminated before 1 January 1992; or the earth contains waste removed from a landfill cell that is to be delivered to a levyable waste disposal site as part of a significant community project; or the earth contains waste that was disposed of to landfill before 1 January 1992 (whether or not disposal continued after that time) at land recorded in the environmental management register or contaminated land register and either of the following applies— the earth is to be removed from the land by or for a local government and delivered to a levyable waste disposal site for the sole purpose of remediating contamination; the earth is to be removed from the land by or for a local government and delivered to a levyable waste disposal site for the purpose of conducting or operating a resource recovery and transfer facility on the land, and waste will no longer be disposed of as landfill at the land. Also, the chief executive must refuse an exempt waste application relating to earth contaminated with a hazardous contaminant from land recorded in the environmental management register or contaminated land register if satisfied the earth, if analysed in accordance with the site contamination guideline— is contaminated solely with petroleum hydrocarbons; or contains only contaminants that can reasonably be treated by bioremediation and made suitable for any use. In this section— resource recovery and transfer facility see section 54 (7) of the Act . significant community project means a project the chief executive considers has an aesthetic, conservation, cultural or economic benefit to the State or a community in Queensland, including, for example— a project that serves an essential need of the community; and school, sporting field a project that significantly improves the community’s access to services. hospital, museum, State or local government library site contamination guideline means the guideline called ‘Schedule B3—Guideline on Laboratory Analysis of Potentially Contaminated Soils’ made by the National Environment Protection Council and published on the Council’s website. (sec.10-ssec.1) The chief executive must refuse an exempt waste application relating to earth contaminated with a hazardous contaminant from land recorded in the environmental management register or contaminated land register unless satisfied— the earth was contaminated before 1 January 1992; or the earth contains waste removed from a landfill cell that is to be delivered to a levyable waste disposal site as part of a significant community project; or the earth contains waste that was disposed of to landfill before 1 January 1992 (whether or not disposal continued after that time) at land recorded in the environmental management register or contaminated land register and either of the following applies— the earth is to be removed from the land by or for a local government and delivered to a levyable waste disposal site for the sole purpose of remediating contamination; the earth is to be removed from the land by or for a local government and delivered to a levyable waste disposal site for the purpose of conducting or operating a resource recovery and transfer facility on the land, and waste will no longer be disposed of as landfill at the land. (sec.10-ssec.2) Also, the chief executive must refuse an exempt waste application relating to earth contaminated with a hazardous contaminant from land recorded in the environmental management register or contaminated land register if satisfied the earth, if analysed in accordance with the site contamination guideline— is contaminated solely with petroleum hydrocarbons; or contains only contaminants that can reasonably be treated by bioremediation and made suitable for any use. (sec.10-ssec.3) In this section— resource recovery and transfer facility see section 54 (7) of the Act . significant community project means a project the chief executive considers has an aesthetic, conservation, cultural or economic benefit to the State or a community in Queensland, including, for example— a project that serves an essential need of the community; and school, sporting field a project that significantly improves the community’s access to services. hospital, museum, State or local government library site contamination guideline means the guideline called ‘Schedule B3—Guideline on Laboratory Analysis of Potentially Contaminated Soils’ made by the National Environment Protection Council and published on the Council’s website.