MCU14/0028 Appendix 2 EnvProtAct 1994

Environmental Protection Act 1994
Chapter 7 Environmental management
Part 8 Contaminated land

[s 389]

                (a)   it has required additional relevant information about the
                      report; or
                (b)   it is satisfied there are special circumstances for
                      extending the time.
          (2)   The authority must give an information notice about its
                decision to extend the time to—
                (a)   the recipient; and
                (b)   if the recipient is not the land’s owner—the owner.
          (3)   The notice must be given before the extension starts.

389        Failure to make decision on site investigation report
           taken to be refusal
                If the administering authority fails to make a decision about a
                site investigation report within the time it is required to make
                a decision on the report, the failure is taken to be a decision by
                the authority to leave particulars of the land to which the
                report relates in the environmental management register.


Division 4                   Remediation of land

390        Voluntary remediation of contaminated land
          (1)   A person may, after submitting a site investigation report,
                conduct or commission work to remediate land for which
                particulars are recorded in the environmental management
                register or contaminated land register and submit a report (a
                validation report) about the work to the administering
                authority.
                Note—
                  See section 565 (Only suitably qualified person can perform regulatory
                  functions).
          (2)   However, if the person intending to carry out the work and
                submit the validation report is not the land’s owner, the
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