Executive summary -- ch. 1 Background to the NEPC process -- ch. 2 Measure development process -- ch. 3 Methodology - ch. 4 -- Alternatives to proposed measure -- ch. 5 Monitoring and reporting protocol -- ch. 6 Implications of the proposed standards -- ch. 7 Impact assessment methodology -- ch. 8 Carbon monoxide -- ch. 9 Nitrogen dioxide -- ch. 10 Oxidant (as ozone) -- ch. 11 Sulfur dioxide -- ch. 12 Lead -- ch. 13 Particles -- Project team and technical review panels -- Commonwealth, State and Territory air quality implementation plans
Summary
The National Environment Protection Council (NEPC) authorised the preparation of a draft National Environment Protection Measure (NEPM) for ambient air quality in 1996. This draft Measure and the Impact Statement are issued for public consultation. The Council's decision to develop a NEPM for ambient air quality is in direct response to community concerns about air quality as an environmental issue. The decision to prepare a NEPM also reflects the importance of ambient air quality as an influence upon human health and a desire by all juridications that a uniform set of national ambient air quality standards for the protection of human health be developed. The Council also addresses the six core air pollutants that are generally accepted as indictors of air quality (carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, sulfure dioxide, lead and particles) and to provide greater certainty to industry and the community
Analysis
Air pollution
Cost benefit analysis
Environmental impact statements
Federal issue
Measurement
State issue
Statistics
Notes
"November 1997"
Bibliography
Bibliography : pages 198-205
Notes
Previously available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://www.nepc.gov.au
