The Victorian Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has released new guidelines for assessing best practice of the state’s environment protection framework.

The EPA said the purposes of the guideline are to:

  • assist those who manage sources of emissions or discharges to the Victorian environment to understand and meet best practice requirements
  • contribute to increased consistency and transparency in EPA’s definition of best practice and assessment of applications for statutory approval
  • provide detailed guidance to works approval applicants about what evidence of best practice compliance they need to provide to EPA and, in particular, assist in the early clarification and confirmation of those evidentiary requirements.

The new publication is a revised version of the draft guideline (Publication 1507), which was released for public comment on 22 October 2012. The public comment period closed on 23 November 2012.

The final guideline can be found here