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Hazardous substances

Strategies | General publications | Best practice guides and guidelines | Technical reports | Consultation documents

Strategies

Name	Date	Reference
Strategy for Improving the Workability of Hazardous Substances Provisions of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act	June 2003	ME 476

General publications

Name	Date	Reference
Emerging technologies and research for New Zealand's economic development and associated risk management	February 2012	CR 119 CR 120
Chemical and biological risk: Study of regulatory regimes for managing chemical and biological risk in selected countries and implications for New Zealand	February 2012	CR 118
Intractable Agricultural Chemicals in New Zealand	Feb 2006	ME 717
Improving the HSNO Act's workability	May 2005	INFO 91
Acting together - Links between the HSNO Act and the RMA	June 2003	ME 646
The Hazardous Facility Screening Procedure training manual	March 2002	ME 645
Your Guide to the Hazardous Substances & New Organisms Act	July 2001	ME 393
Acting Together: HSNO and the RMA	July 2001	INFO 19D
Sources of Information on the Hazardous Substances & New Organisms Act	June 2000	INFO 19C
Introduction to the Hazardous Substances & New Organisms Act	July 2001	INFO 19B
You and Hazardous Substances	July 2001	INFO 19A
Hazardous Substances and New Organisms information sheets	December 1997	-

Best practice guides and guidelines

Name	Date	Reference
Land Use Planning Guide for Hazardous Facilities	February 2002	ME 424
Assessment Guide for Hazardous Facilities	March 2000	ME 339
Above-ground Bulk Tank Containment Systems	June 1995	ME 610

Technical reports

Name	Date	Reference
Investigation of brominated flame retardants present in articles being used, recycled and disposed of in New Zealand	September 2010	CR 95
Agrichemical Trespass Ministerial Advisory Committee (ATMAC) Final Report to the Minister for the Environment	November 2002	ME 432

Consultation documents

Name	Date	Reference
Working Towards a Comprehensive Policy Framework for Managing Contaminated Land in New Zealand: Position Paper	September 2007	ME 836
Working Towards a Comprehensive Policy Framework for Managing Contaminated Land in New Zealand: Report on Submissions	September 2007	ME 835
Hazardous Substance Strategy: Proposals to Amend the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996	April 2004	ME 506, ME 507
Summary of Submissions: Improving the Operation of the HSNO Act for New Organisms	February 2003	ME 462
Towards a Pesticides Risk Reduction Policy for New Zealand – Summary of Submissions	September 2002	ME 455
Public Discussion Paper: Improving the Operation of the HSNO Act for New Organisms	September 2002	ME 454
Towards a Pesticides Risk Reduction Policy for New Zealand	April 2002	ME 427

Contaminated land

General publications | Best practice guides and guidelines | Consultation documents

General publications

Name	Date	Reference
Cleaning up Mapua: The history of the Fruitgrowers' Chemical Company site	October 2011	ME 1054
Audit of the Remediation of the former Fruitgrowers Chemical Company Site, Mapua	July 2009	CR 71
Remediation of the FCC Mapua site	December 2008	CR 57

Best practice guides and guidelines

Name	Date	Reference
Contaminated Land Management Guidelines No. 1 - Reporting on Contaminated Sites in New Zealand (Revised 2011)	Updated October 2011	ME 1071
Contaminated Land Management Guidelines No. 2 - Hierarchy and Application in New Zealand of Environmental Guideline Values (Revised 2011)	Updated October 2011	ME 1072
Contaminated Land Management Guidelines No 5 - Site Investigation and Analysis of Soils (Revised 2011)	Updated October 2011	ME 1073
Guidelines for assessing and managing petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated sites in New Zealand (Revised 2011)	Updated October 2011	ME 1074
Checklist of Reporting Requirements for Contaminated Sites	October 2011	INFO 625
Checklist for the Removal of Petroleum Underground Storage Tanks	October 2011	INFO 626
Methodology for Deriving Standards for Contaminants in Soil to Protect Human Health	June 2011	ME 1055
Toxicological Intake Values for Priority Contaminants in Soil	June 2011	ME 1056
Identifying, Investigating and Managing Risks Associated with Former Sheep-dip Sites: A guide for local authorities	November 2006	ME 775
Contaminated Land Management Guidelines No. 4: Classification and Information Management Protocols	August 2006	ME 742
Contaminated Land Management Guidelines No. 3 - Risk Screening System	February 2004	ME 502
Draft Sampling Protocols and Analytical Methods for Determining Petroleum Products in Soil and Water	May 1999	ME 613
Environmental guidelines for water discharges from petroleum industry sites in New Zealand	December 1998	ME 300
Guidelines for Assessing and Managing Contaminated Gasworks Sites in New Zealand	August 1997	ME 244
Health and Environmental Guidelines for Selected Timber Treatment Chemicals	June 1997	ME 240

Consultation documents

Name	Date	Reference
Proposed National Environmental Standard for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil: Discussion Document	February 2010	ME 977
Working Towards a Comprehensive Policy Framework for Managing Contaminated Land in New Zealand	November 2006	ME 777

Rena recovery

Name	Date	Reference
Rena Long-term Environmental Recovery Plan	January 2012	ME 1084

Organochlorines

General publications | Technical reports

General publications

Name	Date	Reference
New Zealand's National Implementation Plan under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants	December 2006	ME 789
Reporting on persistent organochlorines	September 1998	ME 289
Organochlorines Bulletins	1995 - 1999	INFO 10, INFO 9, INFO 7, INFO 6, INFO 5, INFO 4, INFO 3, INFO 2

Technical reports

Name	Date	Reference
New Zealand inventory of dioxin emissions to air, land and water and reservoir sources	February 2011	ME 1038
Assessment of Dioxin Contamination at Sawmill Sites	October 2008	CR 52
Dioxin and Furan Emissions to Air from Secondary Metallurgical Processes in New Zealand: Volume One and Two	April 2004	ME 508, ME 509
Dioxin Concentrations in Residential Soil, Paritu, New Plymouth	September 2002	ME 640
The cost effectiveness of reductions in dioxin emissions to air from selected sources	August 2001	TR 110
Dioxin discharges from waste incinerators; technical specifications for national environmental standards	August 2001	TR 109
Serum study: A summary of the findings	May 2001	INFO 17
Concentrations of selected organochlorines in serum from the non-occupationally exposed New Zealand population	May 2001	ME 350
Evaluation of toxicity of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs: A health risk appraisal for the New Zealand population	February 2001	ME 351
New Zealand inventory of dioxin emissions to air, land and water and reservoir sources	March 2000	ME 345
Ambient concentrations of selected organochlorines in air	December 1999	ME 362
Ambient concentrations of selected organochlorines in rivers	December 1998	ME 317
Ambient concentrations of selected organochlorines in estuaries	June 1999	ME 316
Organochlorines Programme Environmental Survey Database and Users Manual	March 1999	TR 85
Ambient concentrations of selected organochlorines in soil	December 1998	ME 318
Concentrations of PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs in retail foods and an assessment of dietary intake for New Zealanders	November 1998	ME 319