POEO public register

The Protection of the Environment Operations Act (POEO) public register contains information about environment protection licences and other regulatory information required under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act)

Contaminated land

• The Contaminated Land Public Record contains information about contaminated sites and other details required under the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 and the Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act 1985

Dangerous goods

• The Dangerous Goods public register contains information about the transport of dangerous goods required under the Dangerous Goods (Road and Rail Transport) 2008 and regulations, including information about driver and vehicle licences.

Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme

• Details about the Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme are published online, including a list of scheme participants and an online credit exchange facility. River Registers (select "Hunter Integrated Telemetry" then "River Register") indicate when salt discharges can occur. 

Native forestry

• NSW Forest Agreements and Integrated Forestry Operations Approvals approved under the Forestry Act 2012 are published online.

Pesticides licences

• The Public register of pesticides licences can be searched by licence number, type, date and status.

Plastic Reduction and Circular Economy Act public register

The Plastic Reduction and Circular Economy Act 2021 (PRCE Act) public register contains information about:

• exemptions granted by the EPA from the provisions of the PRCE Act
• convictions for prosecutions initiated by the EPA under the PRCE Act
• compliance notices issued or revoked by the EPA under the PRCE Act or the regulations
• penalty notices issued under the PRCE Act or the regulations
• the outcome of civil proceedings initiated by the EPA under the PRCE Act.

Read more about exemptions granted under the PRCE Act.

Read more about our approach to compliance.

Radiation

• The Protection from Harmful Radiation Act public register contains information about radiation licences required under the Protection from Harmful Radiation Act 1990 including the name of the licensee as well as the type, number, expiry date and status of the licence.

Privacy Act exemptions for public registers maintained by the EPA

Public registers are defined in the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 as registers containing personal information that are required by law to be made publicly available or open to public inspection. Examples include the register of births, deaths and marriages, land titles register, register of drivers' licences and electoral roll.

Public registers maintained by the EPA include the following public registers which are listed in Schedule 2: Privacy Code of Practice (General) Order 2003. For these registers, the public register provisions set out in Part 6 of the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 are modified as follows:

1. The record maintained under section 58 of the Contaminated Land Management Act 1997, however, this exception does not extend to the name of an individual who is the occupier, owner or polluter of a contaminated site or the address of such an individual if the individual does not reside at a contaminated site.
2. The registers listed in regulation 15.1 of the Road Transport Reform (Dangerous Goods) Regulations 1997 of the Commonwealth that apply in New South Wales as the Road Transport Reform (Dangerous Goods) (New South Wales) Regulations under the Road and Rail Transport (Dangerous Goods) Act 1997, however, this exception does not extend to information relating to the medical condition or the driving history of an individual.
3. The Credit Register for the tradeable emission scheme known as the Hunter River Salinity Trading Scheme, made publicly available through the internet, comprising the name and contact details of a member of the Scheme or an employee or agent of that member and the member's business facilities, credit holdings and trading history.
4. The information made publicly available through the internet concerning the Waste Reduction Grants Program paid from the Waste Fund set up under section 19 (repealed) of the Waste Avoidance and Resource Recovery Act 2001 comprising the name and contact details of the person awarded the grant, or an employee or agent of that person, the amount of the grant, the grant number and the details of the project for which the grant was given.
5. The public register kept under Part 9.5 of the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997.

Any person whose personal and privacy information is recorded in an EPA public register has the right to request their personal details be suppressed. The Act provides for this to protect people whose position or occupation requires a high level of personal security or people who have a well-founded fear of violence or harm, for example, victims of domestic violence, police informants, judges, or senior police officers.