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The Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management Standard or ‘IChEMS’ was developed collaboratively by Commonwealth, state and territory governments to harmonise industrial chemical environmental risk management across Australia.

The Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act) includes new scheduled activities for environmentally hazardous chemicals for premises based and non premises-based activities.

The Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act) allows the EPA to issue a chemical use notice to require manufacturers and users of a specified chemical to provide information about their use of the chemical.

The Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act 1985 (EHC Act) has been repealed. The regulation of environmentally hazardous chemicals now occurs through the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act).

Current EHC licences issued under the former Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act 1985 (EHC Act) have been converted to environment protection licences under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act).

Six Chemical Control Orders (CCOs) are in place in NSW for managing chemicals and chemical wastes that require extra regulation.

Please note that this section of the manual may contain out-of-date information. It has been retained to provide general information until a revised version is available. For further up-to-date information on this topic please contact the EPA.

The NSW Government has made changes to the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act) to strengthen the regulation of industrial chemicals and align NSW with new national standards for industrial chemical environmental risk management.

Chemical control orders (CCOs) create extra rules and restrictions for chemicals and chemical wastes that are particularly hazardous.

We are aware of a naturally occurring algal bloom in Tantangara Dam which is known to occur in the region following warm weather.