Commonwealth Environment Protection Agency
Environment Protection Agency · EPA
1992 – 18 November 1996
Environment protection agency within the Commonwealth environment portfolio that handled pollution control, environmental impact assessment, hazardous waste and chemicals, and national environment protection policy.
How it came into existence
Set up in 1992 within the environment portfolio, taking over the environment protection and impact assessment functions of the Department of the Arts, Sport, the Environment and Territories.
- Environment protection
- Environmental impact assessment
How it ended
Absorbed into Environment Australia within the Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories in the restructure that also ended the Australian Nature Conservation Agency on 18 November 1996 (date for this agency not separately confirmed); its work continued in Environment Australia's Environment Protection Group.
- Environmental impact assessment
- Pollution, hazardous waste and chemicals policy
- National environment protection measures
- Environmental impact assessment
- Pollution, hazardous waste and chemicals policy
- National environment protection measures
Main functions
- Environmental impact assessment of Commonwealth proposals
- Pollution and hazardous waste policy
- Regulation of ozone-depleting substances
- National environment protection measures
- Chemicals assessment
Where it sits
Last in the portfolio of Department of the Environment, Sport and Territories.
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Sources
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