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The NPI Guide has been updated!

If you only ever read one NPI document, make sure you read the latest version of The NPI Guide.

Version 5.3 of the NPI Guide was released today and contains the following sections:

Section 1 - An overview and description of what the National Pollutant Inventory is

Section 2 - Reporting thresholds and how to apply them to a particular site

Section 3 - Estimating emissions of substances which must be reported to the NPI

Section 4 - Estimating NPI substances transferred in wastes

Section 5 - How to report emissions and transfers to the NPI

If you need to report to the NPI, please read the NPI Guide carefully to maximise the chance of fully meeting all reporting requirements.

Apart from updates to hyperlinks and NPI government contact details, there are just a few areas in which the NPI Guide has changed this year:

• A clarified definition of 'facility' has been provided on page 6: "Facility means any building or land together with any machinery, plant, appliance, equipment, implement, tool or other item used in connection with any activity carried out at the facility, and includes an offshore facility. The facility may be located on a single site or on adjacent or contiguous sites owned or operated by the same person."; and
  
• further clarification of advice about reporting an emission of a tripped substance as zero. If an emission or transfer for a substance can not be estimated, emissions and transfers must not be reported as zero. Instead, the reported emission or transfer must be left blank and the reason for the blank reported as part of the facility's public statement.

A useful enhancement to the NPI website is that hyperlinks to NPI EET manuals are now shown together with their most recent publication date which makes it much easier to see at a glance if a manual has been updated. The updated page is here.

Please contact NPI+ at peter@NPIplus.com.au if you have any questions about how NPI+ can help you meet the requirements of the NPI for the 2011-2012 reporting period.

Or, you can contact the relevant government agency in your state as shown on page (iii) of The NPI Guide, or shown here on the NPI government website.

News item added 19 May 2012, by Peter Eriksen

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