NSW Environmental Legislations and their Significance for Sustainable Development

This article discusses the importance of Environmental Protection Act, State Environment Protection and Planning, Local Environmental Planning, National Construction Code, and Bushfire in NSW for sustainable development. It highlights the legal framework, regulations, and guidelines for the sustainable utilization of natural resources, protection of the environment, and mitigation of environmental issues. The article also covers the significance of NGO's and public awareness in implementing these laws. The subject matter includes environmental science, law, and sustainable development. The course code, course name, and college/university are not mentioned.

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Environmental Protection Act (EPA)
Environmental Protection Act (EPA), is a great legal implementation of the Government of
Queensland, Australia. This is a tremendous legal step in overcoming all the challenges of
environmental pollutions such as air pollution from industries, carbon footprint maintenance, and
others (Vivoda and Fulcher, 2017, p. 6). Waste management along with the contaminated land
management system is included under the jurisdiction of the Environmental Protection Act
(1996), Queensland, Australia. In Australia, the Governmental framework is robust to make the
environment a pollution free system. In this aspect, there is the primary state level and territory
level authoritative body to regulate this law. The Commonwealth government is here as the
highest regulatory body to implement this act to protect the environment. According to this act,
every year environmental audit is also commenced here which is regulated primarily the local
and territory body and all of these reports, including domestic and industrial are finally reported
and regulated by the highest governmental body. In New South Wales, the environmental
protection Act is also very active. Along with Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria and many others
provinces of Australia. In a broad aspect, this environmental protection act is very much active
along with the political implications. Sometimes, states and provinces have some separate
models also where the government is also reviewing all of the articles and files of the law.
Environmental protection act is highly implemented at the Commonwealth level. It involves
commonwealth bodies. In New South Wales, this environmental legislation is modified into the
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (1999), or EPBC Act. The
Department of Environment and Energy entirely governs all of these regulations and legal
implications (DOE). In NSW, these legal systems are highly developed and all of the persons are
hereby concerned to abide by these environmental laws where any kinds of depreciation from
this law regarding environment, land use, carbon emission or others may lead the citizens
towards imprisonment, cancellation of business licenses and the organization will be subject to
the notice issuance or others. Here all kinds of offenders, there are three divisions which are tier-

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1, tier-2 and tier-3 along with their punishment money of $1 Million for corporation offices,
$250,00 and $50,000 respectively. Commonwealth bodies are always present NSW to observe
the maintenance of the EPA. EPA is protected by local, state and highest government through
their actions of mitigation of environmental issues, and they are always present to mitigate all
environmental issues in a therapeutic method. Sometimes, public contraventions are also made
by those bodies to protect environmental pollutions. Most of the EPA implementation related
activities are performed by Non-Governmental Offices, on the other hand, this NGO's have the
power to make decisions for environmental challenges in NSW. In NSW, the Coal serum gas
challenge was a worldly concern, where NGO has performed a great deal to mitigate this issue
adequately. NSW based NGO's are highly concerned to follow EPA in every place and to
mitigate all the problems related to the land clearance, stopping the harmful emission of gasses,
water, and climate change related issues along with all the carbon footprint related issues
occurred in the mine related areas.
State environment protection and planning (SEPP)
State environment protection and planning (SEPP) is mainly implemented in Victoria, Australia
to prevent the abuses and pollution of waters. SEPP hs provided a significant step to the people
of Victoria, Australia, in this that, in Victoria, Australia, water is a scarce thing. As a result, the
sustainable utilization of water is highly crucial in Victoria. In this aspect, SEPP has provided the
blueprint of utilization procedure that what procedure of utilization can help the people to use
water for the long term in a sustainable manner. To utilize the water sustainably, the essential
thing is the socio-economic and cultural quality of peoples. Through the formation of the
blueprint of water utilization, SEPP has provided a goal post to the people of Victoria, what
should be the amount of water used, how it can be recycled and what amount should be stored
for a long time span for the future utilization. In this aspect, social awareness is highly essential
which was wholly looked after by the association of NGO. Ngo'S has made enormous
campaigning for the people awareness which makes people aware that how they can protect
waterbodies through its sustainable utilization. SEPP along with NG guidance has provided a
clear base of safety net based guidance for water utilization and not go through any kinds of
discharged material to the water body. SEPP has another crucial significance because SEPP

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becomes active with its statistical tools which have provided great safeguards to the EPA
implementation also (Schmidt, 2017, p.8).
In the preliminary level, SEPP was implemented to guide people about the source of discharge in
1988, but along with new agenda of environmental protection, it has come to an end that, people,
business communities, industrialists and other peoples to protect all environmental resources
including the areas of catchment and coastal area. On the other hand, SEPP s now implemented
in Victoria and NSW with its agenda where it is guided the people that how people of this area
can utilize the natural resources for their own lives without making any harmful activities to
nature or environment also. Above all, SEPP has provided the Victoria people the safety
framework to use water and other natural resources sustainably; through maintenance of the
sustainable framework, the situation becomes more effective within a 10-year time frame. SEPP
has provided the attainment program also where people come to about the beneficial uses of all
natural resources and can make the Victoria and other water bodies protected from all kinds of
environmental damage or problems.
Implementation of SEPP has saved the natural water bodies and other resources in such a way
that all the ecological aspects of Vitoria and NSW based water bodies become fully conserved.
The beneficial utilization of SEPP has helped all the ecological systems including the aquatic
ecosystems, water-based creatures and make them ready for recreational aspect and economic
value, and above all make the water body ready to catch fishes, mollusks and other animals from
the catchment area which provides a great source of employment also the people of Victoria.
Local Environmental Planning (LEP)
Local environmental planning is the decision-making planning tool which is developed by the
local planning authoritative bodies to make the sustainable utilization of land zones and
maintenance of the developmental standards. In NSW it is a mandated rule to maintain an LEP,
to make the sustainable maintenance of land zones and other natural resources without any
harmful activities. After formation of the planning, the entire plan is completed by the Minister
for the planning of environmental resources. All of these planning got their approvals through
the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act, along with its related legal regulations. This

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LEP has the main activity to provide local environmental plans, through the draft Development
Control Plan 2008 which will be activated for ten weeks. In 2004, 30th September, this planning
authority has taken the step where planning procedures are reformed by SEPP and Regional
Environmental plans (REP). In these drafts, the planning are implemented in the entire area of
Victoria and NSW (Studdert and Glanville, 2017, p.6).
On the other hand, this LEP is responsible for all of the activities of Lower Hunter strategies
also. In this aspect, it provides the new homes for near about 11500 peoples. It plans the 66,000
new employment sources. On the other hand, this source is vibrant for the Urban development
planning. LEP has provided more than 12,000 hector land utilization plan also. Above all, this
lower hunter committee is responsible for the maintenance of lower catchment area and other
area-based water utilization procedure also.
From all of these aspects, LEP is an excellent step in NSW to create a planned way for
sustainable utilization of natural resources and all.
National Construction code (NCC):
NCC provides the way of sustainable construction of buildings in the area of NSW. In the
primary level, it has the responsibility to look after the construction procedure of 2 to 9 floored
buildings in Australia, NSW. Mainly in this classes, all of the commercial houses industrial
structures and factories are included. On the other hand, NCC 2 is mainly implemented for the
class 1 and ten where the corporate houses are mainly included (James et al., 2017, p. 145). NCC
type 3 regulates the water usage and drainage related activities. In one sentence, the
consolidated requirement of NCC is to look after every kind of construction, plumbing, after
drainage and building related fields. NCC is a code which is dependent on the performance. This
performance-based code is mainly utilized by architects, plumbers, construction builders and all
kinds of consultants related to the hydraulic system. NCC provides a systematic frame working
procedure to all of the construction builders and others where the wastage materials will be
decidedly less in amount. NCC has the power also to enact the legal effects with the help of
Territory building control and plumbing legislation authorities (Douglas and He, 2017, P. 158).

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Bushfire:
Bushfires are the event in Australia mainly occurs in the warmer sessions in the year. Mainly the
hot and dry climate is responsible for it. NSW is under the threat of bushfires from its coastal
territories. This bushfire controlling activities are measured under four standers of tools which
are discussed below.
AS 3959 is a significant standard of the bushfire prevention were protection is amended for the
household area in bushfire prone zone. According to the Bushfire assessment Level, this
standard is always provided to the people. This AS 3959 standard is mainly provided to quiet
area based people after getting the report from Bushfire Attack level. There is an enormous level
of bushfire attack including BAL 19, 29, 40 and others which destruct the venture area along
with vegetative lands, natural resources, and others. For that reason maintenance of this standard
is a very crucial thing the building owners or other dwellers.
Bushfire standard 1530.8.1 is the standard which developed by the prevailing standard of
Australia and New Zealand. After doing planning with representatives of both of these countries,
it is found to be present that, before the building of construction it is crucial to maintaining some
method which is included in the standard guidelines to protect buildings from Bushfire. This
standard has the recommendations and guidelines which are very crucial for the house building
planning times. For that reason after maintenance of guidelines house are becomes bushfire
related attack proof (Delany et al., 2017, p. 260).
Bushfire standard 1530.8.2 is the standard where all the buildings are constructed with such a
design or planning that houses become get the power to protect the front face of home from hot
or infringement of fire during the bushfire. The standard has the scope to assess the fire hazard
related resistance power also.
In the standard systems of AS 5414, there is the implementation of water spraying system to the
houses during the bushfire attacking. In this aspect, the houses become able to resist all the heat
and fire-related damages also. It includes the amber attacks along with some exposure to the fire
also. According to the NSW government, any certification of the AS5414 system helps a house
to get the assistance of Government authorities through their water spraying systems along with
getting some evaluation test and financial help also (O'Connor, 2017, p. 14).

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NASH:
It is the system of project development where the comprehensive structure of nutrient is also
provided to the youth housing (Cole et al., 2017, p. 462). It is the system where nutritional foods
are supplied to the young workers to maintain the human resources also (Low et al., 2017, p. 33).
Planning Bushfire Protection (PBP):
PBP provides the collection of best practices which helps to develop some framework in the
bushfire pone areas to develop their strategy to fight against bushfire. NSW planning law highly
supports the systems of pbp (Little 2017, p.75). This system of PBP has the aim to provide
protective arms to the human being, and it has a significant impact to reduce the amount of life
danger and damages from bushfire related activities.

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