The Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act has standards to conserve resources and control wastes at levels that protect our environment. Standards are applied through approvals, guidelines, or codes of practice.
Standards can be numerical limits, narrative statements, or best management practices.
Technology-based standards ensure a minimum level of treatment and pollution prevention and a level playing field among industrial and municipal sectors. Ambient-based standards are applied where protection of the environment requires more stringent levels of treatment and pollution prevention. Publications below which state they are PDF format require the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view the document. Click on the link below to download the reader.