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Protection Goal
Part 3 National environment protection standards
7 Purpose of Part
8 National environment protection standards
Part 4 National environment protection protocol
9 Purpose of Part
10 Monitoring plans
11 Methods of measuring and assessing concentration of pollutants
12 Accreditation of performance monitoring
13 Location of performance monitoring stations
14 Number of performance monitoring stations
15 Trend stations
16 Monitoring methods
17 Evaluation of performance against standards and goal
18 Reporting
Schedule 1 Pollutants
Schedule 2 Standards and Goal
Schedule 3 Australian Standards Methods for Pollutant Monitoring
Endnotes
Endnote 1—About the endnotes
Endnote 2—Abbreviation key
Endnote 3—Legislation history
Endnote 4—Amendment history
Endnote 5—Editorial changes
Introductory Note
Section 14 of the National Environment Protection Council Act 1994 and the equivalent provision of the corresponding Act of each participating State and Territory provides for the making of measures by the National Environment Protection Council and the matters to which they may relate. This Measure relates to ambient air quality (paragraph 14 (1) (a)).

The Measure is to be implemented by the laws and other arrangements participating jurisdictions consider necessary: see section 7 of the Commonwealth Act and the equivalent provision of the corresponding Act of each participating State and Territory.

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Citation
  This Measure may be cited as the National Environment Protection (Ambient Air Quality) Measure.
2 Definitions
 (1) This section defines particular words and expressions used in this Measure.
 (2) The words and expressions indicated by an asterisk are defined in the Commonwealth Act and are included for information only to assist readers of the Measure. Minor changes from the definitions in the Commonwealth Act are indicated by square brackets ([ ]).
 (3) In this Measure:
*Agreement means the agreement made on 1 May 1992 between the Commonwealth, the States, the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory and the Australian Local Government Association, a copy of which is set out in the Schedule [to the Commonwealth Act].
ambient air means the external air environment, it does not include the air environment inside buildings or structures.
Australian Standard means a standard that is published by Standards Australia Limited denoted by the letters "AS" and identifying numbers and letters. It includes an Australian/New Zealand Standard that is jointly published by Standards Australia Limited and Standards New Zealand, denoted by the letters "AS/NZS" and identifying numbers and letters.
Commonwealth Act means the National Environment Protection Council Act 1994 of the Commonwealth.
Council means the National Environment Protection Council established by section 8 of the Commonwealth Act and the equivalent provision of the corresponding Act of each participating State and Territory.
exceptional event means a fire or dust occurrence that adversely affects air quality at a particular location that:
 (a) causes