Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2013C00288:reg:9:p9
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2013C00288
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 9 (pt 9/12)
Character Range: 326621–329811

the potential nature and extent of site contamination. It may also be useful for identifying features (for example, current and disused utilities) that may act as potential preferential contaminant migration pathways. It may include the use of video or photographic logs to assist with site documentation.

Sources of information for compiling a site history include but are not limited to:
    * past and current owners and occupiers, operators or workers at the site and adjacent properties
    * local knowledge of residents
    * current and historical aerial and ground photographs
    * past involvement with government authorities or consultants (environmental audits, notices etc.)
    * trade and street directories
    * historical societies and local, state or territory government libraries
    * historical titles back to original deeds
    * local literature, including newspapers
    * technical literature, including plumbing and building permits/plans, flammable and combustible liquid storage and handling licences
    * complaint history and information from environmental licences and trade waste permits held by local government or state government departments
    * geological survey maps and reports
    * groundwater/drinking water protection zones
    * groundwater abstraction licences
    * local government development approval records, sewer and underground service plans
    * site layout plans.
To compile a site history, the assessor should consider the issues described below in Sections 3.3.1 to 3.3.19.

    3.3.1          Site plan and historical maps and aerial photographs
It is essential to have a locality map and a current plan of the site, with scale bar, indicating the site orientation (including north) and general topography of the property, local water drainage and other environmentally significant features. A review of the site history with dates as deduced from current and historic aerial photographs and other historical information should be included (where available). In addition to historical aerial photographs, other historical maps and plans are at times available and can be of great value (for example, government department maps and plans, local council records, street directories, topographic maps, geological maps, mining plans, and records of the mining department (where appropriate) etc).

    3.3.2          Land Use Zoning
Necessary records include previous, present and proposed zoning, and relevant development and building approval records.

    3.3.3          Present owners, occupiers and current users of the site
If these are not the parties responsible for the assessment and management of the site then those who are (or are thought to be) responsible should also be identified if possible.

    3.3.4          Previous owners and occupiers of the site
These should be listed chronologically, noting any periods during which ownership or tenancy is unknown or uncertain.

    3.3.5          Previous activities/uses
A chronological list of land uses should be compiled, focusing on industrial uses or other potentially contaminating activities, and including any periods during which the land use is unknown or