The growing trend of converting industrial land to residential and recreational use has helped bring about more stringent environmental monitoring and cleanup strategies. In Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) province, the next phase of regulation has been introduced in the Contaminated Land Management Bill 2008 (NSW). This amendment affects the original acts of 1997 and 2007 and expands the amount of reporting that must be done during and after industrial site use so that remediation strategies can be better planned and site safety better evaluated.

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