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Good Practice Guide on Assessing Discharges to Air from Land Transport: Draft for consultation

June 2006, Ref. ME737

When granting new designations and land-use consents, territorial authorities and/or requiring authorities should now be considering the National Environmental Standards for Air Quality. This (draft) Good Practice Guide on Assessing Discharges to Air from Land Transport provides comprehensive guidance on exactly how to consider air quality impacts from transport development.

The guide promotes a three-tiered approach in order to separate the simple from the complex and covers all elements of environmental assessment - not just those pollutants included in the Standards. In doing so it makes recommendations for the assessment approach to be adopted, while recognising the wide range of potential users − from planning professionals and technical experts, to council staff and hearing commissioners. Taken together with its sister document, the Good Practice Guide on Assessing Discharges to Air from Industry, this guide provides the final link in the information chain on air quality management in New Zealand.

The document is published in draft form to provide an opportunity for comment and discussion and workshops to discuss the document were run in August 2006.

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