Revision of Contaminated Land Management
Guidelines No. 1 and 5
SUBMISSION FORM
The Ministry for the Environment is seeking views on proposed revisions to:

Contaminated Land Management Guidelines No. 1: Reporting on Contaminated Sites in
New Zealand

Contaminated Land Management Guidelines No. 5: Site Investigation and Analysis of Soils
These guidelines are incorporated by reference into the Resource Management (National
Environmental Standard for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil to Protect Human Health)
Regulations 2011.
Submissions on the revised guidelines close at 12.00 noon on Tuesday 8 March 2016.
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You can complete a submission in three ways:
1.
Use the online submission form available at
www.mfe.govt.nz/consultation/consultation-contaminated-land-management-guidelines
2.
Complete this submission form and send to us by email or post
3.
Write your own submission and send to us by email or post.
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Consultation, Ministry for the Environment, PO Box 10362, Wellington 6143.
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The questions below are a guide only, and all comments are welcome.
To ensure your point of view is clearly understood, please explain your rationale.
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Contaminated Land Management Guidelines No. 1
Section 1: Introduction
1.
Does this section provide adequate information on the purpose, use and scope of this guideline?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Section 2: Investigating and reporting
2.
Does this section provide adequate information on investigating and reporting?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Appendix A: Example report table of contents
3.
Is it useful to have the preliminary site investigation and detailed site investigation example
reports specific to consent types?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
4.
Do the example reports provide sufficient flexibility for site / project specific requirements, while
ensuring reports that are prepared using this guidance will provide sufficient information for
your purposes?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
5.
Do you consider that any aspects of the example reports have been inappropriately assigned to
the ‘required’, ‘if relevant / performed’ or ‘required if relevant’ categories?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
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Will the information required for reports allow the determination of whether the report certifier
is a suitably qualified and experienced practitioner?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Appendix B: Underground petroleum storage system removal
7.
The template provided is now an example only, to allow for the various hybrids of the original
template being used. Would you prefer to have a mandatory template?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
8.
Does the example template encourage the recording of the appropriate type of information to
allow assessments of sites where underground petroleum storage system removals have
occurred? Do you have any additional recommendations?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Other comments
9.
Does this guideline compliment Guideline No. 5?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
10. Do you have any further comments about Guideline No. 1?
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Contaminated Land Management Guidelines No. 5
Section 1: Introduction
11. Does this section provide adequate information on the purpose, use and scope of this guideline?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Section 2: Site assessment investigations
12. Does this section provide an adequate overview/scope of the types of investigations that are
typically carried out?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Section 3: Conceptual site model
13. Does this section provide adequate information and cover off all of the key aspects of a
conceptual site model?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Section 4: Soil investigation design
14. Does this section provide adequate information and cover off all of the key aspects of soil
investigation design?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
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15. Because each site is unique, the revised guidelines do not include a required number of samples
to be collected based on site size. Instead, the proposed changes require reports to include a
justification for the number of samples selected and potential limitations of the design adopted
in the context of the investigation objectives. Does the revised guideline provide sufficient
guidance to generate or review a sampling design and the number of samples collected?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Section 5: Undertaking detailed site investigations
16. Does this section provide a sufficient level of detail about undertaking detailed site
investigations?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Section 6: Laboratory analysis
17. Does this section on laboratory analysis provide sufficient guidance on what steps should be
undertaken following sample collection through to the receipt of sample results?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Section 7: Basics of data interpretation
18. Does this section provide a sufficient level of detail about the basics of data interpretation?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
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19. Are the tests detailed in this section appropriate for assessing what constitutes a guideline
exceedance?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
20. This section highlights that in appropriate situations it is acceptable to apply a 95% upper
confidence limit to demonstrate that the average soil quality at a site may not exceed a soil
guideline value. Is there enough guidance on how to appropriately use and review the 95%
upper confidence limit method?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Appendix A: Conceptual site model examples
21. The inclusion of example CSMs is new to this guideline. Does this add value to the guideline and
support the information provided in Section 3?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Appendix B: Hotspot detection
22. Does this appendix provide a sufficient level of detail about hotspot detection?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
23. Table B1 has been expanded from previous versions of the guideline and provides worked
examples of the Appendix B formulas to assist in understanding the relationship between grid
size, hot spot size, and the investigation area. Do you have any comments on this table?
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24. Is it clear that table B1 in Appendix B is not intended to define the number of samples for sites if
a systematic sampling approach is being used?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Appendix C: Detection limits
25. Does this appendix provide a sufficient level of detail about detection limits?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Appendix D: Example of determining uncertainty using duplicate and replicate samples
26. Is the example provided sufficient?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
Other comments
27. Does this guideline compliment Guideline No. 1?
Yes
No
What are your concerns and recommendations?
28. Do you have any further comments about Guideline No. 5?
Submissions close at 12.00 noon on Tuesday 8 March 2016.
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