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• National Pollutant Inventory - Guide Version 5 - March 2009 (PDF - 529 KB) | (RTF - 1,614 KB)

About the guide

The National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) is an Australian database of emissions from various industrial facility sources, and diffuse sources. The NPI Guide helps facility managers or operators estimate emissions for the NPI. It helps a facility find out whether it needs to report its emissions of NPI substances.

The NPI Guide will take you step by step through the reporting process.

The NPI Guide contains the following information:

• Section 1: About the National Pollutant Inventory
• Section 2: Determining if any thresholds have been tripped
• Section 3: Estimating NPI emissions
• Section 4: Estimating NPI substances in transfers of waste
• Section 5: Emission reduction activities
• Section 6: How to report NPI emissions and transfers
• Appendix A: Complete list of the 93 NPI substances
• Appendix B: Additional NPI substance data
• Appendix C: Unit conversion factors
• Appendix D: Toxic equivalency factors
• Appendix E: Erratum for the NPI Guide

First published in 1998
Version 5 - March 2009
National Pollutant Inventory
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

See also

• Estimating NPI emissions
• Lodging NPI reports
• More about NPI industry reporting