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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Report findings
   • Report the assessment of environmental condition in the required format and expected timeframe
   • Brief supervisor and stakeholders about the environmental assessment process and outcomes
2. Read and interpret existing site or locality information
   • Confirm the scope of the proposed project and details of the site or locality
3. Identify legislative, regulatory and planning requirements
4. Access, read and interpret available information about the site or locality
5. Summarise existing data and relate it to legislative, planning and organisational requirements
6. Identify relevant environmental indicators for site or locality
   • Determine which environmental indicators and statutory environmental quality concentration limits are relevant to the proposed project and requirements of the site or locality
7. Identify core environmental indicators and collect and collate data
8. Identify statutory environmental quality concentration limits and collect and collate data
9. Identify additional site, locality or project specific environmental indicators and collect and collate data
10. Identify gaps in available data and refer to supervisor for further action
11. Read and analyse data to establish site condition
    • Ensure compatibility of data sets and seek advice
12. Compare compatible data with core environmental indicators, established standards, regulatory limits, and statutory environmental quality concentration limits
13. Apply environmental chemistry and biodiversity concepts and principles to estimate the environmental health of the site or locality
14. Identify significant trends in environmental data and correlations and differences with indicators
15. Make a final assessment of site condition
    • Report the assessment of environmental condition in the required format and expected timeframe
16. Brief supervisor and stakeholders about the environmental assessment process and outcomes