Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter provides an overview of existing and developing sediment-relevant legislation and describes the influence of nonregulatory drivers on it. The chapter highlights a number of legislative and policy provisions that exist for the appropriate management of sediment quality and quantity issues. Waste regulation with respect to dredging issues also applies at very specific sites and principally applies in respect of disposal options rather than the need to dredge. The dredging of contaminated sediments only occurs where other legislation highlights this as a problem needing to be addressed or when sediments dredged for maintenance purposes are found to contain sufficiently high levels of specific substances that they have to be designated as contaminated. A sediment management framework needs to be developed to integrate, clarify, support, and further the legislation and regulations that currently exist for sediment management.
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