Page 87 - Week 01 - Tuesday, 22 February 1994
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Mr. Wood - the answer to the Member's question is as follows:
1. The 1993/94 budget allocation for the EPS is $ 335,520. This
figure comprises: salaries $ 281,090, other expenditure $54,430.
2. The EPS is staffed by five inspectors and a manager.
3. The five inspectors are Technical Officers Grade 4 and the manager
is a Senior Officer (Technical) Grade C.
4. One inspector performs the on-call duty at any one time for a seven
day period. This duty is allocated by a rotating roster system.
5. When investigating a complaint, EPS officers have certain powers of
entry and search. These powers are described in detail in the ,.
pollution control legislation which is enforced by the- EPS (the
Water Pollution Act 1984, Air Pollution. Act 1984, Noise Control Act
1988, Pesticides Act 1989, Ozone Protection Act 1991 and a section
of the Motor Traffic Act 1936 dealing with motor vehicle
emissions).
6. There is no separate allocation for overtime as it is included in
the figure for salaries. For 1992-93 approximately $11,800 was
spent on„overtime. .
7. All EPS statistics are recorded and summarised on a financial year
basis rather than by calendar year. In the period 1991/92 there
were 508 complaints and in 1992/93 there were a total of 321
complaints.-
8. 8.While the address of each complainant and the source of the
activity giving rise to the complaint is manually recorded it would
require considerable resources to attempt to sort-this information
into major geographical areas for complaints and complainants: It
will be possible to assemble this information once the current-
transfer of manual-records to a computerised system is completed.
9. Expenditure on complaint resolution is not separately identified.in
the EPS budget: In view of the integrated nature of the various
functions performed by-the EPS (which includes ongoing monitoring
of compliance with pollution control legislation and the provision
of information and advice on environment protection matters,. in
addition to complaint resolution), it would be difficult to
identify specific expenditure on complaint resolution:
10. Noise measurement procedures followed by EPS inspectors are fully detailed in section 5 of the Noise Control Manual,which is made under the Nose Control Act 1988. -
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