Queensland Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 189

(1) A submitted EM plan must—

(a) be in the approved form; and

(b) describe the following—

(i) each relevant mining tenement;

(ii) all relevant mining activities;

(iii) the land on which the mining activities are to be carried out;

(iv) the environmental values likely to be affected by the mining activities;

(v) the potential adverse and beneficial impacts of the mining activities on the environmental values; and

(c) state any code of environmental compliance and standard environmental conditions that are to apply to the relevant mining activities; and

(d) state, to the extent a code of environmental compliance does not apply to the relevant mining activities, the environmental protection commitments the applicant proposes for the mining activities to protect or enhance the environmental values under best practice environmental management; and

(da) to the extent the plan relates to mining activities in a wild river area—state the way in which the applicant proposes to minimise any adverse effect of the mining activities on the wild river area, having regard to the wild river declaration for the area; and

(e) contain enough other information to allow the administering authority to decide the application and conditions to be imposed on the environmental authority; and

(f) another matter prescribed under an environmental protection policy or a regulation.

(2) The environmental protection commitments must—

(a) be stated in a way that allows them to be measured and to be audited under part 11; and

(b) state the environmental protection objectives and the standards and measurable indicators, including, for example, objectives for progressive and final rehabilitation and management of contaminated land; and

(c) include—

(i) an action program to ensure the commitments are achieved or implemented, including, for example, programs for the following in relation to the mining activities—

• continuous improvement

• environmental auditing

• monitoring

• reporting

• staff training; and

(ii) a rehabilitation program for land proposed to be disturbed under each relevant mining tenement.

(3) The rehabilitation program must state a proposed amount of financial assurance.