Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) In deciding a surrender application, the administering authority must—
(a) comply with any relevant regulatory requirement; and
(b) subject to paragraph (a), consider the following—
(i) the standard criteria;
(ii) any monitoring results relating to the rehabilitated area the subject of the application;
(iii) the final rehabilitation report for the environmental authority;
(iv) the audit statement for the environmental authority, or part of the environmental authority, the subject of the application;
(v) any relevant FRR assessment report;
(vi) another matter prescribed under an environmental protection policy or a regulation; and
(c) if a progressive certification has been given for a relevant mining tenement for the environmental authority—
(i) confirm that the certified rehabilitated area for the mining tenement still meets the criteria under section 266K against which it was certified; and
(ii) if the confirmation is made—give full effect to the certification.
(2) The authority must not grant the application unless—
(a) it is satisfied the conditions of the environmental authority (mining activities) have been complied with; or
(b) it is satisfied the land on which each relevant mining activity has been carried out has been satisfactorily rehabilitated; or
(c) it has approved a transitional environmental program and it is satisfied the land will be satisfactorily rehabilitated under the program; or
(d) a suitability statement has been given for the land and—
(i) the land has been removed from the environmental management register; or
(ii) a site management plan has been approved for the land; or
(e) if a regulation has prescribed another circumstance for this section—the administering authority is satisfied of the circumstance.