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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 930 asked in the Legislative Council on 18 October 2022 by Hon Tjorn Sibma

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION (COST RECOVERY) REGULATIONS 2021 — FEES

930. Hon TJORN SIBMA to the minister representing the Minister for Environment:

I refer to the response the minister provided on 12 October that advised of an ''unprecedented number of environmental assessments'' at the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation.

(1) What is this unprecedented number that the minister was unable to provide in response to my follow-up question of 13 October?

(2) Will the minister please list the individual project proposals against which the environmental assessments are being, or are due to be, conducted?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question. The following answer has been provided to me by the Minister for Environment.

(1) At the June 2022 budget estimates in this place, the following information on the number of assessments under part IV of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 being undertaken by the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation was provided. This part of the answer is tabular form and I seek leave to have it incorporated into Hansard.

[Leave granted for the following material to be incorporated.]

Assessment type

Estimates in June 2022

Referrals under section 38

40

Formal Assessments under section 38

75

Referrals/Assessments under section 48A (schemes)

20

Minor amendments to proposals (section 45C)

30

Amendments to implementation conditions (section 46)

40

Environmental Management Plans

130

Total

335

 

The answer goes on but, again, this information is in tabular form, and I seek leave to have it incorporated into Hansard.

[Leave granted for the following material to be incorporated.]

The current information is presented below:

Assessment type

No.

Referrals under section 38

31

Formal Assessments under section 38

81

Referrals/ Assessments under section 48A (schemes)

21

Minor amendments to proposals (section 45C)

27

Amendments to implementation conditions (section 46)

37

Environmental Management Plans

147

Total

344

 

The honourable member is further advised that the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation publishes quarterly regulatory performance reports on its website.

(2) It is requested that this question is put on notice due to the detailed nature of the information required.