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.