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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT 1994 - SECT 126A
Requirements for site-specific applications—particular resource projects and resource activities
126A Requirements for site-specific applications—particular resource
projects and resource activities
(1) This section applies to a site-specific application, involving the
exercise of underground water rights, for— (a) a resource project that
includes a resource tenure that is a mineral development licence, mining lease
or petroleum lease; or
(b) a resource activity for which the relevant tenure
is a mineral development licence, mining lease or petroleum lease.
(2) The
application must also state the following— (a) any proposed exercise of
underground water rights during the period in which resource activities will
be carried out under the relevant tenure;
(b) the areas in which underground
water rights are proposed to be exercised;
(c) for each aquifer affected, or
likely to be affected, by the exercise of underground water rights— (i) a
description of the aquifer; and
(ii) an analysis of the movement of
underground water to and from the aquifer, including how the aquifer interacts
with other aquifers and surface water; and
(iii) a description of the area of
the aquifer where the water level is predicted to decline because of the
exercise of underground water rights; and
(iv) the predicted quantities of
water to be taken or interfered with because of the exercise of underground
water rights during the period in which resource activities are carried out;
(d) the environmental values that will, or may, be affected by the exercise of
underground water rights and the nature and extent of the impacts on the
environmental values;
(e) any impacts on the quality of groundwater that
will, or may, happen because of the exercise of underground water rights
during or after the period in which resource activities are carried out;
(f)
strategies for avoiding, mitigating or managing the predicted impacts on the
environmental values stated for paragraph (d) or the impacts on the quality of
groundwater mentioned in paragraph (e) .
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