Appendix 2

Proposals which may require some level of formal Environmental Assessment

• Proposals which could affect areas of high conservation value, endangered species, including wetlands, coastline, marine, arid areas, estuaries, and areas containing important or unique flora and fauna communities.
• Proposals which could affect important historic, cultural, archaeological, scenic, scientific or educational sites.
• Proposals involving significant land disturbance, e.g. land clearing for agriculture or forestry; urban and industrial sites; dredging; large extractive industries; surface paving; transport facilities.
• Proposals involving resource extraction, e.g. drilling; mining; blasting.
• Proposals involving modification of natural regimes, e.g. alteration of groundwater hydrology; drainage patterns; fauna movement; vegetation patterns.
• Major engineering works, e.g. power stations; transmission lines; roadworks; bridges; dams and impoundments; irrigation works; recreational structures.
• Establishment of:
  • major agro-industrial facilities, e.g. large piggeries; poultry farms; abattoirs; rendering plants; and
  • manufacturing and industrial process, e.g. oil refining and cement plants.
• Proposals involving waste treatment and disposal, or have the potential to pollute e.g. ocean dumpings; landfill; disposal of tailings, spoil and overburden; cooling water discharge; spray irrigation; liquid effluent discharge; stack and exhaust emissions.
• Proposals which are likely to have a major impact on the social environment of surrounding or nearby communities.
• Proposals which may involve a significant risk or hazard to public safety and the environment.

 

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