Draft Guidelines
The Environment, Heritage and the Arts (EHA) Division prepares Draft Guidelines for a project which is required to be assessed under the Environmental Assessment Act in consultation with relevant advisory bodies. The Draft Guidelines provide advice to the proponent (developer) regarding the issues that will need to be addressed in an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) or Public Environmental Report (PER).
Draft guidelines are made available to the public for comment and review for a period of 14 days. At the close of this period, EHA takes into consideration any public comments and advice from relevant advisory bodies and finalises the Guidelines for approval by the Minister for Natural Resources, Environment and Heritage. Once approved, the Minister forwards the final Guidelines to the proponent with a direction to prepare a PER or EIS. Reports are available to the public as a hard copy at the EHA Division.
