Environmental Protection Act 1994

the benefit, including the significance of the benefit, to the community resulting from the mining activity or resource project the subject of the environmental authority application to which the PRCP schedule relates;

any impacts, including long-term impacts for the environment or the community, that may reduce the benefit mentioned in paragraph (a) or have other negative impacts on the environment or community;

whether there are any alternative options to approving the area as a non-use management area having regard to—

the costs or other consequences of the alternative options; and

the impact of the costs or other consequences on the financial viability of the mining activity or resource project;

whether the benefit to the community mentioned in paragraph (a), weighed against the impacts mentioned in paragraph (b), is likely to justify the approval of the non-use management area having regard to any alternative options mentioned in paragraph (c);

another matter prescribed by regulation.