Environmental Protection Regulation 2019

This section applies if, under section 754 of the Act, the administering authority has given a mining EA holder a notice requiring the holder to give the administering authority a proposed PRC plan.

Schedule 8A, part 3, table 1 does not apply for conducting a PRCP objective assessment of the proposed PRCP schedule for the plan to the extent that—

a land outcome document provides for an outcome for the land the subject of the proposed PRCP schedule; and

the outcome for the land is the same as or substantially similar to the outcome for the land as if it were a post-mining land use or non-use management area under the plan.

Also, the PRCP objective and PRCP performance outcomes stated in schedule 8A, part 3, table 2, entry for ‘Rehabilitation Milestones’ do not apply for conducting a PRCP objective assessment of the proposed PRCP schedule for the plan to the extent that—

a land outcome document states criteria for achieving an outcome provided for in the document for land; and

the same or substantially similar criteria are proposed in the plan for the outcome.

In addition, the PRCP objective and PRCP performance outcomes stated in schedule 8A, part 3, table 3, entry for ‘Management Milestones’ do not apply for conducting a PRCP objective assessment of the proposed PRCP schedule for the plan to the extent that—

a land outcome document states criteria for achieving an outcome provided for in the document for land; and

the same or substantially similar criteria are proposed in the plan for the outcome.

For applying subsection (2), (3) or (4), if there is an inconsistency in land outcome documents for land, the document appearing first in the list mentioned in section 750 of the Act, definition land outcome document, prevails to the extent of the inconsistency.

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