State Development and Public Works Organisation Regulation 2020

A report under section 34D(2) or 34L(2) of the Act must contain the following matters—

a description of—

the project; and

the places affected by the project; and

the controlling provisions for the project;

a summary of the project’s relevant impacts;

a description of feasible mitigation measures, or changes to the project or procedures, proposed by the proponent or suggested in relevant submissions, to prevent or minimise the project’s relevant impacts;

to the extent practicable, a description of feasible alternatives to the project identified in the EIS process or IAR process for the project, and the likely impact of the alternatives on matters of national environmental significance;

a statement of conditions of approval for the project that may be imposed to address impacts, identified in the EIS process or IAR process for the project, on matters of national environmental significance;

a statement of requirements for, and conditions of, approval applying, or proposed to apply, to the project when the report is prepared, including a description of the monitoring, enforcement and review procedures applying, or proposed to apply, to the project.

After completing the report, the Coordinator-General must give a copy of it to the Commonwealth Minister.

In this section—

for a draft EIS—section 34 of the Act; or

for a draft IAR—section 34 of the Act, as applied under section 34H(3) of the Act.