Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) (Extractive Industries) Regulations 2019

Subregulation (2) applies to a work plan lodged on or after 1 July 2021.

For the purposes of regulation 7(d), the specified information is details of the proposed rehabilitation of land disturbed by work under the work plan including—

proposed land uses for the affected land after it has been rehabilitated, that considers community views expressed during consultation; and

a land form that will be achieved to complete rehabilitation, which must—

be safe, stable and sustainable; and

be capable of supporting the proposed land uses referred to in paragraph (a); and

objectives that set out distinct rehabilitation domains that collectively amount to the land form described in paragraph (b); and

criteria for measuring whether the objectives described in paragraph (c) have been met; and

a description of, and schedule for, each measureable, significant event or step in the process of rehabilitation; and

an identification and assessment of relevant risks that the rehabilitated land may pose to the environment, to any member of the public or to land, property or infrastructure in the vicinity of the rehabilitated land, including—

the type, likelihood and consequence of the risks; and

the activities required to manage the risks; and

the projected costs to manage the risks; and

any other matter that may be relevant to risks arising from the rehabilitated land.

Subregulation (4) applies to a work plan lodged on or after commencement of these regulations but before 1 July 2021.

For the purposes of regulation 7(d), the specified information is—

concepts for the end utilisation of the proposed quarry site; and

proposals for the progressive rehabilitation, stabilisation and revegetation of extraction areas, waste disposal areas, stockpile areas, dams and other land affected by the operations; and

proposals for landscaping to minimise the visual impact of the quarry site; and

proposals for the final rehabilitation and closure of the site, including the security of the site and the removal of plant and equipment, taking into account any potential long-term degradation of the environment.

In this regulation—