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❓ Hon Robin Chapple requests a summary of EPA's environmental impact assessments over the past five years, including proposal details, proponent, assessment level, approval status, and reasons. The Minister tabled the information, but it's not available as a single document on the EPA website, instead requiring review of individual project documents.

AnsweredQoN 4343Legislative Council

Asked

6 September 2016

Member

Hon Robin Chapple

Portfolio

Environment

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I refer to the Environmental Protection Authority's (EPA) environmental impact assessment of proposals and schemes referred to it under Part IV of the Environmental Protection Act 1986 , and I ask: (a) of all the proposals and schemes formally assessed for the past five years, excluding active formal assessments, will the Minister/and or department table a document outlining the following, providing a year by year summary: (i) the proposal title; (ii) the proponent; (iii) level of assessment; (iv) approved or not approved; and (v) reason for approved or not approved status; (b) if no to (a), why not; (c) is the information asked in (a), accessible to the public on the EPAs website, similar to the 'Status of Active Formal Assessments' document; and (d) if no to (c), why not?

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Answered

11 October 2016

Responded by

Minister for Planning representing the Minister for Environment

Response time

35 days

The Minister for Environment has provided the following response.
(a)(i)-(v) [See Tabled Paper No. #].
(b) Not applicable
(c) No.
(d) The information is not presented in a single document, but is available in the form of the individual Chairman’s Determinations, EPA reports, and Ministerial Statements for each project which are all available on the website.

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