19 The environmental impact statement obtained was voluminous, as is common for activities subject to Div 4 of Pt 5. With the species impact statement, it comprised nine volumes of material, excluding the summary brochure. The volumes are not consecutively page numbered, but each contained about 300 to 400 pages of text, diagrams, graphs, statistics, survey and modelling details, and analyses.
(1) Volume 1 contained a description of the Tugun Bypass, the approvals process, the community and stakeholder consultation, the need for the Bypass, the alternatives and preferred option, the proposed construction of the Bypass, the impacts of the Bypass on the physical and biological environment, a hazard and risk analysis, the impacts of the Bypass on the socio-economic environment, noise and vibration, cultural heritage, visual assessment, cumulative impacts, environmental management and monitoring, economic assessment, environmental sustainability, justification, as well as some 86 tables, 68 figures, and eight appendices. One of the tables (table 18.1) compiled the proponent's proposed mitigation measures.