17Contents of draft or final master plan—things to be addressed in environment strategy

17 Contents of draft or final master plan—things to be addressed in environment strategy

(1) This section is made for the purposes of subsection 71(5) of the Act. (2) In specifying, under subparagraph 71(2)(h)(i) or (3)(h)(i) of the Act, the airport‑lessee company’s objectives for the environmental management of the airport, the draft or final master plan must address the company’s policies and targets for: (a) continuous improvement in the environmental consequences of activities at the airport; and (b) progressive reduction in extant pollution at the airport; and (c) development and adoption of a comprehensive environmental management system for the airport that maintains consistency with relevant Australian and international standards; and (d) identification, and conservation, by the airport‑lessee company and other operators of undertakings at the airport, of objects and matters at the airport that have natural, indigenous or heritage value; and (e) involvement of the local community and airport users in development of any future strategy; and (f) dissemination of the strategy to sublessees, licensees, other airport users and the local community. (3) In specifying, under subparagraph 71(2)(h)(ii) or (3)(h)(ii) of the Act, the areas within the airport site which the airport‑lessee company, in consultation with State and Federal conservation bodies, identifies as environmentally significant, the draft or final master plan must address: (a) any relevant recommendation of the Australian Heritage Council; and (b) any relevant recommendation of the Environment Department regarding biota, habitat, heritage or similar matters; and (c) any relevant recommendation of a body established in the State in which the airport is located, having responsibilities in relation to conservation of biota, habitat, heritage or similar matters. (4) In specifying, under subparagraph 71(2)(h)(iii) or (3)(h)(iii) of the Act, the sources of environmental impact associated with airport operations or civil aviation operations at the airport (as appropriate), the draft or final master plan must address: (a) the quality of air at the airport site, and in so much of the regional airshed as is reasonably likely to be affected by airport activities; and (b) water quality, including potentially affected groundwater, estuarine waters and marine waters; and (c) soil quality, including that of land known to be already contaminated; and (d) release, into the air, of substances that deplete stratospheric ozone; and (e) generation and handling of hazardous waste and any other kind of waste; and (f) usage of natural resources (whether renewable or non‑renewable); and (g) usage of energy the production of which generates emissions of greenhouse gases (within the meaning of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007); and (h) generation of noise. (5) In specifying, under subparagraph 71(2)(h)(iv) or (3)(h)(iv) of the Act, the studies, reviews and monitoring to be carried out by the airport‑lessee company in connection with the environmental impact associated with airport operations or civil aviation operations at the airport (as the case may be), the draft or final master plan must address: (a) the matters mentioned in paragraph 16(2)(a) and in subsections (3) and (4) of this section; and (b) the scope, identified by the airport‑lessee company, for conservation of objects and matters at the airport that have natural, indigenous or heritage value; and (c) the approaches and measures identified by the airport‑lessee company as its preferred conservation approaches and measures; and (d) the professional qualifications that must be held by a person carrying out the monitoring; and (e) the proposed systems of testing, measuring and sampling to be carried out for possible, or suspected, pollution or excessive noise; and (f) the proposed frequency of routine reporting of monitoring results to the airport environment officer (if any) for the airport, or to the Secretary. (6) In specifying, under subparagraph 71(2)(h)(vi) or (3)(h)(vi) of the Act, the specific measures to be carried out by the airport‑lessee company for the purposes of preventing, controlling or reducing the environmental impact associated with airport operations or civil aviation operations at the airport (as the case may be), the draft or final master plan must address: (a) the matters mentioned in subsections (2) to (4) of this section; and (b) the means by which the airport‑lessee company proposes to achieve the cooperation of other operators of undertakings at the airport in carrying out those measures.