24Additional information and documents—any kind of facility activity

24  Additional information and documents—any kind of facility activity

 (1) This section applies to an application for a licence to authorise any kind of facility activity.

 (2) Baseline radiological data for the site of the NNP facility, or proposed NNP facility, obtained prior to the siting of the facility is required.

 (a) a description of the level of nuclear safety risk posed by the activity proposed to be authorised;

 (b) information that demonstrates how the following has been considered in assessing that level of risk:

 (i) the hazard level and complexity of the activity;

 (ii) the characteristics of the NNP facility, or proposed NNP facility, and its site or proposed site;

 (iii) potential risks to persons proposed to be authorised to conduct the activity, to likely occupationally exposed persons, to the public and to the environment;

 (iv) any other technical, human or organisational factor relevant to the activity that could pose a reasonably foreseeable risk to nuclear safety;

 (c) details of the types, categories, forms and quantities of any NNP material or NNP equipment or plant that would be, or could be, involved in the conduct of the activity;

 (d) information that demonstrates that the applicant has considered, in relation to the conduct of the activity, all regulated activities that could reasonably be foreseen to be conducted in relation to the NNP facility, or proposed NNP facility, over its lifetime;

 (e) details of the consultation undertaken with stakeholders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the public in relation to the activity and the NNP facility or proposed NNP facility;

 (f) subject to subsection (4), information and documents that describe and document how all conditions applying to the licence (the previous licensing stage) authorising the most recent previous facility activity in relation to the NNP facility, or proposed NNP facility, have been complied with.

Note 1: For the purposes of paragraph (e), matters in relation to which consultation may need to be undertaken include the development of a plan or safety case for the activity.

Note 2: For the purposes of paragraph (f), this includes conditions specified by the Regulator for the purposes of paragraph 32(1)(c) or subsection 34(2) of the Act. To issue the licence, the Regulator must take the extent of compliance with conditions into account: see paragraph 43(3)(c) of this instrument.

 (4) Paragraph (3)(f) does not apply if:

 (a) the application is for a licence to authorise a facility activity of preparing a site for an NNP facility in a designated zone; or

 (b) the licence authorising the most recent previous facility activity in relation to the NNP facility, or proposed NNP facility, is a transitional licence; or