71Required information for offsets reports—general information

71  Required information for offsets reports—general information

  An offsets report about a project for a reporting period must include the following information:

 (a) a copy of any State or Territory licence in relation to the project landfill, as in force at the end of the reporting period;             

 (b) a list of the project activities that were carried out during the reporting period, including:

 (i) details of any additional project activity that began to be carried out after the section 22 application or section 128 application was made, or since the previous offsets report was given to the Regulator, and the date on which that activity commenced; and

 (ii) details of any project activity that was previously carried out, that has stopped being carried out since the previous offsets report was given to the Regulator, and the date on which that activity stopped;

 (c) a description of all sources of project emissions in respect of the project;

 (d) if landfill gas capture for biomethane has been carried out as part of the project—evidence that biogas sent to biogas upgrading systems is used to produce biomethane that can reasonably be expected to be combusted within Australia as a natural gas substitute;

 (e) if biomethane production has been carried out as part of the project:

 (i) details of the source of any biogas treated during the reporting period; and

 (ii) details of the biogas upgrading systems used for the project; and

 (iii) details about the end use, or anticipated end use, of the biomethane produced during the reporting period; and

 (iv) details about the measurement of the volume of biomethane sent out by biogas upgrading systems (QBM, K) in accordance with the monitoring requirements, and the point at which biomethane flow is measured; and

 (v) a declaration by the project proponent for the project that biomethane produced by all project biomethane facilities involved in the project during the reporting period can reasonably be expected to be combusted within Australia as a natural gas substitute.

Note: For the purposes of paragraph (d), evidence that biomethane produced by the project can reasonably be expected to be combusted within Australia as a natural gas substitute may include invoices or other records of commercial transactions in which biomethane is traded as a substitute for natural gas for a use that results in its combustion.