233RSubstantial disturbance of mining site

233R Substantial disturbance of mining site (1) For section 124L(2) of the Act, substantial disturbance of a mining site includes any of the following: (a) land clearing; (b) earthworks, including cutting, filling, excavating or trenching; (c) aboveground works, including works for building roads, buildings, bridges, railways or airstrips or works for establishing conveyors, pipelines, telephone lines or power lines; (d) underground works, including works in connection with tunnels, wells, pipelines, conduits or cables; (e) waterworks, including works in connection with dams, impoundments, canals or the drainage or alteration of river or creek banks, water courses or shorelines; (f) extracting resources from the surface of the land, underground, riverbeds or under the sea; (g) stockpiling ore, overburden, waste materials or by-products; (h) establishing seismic lines, drill pads, drill holes, grids, tracks or costeans; (i) establishing a camp for the workers; (j) blasting; (k) active remote sensing and seismic techniques in water, including seismic surveys in the marine environment; (l) an activity that is likely to have a significant impact on flora or fauna. (2) For section 124L(2) of the Act, a seismic survey carried out in relation to land other than in water or in the marine environment does not constitute substantial disturbance of a mining site if the survey does not involve land clearing or any other environmental impact.

Subdivision 2 Process for assessment of environmental (mining) licence Environment Protection Regulations 2020 116 Subdivision 2 Process for assessment of environmental (mining) licence 233S Publication of documents (1) The Minister must publish the following as soon as practicable after an application for a modified condition licence or a tailored condition licence is received: (a) the application for the environmental (mining) licence; (b) any additional information given in response to a direction given under section 124ZF of the Act. (2) Subregulation (1) does not apply if the application relates to a mining activity for which an environmental approval has been granted or is required. (3) For this regulation, an application for a standard condition licence that the Minister has determined, under section 124ZG(2) of the Act, to treat as an application for a modified condition licence or a tailored condition licence is taken to have been received on the making of that determination.