23Authority to conduct activities

#### 23 Authority to conduct activities (1) This section applies to: (a) the Commonwealth; and (b) a Commonwealth entity; and (c) a Commonwealth contractor; and (d) an employee or agent of a person mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c). (2) A person to whom this section applies may, in relation to the selected site, do anything necessary for or incidental to any or all of the following: (a) gathering or preparing information for a Commonwealth regulatory scheme that relates to: (i) the construction or operation of a facility; or (ii) anything done in preparation for the construction or operation of a facility; (b) conducting activities that relate to gathering or preparing information for such a regulatory scheme; (c) preparing the selected site for a facility; (d) preparing to construct and operate a facility; (e) constructing a facility; (f) constructing roads on, or grading, land in a State or Territory; (g) erecting fences and other access controls on land specified in the declaration under subsection 14(4); (h) operating a facility; (i) maintaining a facility; (j) keeping a facility safe; (k) decommissioning a facility. (3) Without limiting subsection (2), the person may, under that subsection, do a thing mentioned in subsection 11(3) in relation to the selected site. (4) Subsection (2) extends to doing things outside the selected site. (5) A person to whom this section applies may, in relation to the selected site: (a) transport (including through a State or Territory) people and materials (including controlled material) to or from a facility; and (b) use transport infrastructure for that transport.