414Application for site closing certificate

414 Application for site closing certificate

(1) A greenhouse gas injection licensee may apply to the Minister for a site closing certificate in relation to a particular identified greenhouse gas storage formation specified in the licence.

(2) An application under this section must be accompanied by—

(a) a written report that sets out—

(i) the applicant's modelling of the behaviour of the greenhouse gas substance injected into the identified greenhouse gas storage formation; and

(ii) information relevant to that modelling; and

(iii) the applicant's analysis of that information; and

(b) a written report that sets out the applicant's assessment of—

(i) the behaviour of the greenhouse gas substance injected into the identified greenhouse gas storage formation; and

(ii) the expected migration pathway or pathways of that greenhouse gas substance; and

(iii) the short‑term consequences of the migration of that greenhouse gas substance; and

(iv) the long‑term consequences of the migration of that greenhouse gas substance; and

(c) the applicant's suggestions for the approach to be taken by the Commonwealth, after the issue of the certificate, to the monitoring of the behaviour of a greenhouse gas substance stored in the identified greenhouse gas storage formation; and

(3) Subsection (2) does not apply if there have not been any operations for the injection of a greenhouse gas substance into the identified greenhouse gas storage formation.