11Notice of decision on environment plan, publication of accepted plan and submission and publication of summary

#### 11 Notice of decision on environment plan, publication of accepted plan and submission and publication of summary Notice to titleholder (1) The Regulator must give the titleholder notice in writing of a decision by the Regulator to: (a) accept the environment plan; or (b) refuse to accept the plan; or (c) accept the plan in part for a particular stage of the activity, or subject to limitations or conditions. > Note: For a petroleum activity, NOPSEMA must not accept the environment plan unless NOPSEMA is reasonably satisfied that the titleholder is compliant with subsection 571(2) of the Act in relation to the petroleum activity and the compliance is in a form that is acceptable to NOPSEMA: see regulation 5G. (2) A notice of a decision mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) or (c) must set out: (a) the terms of the decision and the reasons for it; and (b) any limitations or conditions that are to apply to operations for the activity. Publication of notice etc. (2A) As soon as practicable after giving the notice of the decision to the titleholder, the Regulator must publish on the Regulator’s website: (a) a description of the decision; and (b) if the decision was to accept the environment plan (in whole or in part)—the plan with the sensitive information part removed; and (c) if: (i) the environment plan is a seismic or exploratory drilling environment plan on which one or more comments described in subregulation 11B(2) were received (whether or not the plan was modified after the comments were made); and (ii) the decision was to accept the plan (in whole or in part); a statement by the Regulator as to how the Regulator took the comments into account in making the decision. (2B) The statement by the Regulator must not include sensitive information relating to the plan from the comments. Submission of summary of accepted plan (3) Within 10 days after receiving notice that the Regulator has accepted an environment plan (whether in full, in part or subject to limitations or conditions), the titleholder must submit a summary of the accepted plan to the Regulator for public disclosure. (4) The summary: (a) must include the following material from the environment plan: (i) the location of the activity; (ii) a description of the receiving environment; (iii) a description of the activity; (iv) details of environmental impacts and risks; (v) a summary of the control measures for the activity; (vi) a summary of the arrangements for ongoing monitoring of the titleholder’s environmental performance; (vii) a summary of the response arrangements in the oil pollution emergency plan; (viii) details of consultation already undertaken, and plans for ongoing consultation; (ix) details of the titleholder’s nominated liaison person for the activity; and (b) must be to the satisfaction of the Regulator. Publication of summary (5) As soon as practicable after receiving the summary, the Regulator must publish it on the Regulator’s website.