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Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Environment) Regulations 2023
34Criteria for acceptance of environment plan
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34 Criteria for acceptance of environment plan
For the purposes of section 33, the criteria for acceptance of an environment plan (the environment plan acceptance criteria) for an activity are that the plan:
(a) is appropriate for the nature and scale of the activity; and
(b) demonstrates that the environmental impacts and risks of the activity will be reduced to as low as reasonably practicable; and
(c) demonstrates that the environmental impacts and risks of the activity will be of an acceptable level; and
(d) provides for appropriate environmental performance outcomes, environmental performance standards and measurement criteria; and
(e) includes an appropriate implementation strategy and monitoring, recording and reporting arrangements; and
(f) does not involve the activity or part of the activity, other than arrangements for environmental monitoring or for responding to an emergency, being undertaken in any part of a declared World Heritage property; and
(g) demonstrates that:
(i) the titleholder has carried out the consultations required by section 25; and
(ii) the measures (if any) that the titleholder has adopted, or proposes to adopt, because of the consultations are appropriate; and
(h) complies with the Act, this instrument and any other regulations made under the Act.