168Site plans—approval (Part B of plan)

168 Site plans—approval (Part B of plan)

(1) For the purposes of section 492(3) of the Act, this regulation sets out requirements which must be complied with before the Minister approves a site plan.

(2) The site plan must include a part that is presented as "Part B".

(3) Part B must not be inconsistent with the declaration under section 318 of the Act of the identified greenhouse gas storage formation.

The declaration includes—

(a) an estimate of the spatial extent of the storage formation; and

(b) fundamental suitability determinants.

(4) Schedule 5 specifies the information that must be set out in Part B.

(5) For the purposes of section 501(2) of the Act, the Minister may make publicly available any of the following information held by the State—

(a) the results of the monitoring of any leakages of a greenhouse gas substance stored in a part of a geological formation as a result of transportation or an injection activity; and

(b) any raw data collected during the monitoring.