The Project
The project involves expansion of Boral's Mugga Quarry operations through establishment of a new permanent overburden bund and temporary emplacement area to store quarried overburden and weathered rock material. The new bund and emplacement area will be located to the north and east of the quarry pit extent between Mugga Lane and Callum Brae Nature Reserve within the leased area. The EIS has been prepared by EMM Consulting Pty Ltd (EMM) on behalf of Boral Resources (Country) Pty Ltd.
EIS Process
The Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) details the anticipated environmental impacts of a development, as well as proposing avoidance and mitigation measures. A proponent prepares an EIS to enable decision makers to understand the environmental consequences of a proposed development. The EIS is required to address matters raised in the scoping document for the proposal.
Find out more about the EIS process.
Public Consultation
In accordance with the Act, the proponent prepared and submitted a draft EIS to the planning and land authority. The draft EIS was open for comments for 20 working days with the comment period ending on 15 February 2019. The draft EIS public notification period was extended due to an error in the original notification of the draft EIS, and was further notified from 15 February 2019 to 18 March 2019.
No public representations were received during the public consultation period.
Current Status: EIS process complete
The Delegate of the planning and land authority provided the final EIS and an EIS assessment report to the Minister for Planning and Land Management who, on 8 October 2019, decided to take no action on the EIS, meaning the EIS process is now complete.
The proponent lodged a DA (DA201936482) for this proposal for assessment in the impact track and this has undergone a separate assessment process informed by the EIS. The DA assessment considered whether the potential environmental impacts of the proposal were acceptable and also considered any community representations made during the public notification period for the DA. The EIS expires five years after the day it is completed.
DAs are notified on the Planning website.
Application and supporting documents
EIS Assessment Report
- Schedule-Final-EIS-assessment-report-EIS-201800033.pdf [5.1 MB]
- Signed-NI.pdf [111.4 KB]
Revised EIS and supporting documentation
Scoping document
Scoping document application
- APP-201800033-02.pdf [64.3 KB]
- SUPP-201800033-EIS-SCOPING-DOCUMENT-02.pdf [5.8 MB]
