ItemProposalAgency
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Proposal that involves:

  • electricity transmission line works that are over 500m in length and 132kV or more.
  • most electricity generating stations, including:
    • from coal
    • from other energy sources, such as gas, solar and wind that can supply more than 10MW to 20 MW of power, or
    • any that discharges water that is likely to vary a receiving water body’s temperature by more than 2°C.
  • electricity storage facilities (e.g., batteries) that can supply more than 150MW of power.
Territory Planning Authority
4 Proposal for construction of a water storage dam in a river corridor zone (NUZ4), or on a continuously flowing river in any non-urban zone (NUZ1 to NUZ5.

Tip: Information on land use zones is available on the Territory Plan map overlay on ACTmapi.
Conservator of Flora and Fauna
15 Proposal that involves the storage of the placard quantity of a Schedule 11 hazardous chemical (unless listed in the Planning and Development (Placard Quantity Premises) List 2018.

Tip: Schedule 11 in the Work Health and Safety Regulation 2011 lists hazardous chemicals and placard quantities and Planning and Development (Placard Quantity Premises) List 2018 lists premises exempt from requiring an EIA in relation to this trigger.
Territory Planning Authority
16

Proposal that is likely to have a significant adverse environmental impact on any of the following:

  • critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable, conservation dependent species, protected native or any other protected species.
  • a listed migratory species
  • a threatened ecological community, or
  • a Ramsar wetland.

Tip: Distribution models of threatened species and communities are overlays in Significant Species, Vegetation Communities and Registered Trees Map of ACTmapi. Find more information on ACT threatened species.

Conservator of Flora and Fauna
17 Proposal involving the clearance of 0.5 hectares of native vegetation, or more than 5 hectares in a future urban area.

Tip: Future urban areas are on the Territory Plan map overlay on ACTmapi.
Conservator of Flora and Fauna
18 Development in a reserve, which includes wilderness areas, national parks, nature reserves, catchment areas or special purpose reserves.

Tip: Reserves are shown on the Territory Plan map overlay of ACTmapi.
Conservator of Flora and Fauna
21 Proposals likely to have a significant adverse impact on a heritage registered place or object.

Tip: The location of heritage sites is shown on the Heritage map overlay on ACTmapi. More information is also available on the ACT Heritage Register.
ACT Heritage Council
23 Proposal involving land on the register of contaminated sites. Territory Planning Authority
25Proposals that are likely to result in a key threatening process under the Nature Conservation Act 2014.Conservator of Flora and Fauna