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Fast-track Approvals Bill

Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects - Process for panel consideration of substantive application - Opportunity for comment on substantive application

24O: Response to comments provided under section 24M

You could also call this:

“The EPA tells you about people's comments on your application, and you can respond”

If someone gives comments about an application, the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) must send these comments to the person who made the application. This person is called the authorised person.

You, as the authorised person, can reply to these comments. You have 5 working days to do this after a certain date. This date is set by another rule.

A group of people, called a panel, will look at your application. They must consider your reply if you send it within the 5 working days. If you send your reply late, they don’t have to look at it. But they can if they want to, as long as they haven’t made their final decision yet.

The panel’s job is to decide whether to approve your application. They make this decision based on a different rule.

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“Rules for when the EPA asks for your thoughts on a big project”

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Part 2 Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects
Process for panel consideration of substantive application: Opportunity for comment on substantive application

24OResponse to comments provided under section 24M

  1. The EPA must forward copies of any comments received under section 24M to the authorised person who lodged the substantive application.

  2. The authorised person may provide the EPA with a response to the comments not later than 5 working days after the date specified under section 24N(1) .

  3. The panel—

  4. must consider any response received within that time frame:
    1. is not required to consider any response received after that time frame, but may do so, in its discretion, as long as the panel has not made its decisions on the approvals sought in the substantive application under section 24W .