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Fast-track Approvals Bill

Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects - Process for panel consideration of substantive application - Substantive applications

24H: Withdrawal of substantive application

You could also call this:

“How to cancel your big approval request before it's finished”

You can stop your request for approvals in a substantive application at any time before the panel makes a recommendation. To do this, you need to write a notice to some people.

You must send the notice to the EPA. If you’ve already asked for help from the chief executive, you need to tell them too. If you’ve already invited people to give comments about your application, you need to let those people know as well.

After you send your notice to the EPA, they will tell the panel that you’ve stopped your application as soon as they can.

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Part 2 Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects
Process for panel consideration of substantive application: Substantive applications

24HWithdrawal of substantive application

  1. At any time before the panel makes a recommendation under section 24W on the approvals sought in a substantive application, the authorised person who lodged the application may withdraw the application by giving written notice—

  2. to the EPA; and
    1. if the withdrawal occurs after a request is made under section 24FA , to the chief executive; and
      1. if the withdrawal occurs after persons or groups are invited to provide written comments under section 24AC or 24M , to those persons or groups.

        1. As soon as practicable after receiving a notice under subsection (1)(a) , the EPA must advise the panel that the substantive application has been withdrawn.