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Fast-track Approvals Bill

Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects - Process for panel consideration of substantive application - Provisions relating to information

24J: EPA may request information from relevant administering agencies and local authorities

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“EPA can ask for important project information from other agencies”

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) can ask for information from agencies and local authorities that manage projects. This information must be about a Part A listed project or a referred project. It also needs to be important for looking at a current or future application.

You can ask for this information at any time, even before you get the main application. When you ask, you can set a date for when you need the information.

The agency or local authority must do one of three things:

  1. Give you the information by the date you set.
  2. Tell you they will give you the information, but not by the date you set.
  3. Tell you they don’t have the information. If they know who has it, they should tell you.

If they can’t give you the information by the date you set, they must give it to you 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: Provisions relating to information

24JEPA may request information from relevant administering agencies and local authorities

  1. This section applies to information that the EPA considers—

  2. is held by a relevant administering agency or a local authority; and
    1. relates to a Part A listed project or a referred project; and
      1. is necessary for considering a current or anticipated substantive application.

        1. The EPA, at any time before or after it receives the substantive application, may request the relevant administering agency or local authority to provide the information and set a date by which the information must be made available.

        2. The relevant administering agency or local authority must,—

        3. within the time specified by the EPA, provide the information requested; or
          1. advise the EPA that the information will be available, but not within the time specified by the EPA; or
            1. advise the EPA that the agency or local authority does not hold the information and, if the agency or local authority knows where the information is held, advise the EPA accordingly.

              1. If a relevant administering agency or local authority is unable to provide the information requested under subsection (2) by the date specified under that subsection, the agency or local authority must provide the information as soon as practicable.