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Fast-track Approvals Bill

Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects - Process for panel consideration of substantive application - Suspension of processing substantive application

24S: Authorised person may request suspension of processing substantive application

You could also call this:

“You can ask to pause your fast-track approval application after it's given to a panel”

If you’ve applied for a fast-track approval, you can ask to pause the process. You need to write to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to make this request. You can only ask for a pause after the EPA has given your application to a panel, but before the panel makes its final decision.

The panel can choose whether to pause the process or not when you ask. If they do pause it, the EPA will tell you and other important people about it. They’ll let you know the date when the panel paused your application.

The EPA will also tell any government agencies that were asked for advice about your application. If these agencies haven’t finished their advice yet, they have to stop working on it when the process is paused.

If the EPA asked the chief executive for a recommendation and they haven’t made it yet, the EPA will tell them to stop working on it too. The EPA will also tell any people or groups who were invited to comment on your application.

Remember, just because you ask for a pause doesn’t mean it will happen. It’s up to the panel to decide.

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

24SAuthorised person may request suspension of processing substantive application

  1. The authorised person who lodged a substantive application may make a written request to the EPA that processing of the application be suspended.

  2. A request may be made only in the period between—

  3. the time when the EPA provides the substantive application to a panel under section 24F ; and
    1. the time when a panel makes its decisions under section 24W on the approvals sought in the application.

      1. A panel may, at its discretion, suspend the processing of a substantive application when a request is made under subsection (1) .

      2. If a panel grants a suspension, the EPA must give notice of the date on which the panel suspended processing of the application to—

      3. the authorised person who lodged the substantive application; and
        1. if advice or a report has been requested from an agency under section 24G and is yet to be provided to the EPA, that agency; and
          1. if a recommendation has been requested from the chief executive under section 24FA and is yet to be made, the chief executive; and
            1. if persons or groups have been invited to provide comments under section 24AC or 24M , those persons or groups.

              1. A person who receives a notice under subsection (4)(b) or (c) must suspend processing of the substantive application.