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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Panel consideration of substantive application - Suspension of processing substantive application

64: Applicant may request suspension of processing substantive application

You could also call this:

“You can ask to pause your application review”

You can ask the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) in writing to pause the review of your main application. You can only make this request after the EPA has given your application to the panel leader, but before the panel makes its final decisions about your approvals.

The panel can choose whether to pause the review when you ask. If they do pause it, the EPA will tell you and other important people about it. They will let you know the date when the panel stopped working on your application.

The EPA will also tell anyone they’ve asked for advice or reports if those haven’t been given yet. They’ll inform any government leaders they’ve asked for recommendations if those haven’t been made. And they’ll tell any people or groups they’ve invited to give comments.

If someone was asked for advice, a report, or a recommendation and they’re told about the pause, they must stop working on your application too.

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Part 2 Fast-track approvals process
Panel consideration of substantive application: Suspension of processing substantive application

64Applicant may request suspension of processing substantive application

  1. An applicant may make a written request to the EPA that processing of their substantive 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 the panel convener under section 46; and
    1. the time when a panel makes its decisions under section 81 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 applicant; and
        1. if advice or a report has been requested from a person under section 51 and is yet to be provided to the EPA, that person; and
          1. if a recommendation has been requested from the relevant chief executive under section 48 and is yet to be made, the relevant chief executive; and
            1. if persons or groups have been invited to provide comments under section 35 or 53, those persons or groups.

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

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