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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 for a while by making a written request."

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You can ask the EPA to stop working on your application for a while. You must make this request in writing. You can only make this request after the EPA has sent your application to the panel convener under section 46 and before the panel makes its decisions under section 81.

If you make this request, the panel might stop working on your application. The EPA will tell you and some other people when the panel stops working on your application. These people might include someone who is writing a report for the EPA under section 51, a chief executive who is making a recommendation under section 48, or people who are giving comments under section 35 or 53.

Some people who get this notice must also stop working on your application. This includes people who are writing reports or making recommendations for the EPA.

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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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