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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

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

66: Return of substantive application

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"What happens to your application if it's been on hold for 50 working days"

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If 50 working days pass since your substantive application was suspended under section 64(3), a panel must make a decision. They decide whether to return your application to you or start processing it again. The panel must tell you and others involved in writing about what they decide.

If the panel decides to return your application, they must give you written reasons why. If you send the application back to the EPA, it is treated as a new application. The EPA can suspend your application more than once, but they cannot suspend it for more than 50 working days in total.

You will be notified in writing about the panel's decision, along with the people or groups who were told about your application under section 64(4) and the relevant agencies. The panel's decision is an important step in the process of your substantive application.

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Panel consideration of substantive application: Suspension of processing substantive application

66Return of substantive application

  1. This section applies if 50 working days have elapsed since the processing of a substantive application was suspended under section 64(3).

  2. A panel must decide whether to—

  3. return the substantive application to the applicant; or
    1. resume processing the application.

      1. The decision of a panel under this section must be notified in writing to—

      2. the persons or groups notified under section 64(4); and
        1. the relevant administering agencies.

          1. If a panel decides to return the substantive application, it must be returned together with written reasons for its return.

          2. If a substantive application that has been returned is lodged again with the EPA, the application must be treated as a new application.

          3. If a substantive application is suspended more than once, the total number of working days during which processing is suspended must not be more than 50.

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