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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

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

61: EPA may direct suspension in processing substantive application

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“EPA can pause your application if you don't pay the fees”

If you don’t pay the costs that the EPA can recover, they might pause the processing of your application. The EPA will let the panel, local authorities, you (the applicant), and other important people know about this pause.

If you later pay the costs, the EPA will start working on your application again. They will tell everyone who was informed about the pause that they’ve started working on it again.

The panel and some other people involved must stop working on your application when the EPA tells them to pause. They’ll start working on it again when the EPA says it’s okay to continue.

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

61EPA may direct suspension in processing substantive application

  1. If the applicant has not paid the costs recoverable by the EPA, the EPA may suspend the processing of the application and must give notice of the suspension to—

  2. the panel; and
    1. the relevant local authorities; and
      1. 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. If the applicant subsequently pays the costs recoverable by the EPA, the EPA must resume processing the substantive application and must give notice of the resumption to the persons notified of the suspension.

              2. The panel and a person referred to in subsection (1)(d) or (e) must—

              3. suspend processing of the substantive application if they receive a notice under subsection (1); and
                1. resume processing of the application if they receive a notice under subsection (2).

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