P-EA-100527093 - EA Permit - Noosa Shire Council - 20231108 (3)

                                                                                                           Permit
                                                              Environmental authority P-EA-100527093

    b) another quality of the environment identified and declared to be an environmental value under an
       environmental protection policy or regulation.

Event-based actions refers to management responses (e.g., an increased level of monitoring) initiated in
following 'an event', with the event being defined in the dredge management plan (e.g., 'an event' can occur
when monitoring results indicate an exceedance of an adopted trigger value, or a non-compliance with the
environmental authority condition).

Groundwater means water that occurs naturally in, or is introduced artificially into, an aquifer

Land means any land, whether above or below the ordinary high-water mark at spring tides (i.e., includes tidal
land).

Marine megafauna means cetaceans, pinnipeds, sirenians, marine and estuarine reptiles, large fishes such as
billfishes, tunas, sharks and rays and seabirds.

Measures has the broadest interpretation and includes:
   a) Procedural measures such as standard operating procedures for dredging operations,
      environmental risk assessments, management actions, Departmental directions and relevant
      guidelines.
   b) Physical measures such as plant, equipment, physical objects (such as bunding, containment systems
      etc.), ecosystem monitoring and bathymetric surveys.

Monitoring results includes analysis results (laboratory and in situ) and monitoring reports.


NATA means National Association of Testing Authorities.

New dredging activity means a dredging activity that is currently not underway, the next stage of a dredging
campaign that is currently underway, or a discretely separate area in a larger dredge campaign that is currently
underway.

Nominated delegate means another government agency that provides services to the administering
authority.

Placed means the deposition of the material removed from the dredge basin and includes any works
undertaken for dewatering and treatment of the material.

Prescribed water contaminants means contaminants listed within Schedule 10 of the Environmental
Protection Regulation 2019.

Records include breach notifications, written procedures, analysis results, monitoring reports and monitoring
programs required under a condition of this authority.

Reference site refers to a monitoring site located not only beyond the anticipated zone of influence of a
sediment plume, but also beyond other sources of environmental impacts, and has site pairing with one or
more test sites or sentinel sites. In monitoring programs, reference sites serve the same role as do control
sites but can generally be suitable for a broader set of parameters.

Release of a contaminant into the environment means to:
   a) deposit, discharge, emit or disturb the contaminant


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