RFI - Attachment 2 - Permit Environmental Authority No. EPPR01855314

                                                                                                           Permit
                                                               Environmental authority – EPPR01855314



Definitions
Key terms and/or phrases used in this document are defined in this section. Where a term is not defined, the
definition in the Environmental Protection Act 1994, its regulations or environmental protection policies must be
used. If a word remains undefined it has its ordinary meaning.



Activity means the environmentally relevant activities, whether resource activities or prescribed activities,
to which the environmental authority relates.

Administering authority means the Department of Environment and Heritage Protection or its successor
or predecessors.

Appropriately qualified person(s) means a person or persons who has professional qualifications, training,
skills or experience relevant to the nominated subject matter and can give authoritative assessment, advice
and analysis to performance relative to the subject matter using the relevant protocols, standards, methods or
literature.
Background means noise, measured in the absence of the noise under investigation, as LA90,T being the A-
weighted sound pressure level exceeded for 90 per cent of the time period of not less than 15 minutes, using
Fast response.

Boundary means within one metre of the cadastral boundary of the site.

Clay lined means a landfill lined with compacted clay at least 600 mm thick achieving a maximum
permeability of 1 x 10-9 metres per second or alternate such as an engineered geosynthetic agreed in writing
as equivalent in performance by the administering authority.

Commercial place means a place used as a workplace, an office or for business or commercial purposes
and includes a place within the curtilage of such a place reasonably used by persons at that place.

Double lined means a landfill lined with compacted clay at least 600mm thick achieving a maximum
permeability of 1 x 10-9 metres per second overlain with 1.5mm HDPE synthetic liner or alternate double
liner system agreed in writing as equivalent in performance by the administering authority.

General waste means waste other than regulated waste.
Groundwater monitoring system means a system of groundwater monitoring devices, such as monitoring
bores, used to provide data in respect to the level and quality of groundwater in the uppermost aquifer where
the location of the groundwater monitoring devices is such that comparisons of groundwater quality and
groundwater level can be made between groundwater flowing from beneath the site (down-gradient flow) of
the activity and groundwater flowing towards the site of the activity (up-gradient flow).

HDPE means high density polyethylene.
"impulse adjustment" if impulsiveness is a significant characteristic of the sound within a measurement time
interval, an adjustment shall be applied. If impulsive components are clearly audible, the adjustment will be 5
dB (A). If the components are only just detectable, an adjustment of 2 dB (A) will be appropriate.
Intrusive noise means noise that, because of its frequency, duration, level, tonal characteristics,
impulsiveness or vibration:

     1.      is clearly audible to, or can be felt by, an individual; and



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