12. Existing EA (2016)

Permit

Environmental authority EPPR0O0439413

 

Definitions

Key terms and/or phrases used in this document are defined in this section and bolded throughout this
document. Applicants should note that 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.

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.

Dredging means to clear out dredge material.
Dredge footprint is the area being dredged including batters.

Dredge material is the sea, river or lake bed material (e.g. stone, gravel, sand, rock, clay, mud, silt and soil) as
it remains in situ, prior to dredging disturbance, within the dredge footprint.

Dredge spoil is dredge material that has been disturbed (i.e. extracted, transported, placed or disposed).
Environmental value —

1. a quality or physical characteristic of the environment that is conducive to ecological health or public
amenity or safety; or

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

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

Measures has the broadest interpretation and includes:

1. procedural measures such as standard operating procedures for dredging operations, environmental
risk assessment, management actions, departmental direction and competency expectations under
relevant guidelines; and

2. physical measures such as plant, equipment, physical objects (such as bunding, containment systems
etc.), ecosystem monitoring and bathymetric surveys.

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.
Noxious means harmful or injurious to health or physical well-being.

Offensive means causing offence or displeasure; is unreasonably disagreeable to the senses; disgusting,
nauseous or repulsive.

Release of a contaminant into the environment means to:
1. deposit, discharge, emit or disturb the contaminant; or
2. cause or allow the contaminant to be deposited, discharged, emitted or disturbed; or

3. fail to prevent the contaminant from being deposited, discharged emitted or disturbed; or

Page 18 of 24 * GK130701 * EM797 « Version 1 Department of Environment and Heritage Protection