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3. LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK FOR AIR QUALITY

3.1       Environmental authority

The existing waste facility operates under Environmental authority EPPR01855314 (Department of Environment
and Science, 2024), which includes the following Environmentally Relevant Activities (ERAs):

      •   ERA 54(2)(c)

      •   ERA 60(1)(a)

      •   ERA 62(1)(b)

      •   ERA 62(1)(c)

      •   ERA 62(2)

The proposed composting activities fall under ERA 53(a) – Organic material processing by composting and
therefore require an EA Amendment.


3.2       EP Act and Air EPP

Management of the air environment in Queensland is addressed under two key publications, the overarching
Environmental Protection Act 1994 (EP Act) which outlines fundamental principles, objectives, and powers related
to environmental regulation, including air quality management and the subordinate regulation to the EP Act, the
Environmental Protection Regulation 2019 (EP Regulation) which elaborates how the principles and objectives of
the EP Act are to be implemented and enforced.

The EP Act gives the Department of Environment, Tourism, Science, and Innovation (DETSI) the power to create
Environmental Protection Policies that identify, and aim to protect, environmental values of the atmosphere that
are conducive to the health and well-being of humans and biological integrity. The specific policy relating to air
quality is The Environmental Protection (Air) Policy and its amendment the Environmental Protection (Air)
Amendment Policy 2024 (Air EPP).

The objective of the Air EPP is:

...to identify the environmental values of the air environment to be enhanced or protected and to achieve the
objective of the Environmental Protection Act 1994, i.e. ecologically sustainable development.

The environmental values to be enhanced or protected under the Air EPP are the qualities of the environment that
are conducive to:

      •   Protecting health and biodiversity of ecosystems;

      •   Human health and wellbeing;

      •   Protecting the aesthetics of the environment, including the appearance of building structures and other
          property; and

      •   Protecting agricultural use of the environment.

Section 8 of the Air EPP defines the management hierarchy to be implemented to the extent that is reasonable to
do so for emissions that affect, or may affect, an environmental value, as having the following order of preference:
avoid emissions e.g. using technology that avoids air emissions; recycles air emissions e.g. re-using air emissions
in another industrial process; minimises air emissions e.g. using technology, materials or industrial processes that




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