DAForm1_AttachmenttoEA.01_signed

                                                                           Application form
                                                                            Environmental Protection Act 1994


    Development application Form 1 - Application details—attachment for an
                                application for an environmental authority
This form is to be attached to the Development application Form 1 - Application details when making a development
application for prescribed environmentally relevant activities (ERAs). Under section 115 of the Environmental Protection Act
1994 (EP Act) the development approval (DA) application is taken to be an application for an environmental authority (EA)
for the prescribed ERAs.


It is recommended that prior to making an application for an environmentally relevant activity (ERA), you read the
information on what to provide with an application. This information is located on the Business Queensland
website at www.business.qld.gov.au (use the search term “Environmental licence”). This website also has a
diagnostic tool called the “forms and fees finder” which will help identify any fees and supporting information you
need to make an application.

Important notes:
   The application can’t be to dredge or extract more than 10,000 tonnes of material a year in the North
      Stradbroke Island region. This is prohibited development under the Planning Regulation 2017.
   All applicants must be registered as suitable operators1. A suitable operator is a person or a corporation
      assessed under section 318I of the EP Act as being suitable to carry out an ERA and is listed on the
      suitable operator register2.
   If more than one ERA is being applied for, the ERAs must be carried out as part of a single integrated
      operation. ERAs are carried out as a single integrated operation if::
          •  the ERAs will be carried out under the day to day management of a single responsible individual (e.g.
             a site manager or operations manager); and
        • all of the ERAs are operationally interrelated, that is, the operation cannot function without all of the
             ERAs. Separate applications will need to be made for the ERAs that cannot be carried out as a single
             integrated operation; and
        • the ERA/s are, or will be, carried out at one or more places; and
        • the places where the ERAs will be carried out are close enough to make the integrated day to day
             management of the activities feasible.
      All the ERAs that will be on the EA must be prescribed ERAs. Prescribed ERAs are ERAs listed in schedule
       2 of the Environmental Protection Regulation 2019.



1   Your EA application must be refused if you are not a registered suitable operator when the application is decided. To
    become a registered suitable operator, apply using the form “Application to be a registered suitable operator -
    ESR/2015/1771” (available at www.qld.gov.au, using the publication number ESR/2015/1771 as a search term).
2   The register is available on the Queensland Government website at www.qld.gov.au, using the search term “suitable
    operator register”.




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