Environment Plans such These requirements ensure that an as gazettal instruments, Environment Plan that proposes bioregional plans, plans unacceptable impacts to the of management and environment cannot meet the criteria EPBC Act guidance for acceptance. documents. In undertaking assessments, NOPSEMA will have regard NOPSEMA Responsibilities: Mechanisms to ensure NOPSEMA’s to relevant policy responsibilities are met: Section 341V of the EPBC Act requires documents, gazettal that a Commonwealth agency must The Environment Plan content instruments, bioregional not authorise any person to do requirements of the OPGGS(E) plans of management anything that may contravene a plan Regulations [regulations 13 and and guidance documents on made Section 341S for 14] ensure that potential impacts the DoE website. management of a Commonwealth to the environment are Heritage place. If there is no section appropriately identified, 341S plan, a Commonwealth agency evaluated and mitigated to levels must take all reasonable steps to that are acceptable and ALARP. ensure that acts relating to the NOPSEMA must not accept an property are not inconsistent with the Environment Plan if the Commonwealth Heritage management requirements of the OPGGS(E) principles (Schedule 7B, EPBC Regulations have not been met Regulations). [sub-regulation 10A]. Section 362 of the EPBC Act requires that a Commonwealth agency must not perform its functions or exercise its powers inconsistently with a management plan that is in operation for a reserve. If there is no plan in operation, Section 357 requires a Commonwealth agency to not exercise its powers or perform its functions inconsistently with the Australian IUCN reserve management principles (Schedule 8, EPBC Regulations) or a management plan previously in operation. The OPGGS(E) Regulations contain clear acceptance criteria against which NOPSEMA must assess all Environment Plans. NOPSEMA must not accept an Environment Plan that does not meet these criteria. In particular NOPSEMA is unable to accept an Environment Plan that does not demonstrate that impacts to the environment will be reduced to an acceptable level.
Environment Plans such as gazettal instruments, bioregional plans, plans of management and EPBC Act guidance documents. In undertaking assessments, NOPSEMA will have regard to relevant policy documents, gazettal instruments, bioregional plans of management and guidance documents on the DoE website. These requirements ensure that an Environment Plan that proposes unacceptable impacts to the environment cannot meet the criteria for acceptance. NOPSEMA Responsibilities: Section 341V of the EPBC Act requires that a Commonwealth agency must not authorise any person to do anything that may contravene a plan made Section 341S for management of a Commonwealth Heritage place. If there is no section 341S plan, a Commonwealth agency must take all reasonable steps to ensure that acts relating to the property are not inconsistent with the Commonwealth Heritage management principles (Schedule 7B, EPBC Regulations). Section 362 of the EPBC Act requires that a Commonwealth agency must not perform its functions or exercise its powers inconsistently with a management plan that is in operation for a reserve. If there is no plan in operation, Section 357 requires a Commonwealth agency to not exercise its powers or perform its functions inconsistently with the Australian IUCN reserve management principles (Schedule 8, EPBC Regulations) or a management plan previously in operation. The OPGGS(E) Regulations contain clear acceptance criteria against which NOPSEMA must assess all Environment Plans. NOPSEMA must not accept an Environment Plan that does not meet these criteria. In particular NOPSEMA is unable to accept an Environment Plan that does not demonstrate that impacts to the environment will be reduced to an acceptable level. Mechanisms to ensure NOPSEMA’s responsibilities are met: The Environment Plan content requirements of the OPGGS(E) Regulations [regulations 13 and 14] ensure that potential impacts to the environment are appropriately identified, evaluated and mitigated to levels that are acceptable and ALARP. NOPSEMA must not accept an Environment Plan if the requirements of the OPGGS(E) Regulations have not been met [sub-regulation 10A].
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