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METROPOLITAN COAL PROJECT INDEPENDENT ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT Figure 1: Metropolitan Coal Project Surface Facilities Area Workshop and Store Settlement Ponds Coal Handling and Preparation Plant Product Coal Stockpile Portal and Winder ROM Coal Stockpile Administration Buildings Replacement Drift Portal Haul Road Product Coal Conveyor Turkey Nest Dam 11 trevor brown & associates applied environmental management consultants aemc
3. Approvals, Licenses and Leases METROPOLITAN COAL PROJECT INDEPENDENT ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT Until recently, Metropolitan Colliery and most other coal mines in the Southern Coalfield operated without development consent as the passage of the Environmental Protection and Assessment Act 1979 (EP&A Act) was accompanied by model transitional provisions, that meant existing coal mines did not need to obtain development consent, provided that those provisions were adopted in the relevant Local Environment Plan (LEP). Provisions adopted in the Wollongong LEP meant that Metropolitan Coal was able to continue to operate without development consent. In May 2005, the State Environmental Planning Policy (Major Projects) 2005 was gazetted and established that all development which, in the opinion of the Minister for Planning is "development for the purpose of coal mining" is declared to be a "major project", to which the new Part 3A of the EP&A Act applied. The State Environment Planning Policy (SEPP) established a 5 year transitional period during which all mines in NSW that did not have an existing development consent, were required to obtain a Project Approval under Part 3A of the EP&A Act. When Part 3A of the EP&A Act was passed in August 2005 it included amendments to the Mining Act 1992 that removed an exemption under section 74(1) of the Mining Act, whereby existing mines operating under a mining lease did not require new or amended development consents for new or expanded mining operations within the area of the lease. Transitional provisions associated with the amendments provided a 5 year timeframe for the implementation of this change that expired on 16 December 2010. Due to the implementation of the Major Projects SEPP and the amendments to the Mining Act, all existing underground coal mines operating in NSW, including Metropolitan Colliery, were required to obtain Project Approval from the Minister for Planning under Part 3A of the EP&A Act by 16 December 2010. 3.1 Project Approval Project Approval 08_0149 for the Metropolitan Coal Project was granted under by the Minister for Planning on 22 June 2009 under Part 3A of the EP&A Act. In June 2010, Metropolitan Coal submitted the Metropolitan Mine Replacement Drift Construction Modification Environmental Assessment (Metropolitan Coal, 2010a) to the NSW Minister for Planning under Section 75W of the EP&A Act, to modify the Project to allow for the additional construction of a replacement underground drift, including construction of a new drift portal at the mine’s Major Surface Facilities Area. The Modification to the Project Approval was granted in September 2010. On 2 July 2011 a Notice of Modification under 75W of the EP&A Act was granted in relation to road transport of coal to Coalcliff Coke Works. 12 trevor brown & associates applied environmental management consultants aemc
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