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Wambo Coal AEMR 2010-2011 - Peabody Energy

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aemc<strong>Wambo</strong> <strong>Coal</strong> Mine, Rail Loop and <strong>Coal</strong> LoaderIndependent Environmental Audit – Minister’s Condition of ApprovalSCHEDULE 5 ADDITIONAL PROCEDURES FOR AIR QUALITY & NOISE MANAGEMENTNotify Landowners5/1 If the air dispersion and/or noise model predictions in the documentslisted in condition 2 of schedule 3 identify that the air pollutionand/or noise generated by the development are likely to be greaterthan the air quality and/or noise impact assessment criteria inconditions of schedule 4, then the Applicant shall notify the relevantlandowners and/or existing or future tenants (including tenants ofmine-owned properties) accordingly before it carries out anydevelopment.5/2 If the results of the air quality and/or noise monitoring required inschedule 4 identify that the air pollution and/or noise generated bythe development are greater than the air quality and/or noise impactassessment criteria in schedule 4, then the Applicant shall notify therelevant landowners and/or existing or future tenants (includingtenants of mine-owned properties) at the end of each quarter.5/3 Before carrying out any development, the Applicant shall develop aprocedure in consultation with DECCW and NSW Health andapproved by the Director-General, for notifying landowners andtenants referred to in condition 0. This procedure must ensure that:(a) all existing and future tenants are advised in writing about: air quality impacts likely to occur at the residence during theoperational life of the mine; and likely health and amenity impacts associated with exposureto particulate matter;(b) the written advice in (a) is based on current air qualitymonitoring data, dispersion modelling results, research andliterature; and(c) there is an ongoing process for providing current air qualitymonitoring data, dispersion modelling results, research andliterature to the tenantsIndependent Review5/4 If a landowner considers the development to be exceeding the airquality and/or noise impact assessment criteria listed in schedule 4at his/her dwelling, or at any proposed dwelling on his/her vacantland, then he/she may ask the Applicant for an independent reviewof the air pollution and/or noise impacts of the development onhis/her dwelling, or proposed dwelling.If the Director-General is satisfied that an independent review is Landowner NotificationProcedure – Air Quality, Jun2008Letters to Kannar,Hawkes, Lambkin, Skinner,Kelly, Henderson andHaynes re noise and airimpacts, 20 Jul 2005 Landowner NotificationProcedure – Air Quality, Aug2005 Fact Sheet – Air Quality –Particulate Matter and Health Letters to Residents re FactSheet, 4 Nov 2005 Letter from DoP reLandowner NotificationProcedure, 13 Sep 2005 Letter from DEC reLandowner NotificationProcedure, 7 Sep 2005 Landowner NotificationProcedure -Air Quality, Jun2008<strong>Wambo</strong> Sentinex N21/FenwickResidence Noise Assessment,Global Acoustics, 21 Mar <strong>2011</strong>YesYesOngoingYesYesOngoingWCPL developed a Landowner Notification Procedure that hasbeen implemented to address the requirements of MCoASchedule 5 condition 1.Residents within the area of affectation identified in the EIS havebeen notified in writing of the potential impacts and the avenuesopen to them in relation to acquisition of their properties.Communication with the relevant landholders within the areas ofaffectation in relation to air quality and noise monitoring and theirrights under the acquisition conditions.The Landowner Notification Procedure was prepared andsubmitted to DEC, DoP and NSW Health for review in 2005.NSW Health advised that they would produce a NSW Healthendorsed brochure for distribution to the community.The Landowner Notification Procedure has been implementedand was revised in June 2008.(a)(b)<strong>Wambo</strong> consult regularly with the Fenwick residents inrelation to noise levels and mine operations. Thisconsultation has recently (since April/May <strong>2011</strong>)reduced the complaints from the Fenwicks.An acoustic assessment was conducted to determine ifthe noise levels received at the real-time monitoringlocation at the Fenwick residence was representativetrevor brown & associates 81applied environmental management consultants

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