Original EA Amendment

2.5. Assessment Level Decision

Under s.228 of the EP Act, the administering authority must decide whether the proposed amendment

is a minor or a major amendment.

To support the assessment level decision for this application, an assessment against the minor

amendment criteria has been undertaken and provided in Table 13. As referenced in the Department’s

‘Major and Minor Amendments Guideline’ (ESR/2015/1684), it is noted that an amendment application

that is not considered a minor amendment, shall be considered a major amendment. WTS considers

the proposed amendment to be a minor amendment supported by the thresholds detailed in Table 13.

Table 13. Minor amendment criteria

Criteria

Justification

(a) Is not a change to a standard condition identified in the

EA as a standard condition, other than a condition

Criteria satisfied – The EA contains site specific

conversion or replacing a standard condition with a

conditions

standard condition for the ERA; and

Criteria satisfied. The proposed amendments do

not significantly increase the level of

environmental harm. Refer to Section 6 for the

(b) Does not significantly increase the level of

impact assessment and Section 7 for the

environmental harm caused by the relevant activity; and

environmental risk assessment.

Management plans are proposed as conditions

to manage impacts associated with MSES

in a way likely to result in significantly different impacts on

Criteria satisfied. The proposed amendments will

environmental values than the impacts previously permitted

not change rehabilitation objectives in the EA

under the EA; and

Criteria satisfied. The proposed amendments will

(d) Does not significantly increase the scale or intensity of

not increase currently approved processing rates

the relevant activity; and

associated with the relevant activity (Schedule 2-

31)

(e) Does not relate to a new relevant resource tenure for

the EA that is—

(i) a new mining lease; or

Criteria satisfied. The proposed amendments do

(ii) a new petroleum lease; or

not relate to a new relevant resource tenure for

(iii) a new geothermal lease under the Geothermal Energy

the EA

Act 2010; or

(iv) a new greenhouse gas injection and storage lease

under the Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2009; and

(f) Increases the existing surface area for the relevant

Criteria satisfied. The EA amendment proposes

activity by 10% or less; and

to increase the existing surface area by less

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