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Environmental authority - Etheridge Shire Council - Queensland

Description

You will need an environmental authority (EA) to undertake an environmentally relevant activity (ERA). ERA's are activities that have potential environmental risks. The EA will licence you to operate the ERA.

The 3 categories of ERA are:

  • prescribed ERAs including industrial or some intensive agricultural activities
  • resource activities including mining, petroleum, geothermal or greenhouse gas storage activities
  • agricultural ERAs including cattle grazing, horticulture or cultivation of another crop carried out in the Great Barrier Reef catchment.

Who you need to apply to will be determined by your ERA. More information on who your administering authority will be based on your activity is available here.

Service type

Licence

A licence defines the need to obtain recognition / certification and registration to undertake a certain business activity.

Eligibility requirements

To be eligible for an EA, you must:

  • be registered as a suitable operator
  • if an ERA standard is applicable, meet the standard conditions and eligibility criteria prescribed to your specific ERA.

You will also need a development approval if you are conducting the following activities:

  • changing the type of activity
  • re-establishing an ERA activity that was abandoned
  • changing the scale or intensity of activity
  • carrying out building work
  • carrying out plumbing or drainage work.

The council is required to monitor the operational standards of your ERA through routine inspections. The expected frequency of these inspections will depend on the type of ERA and its level of compliance.

Duration

As specified

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Amount Description
Apply Application All $261.00

Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All -

Asphalt manufacturing:

  • under 1000 tonnes of asphalt per annum - $207.00
  • over 1000 tonnes of asphalt per annum - $2,646.00

Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All -

Plastic product manufacturing:

  • manufacturing in a year, a total of 50 tonnes or more of plastic product, other than a plastic product mentioned below - $2,315.00
  • manufacturing in a year, a total of 5 tonnes or more of carbon fibre, epoxy coating, foam, foam sandwich, mattings, resin, composite plastics or rigid fibre-reinforced plastics - $4,463.00

Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All $207.00

Metal forming. Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All -

Metal recovery:

  • recovering less than 100 tonnes of metal in a day - $621.00
  • recovering more than 100 tonnes or more of metal in a day, or 10,000 tonnes or more of metal product in a year, and carrying out the relevant activity without using a fragmentiser - $1,571.00
  • recovering more than 100 tonnes or more of metal in a day, or 10,000 tonnes or more of metal product in a year, and carrying out the relevant activity using a fragmentiser - $4,216.00

Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All -

Surface coating:

  • anodising, electroplating, enamelling, galvanising or using (1 to 100 tonnes), in a year - $827.00
  • coating, painting or powder coating (1 to 100 tonnes), in a year - $207.00

Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All $1406.00

Boat maintenance or repair. Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All $207.00

Waste incineration and thermal treatment (incinerating or thermally treating waste vegetation, clean paper or cardboard). Fees for 2025-26

Forms

Transfer process

Transfer

You can apply to transfer an environmental authority for a prescribed activity but you cannot transfer an EA for a resource activity. You can only transfer an EA to a suitable operator.

Administering agency

Etheridge Shire Council

Contact details

Contact Email, Phone and Address Details for this service in simple two column table format, header then data.