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Environmental authority - Gladstone Regional 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 $688.00

Standard application. Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All -

Site-specific application - $688, plus 30% of the annual fee relating to specific application. Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All $740.00

Transitional environmental program (TEP) application. Fees for 2025-26
Apply Application All -

Annual ERA fees:

  • ERA 6 - asphalt manufacturing AES 32 (1000t or more of asphalt) - $9,724.80
  • ERA 12 - plastic product manufacturing (50t or more in a year of plastic product not listed in (2) AES 28) - $8,509.20
  • ERA 12 -  plastic product manufacturing (5t or more of foam, composite plastics or rigid fibre-reinforced plastics AES 54) - $16,410.60
  • ERA 19 - metal forming (hot forming 10,000t or more of metal in a year AES Nil ) - $755.00
  • ERA 38 - surface coating (anodising, electroplating, enamelling, galvanising in a year (a) 1t to 100t AES 10) - $3,039.00
  • ERA 49 - boat maintenance or repair (within 50 metres of bed of naturally occurring surface waters, AES 17 - $5,166.30

Fees for 2025-26
Comply Inspection All $466.00

Re-inspection. Fees for 2025-26
Transfer Transfer All $143.10

Fees for 2025-26
Vary Variation All -

Variation application - $688, plus 30% of the annual fee relating to specific application. Fees for 2025-26
Vary Variation All $346.60

Amendment application. Fees for 2025-26

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

Gladstone Regional Council

Contact details

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