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Environmental authority - Queensland

Description

You will need an environmental authority (EA) to undertake an environmentally relevant activity (ERA). The EA will licence you to operate the ERA.

The 3 categories of ERA are:

  • prescribed ERAs (e.g. industrial activities, intensive animal activities or new horticulture or cropping activities in Great Barrier Reef catchments)
  • resource activities (e.g. mining, petroleum, geothermal or greenhouse gas storage activities)
  • agricultural ERAs (e.g. grazing and growing bananas and sugarcane).

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.

Duration

As specified

Fees

Fees Details for this service in table format.

Task Type Business Structure Description
Apply Application All

You can find the current fees here.

Transfer process

Transfer

You can apply to transfer an EA 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

Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation

Contact details

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