Bill
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Cost Recovery) Bill 2014
passed, as at 2014-06-30. Environment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-05-14
- second reading — 2014-05-14
- second reading — 2014-05-28
- second reading — 2014-05-28
- third reading — 2014-05-28
- introduced — 2014-06-16
- second reading — 2014-06-16
- second reading — 2014-06-24
- second reading — 2014-06-24
- third reading — 2014-06-24
- passed — 2014-06-24
- royal assent — 2014-06-30
Divisions
- Alex Gallacher As no amendments to the bill have been circulated, I shall call the minister to move the third reading unless any senator requires that the bill be considered in Committee of the Whole. Mathias Cormann I move: That the bill be now read a third time. Alex Gallacher The question is that the bill now be read a third time. — 2014-06-24, Senate: affirmative, ayes 40, noes 8
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-05-14.
The bill would let the government charge fees for environmental assessments under the EPBC Act.
Fees would be set in regulations, except for assessments by an inquiry or strategic assessment, which the minister would determine.
The bill also creates a formal process for action management plans, allowing fees to be charged when a person submits a plan after approval.
- Allows cost recovery for environmental impact assessments and strategic assessments.
- Lets regulations specify fees, administrative requirements, payment processes, refunds, exemptions and waivers.
- Permits a person to elect to submit an action management plan after the minister approves the action.
- Allows fees for assessing and approving action management plans and their variations.
People and organisations that submit environmental impact assessments, strategic assessments or action management plans under the EPBC Act.
Sources
em
billhome
frl act