Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Merimbula Sewage Treatment Plant and Ocean Outfall) Order 2016 (NSW)

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment

Amendment (Merimbula Sewage Treatment

Plant and Ocean Outfall) Order 2016

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

I, the Minister for Planning, in pursuance of section 115U (4) of the Environmental Planning and

Assessment Act 1979, make the following Order.

Dated, this 28th day of June 2016.

ROBERT STOKES, MP

Minister for Planning

Explanatory note
The object of this Order is to declare development for the purposes of upgrading the Merimbula Sewage Treatment Plant and the construction of a deep water ocean outfall transfer pipe from that treatment plant to be State significant infrastructure.
This Order is made under section 115U (4) of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment
(Merimbula Sewage Treatment Plant and Ocean Outfall) Order

2016

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Order

This Order is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Merimbula
Sewage Treatment Plant and Ocean Outfall) Order 2016.

2      Commencement

This Order commences on the day on which it is published on the NSW legislation website.

Schedule 1 Amendment of State Environmental Planning
Policy (State and Regional Development) 2011

Schedule 4 State significant infrastructure—specified development on specified land

Insert at the end of Part 2 with appropriate clause numbering:

Merimbula Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrade and Ocean Outfall

(1)

The Merimbula Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrade and Ocean Outfall project is an upgrading of the Merimbula Sewage Treatment Plant and the construction of a deep water ocean outfall transfer pipe from that plant.

(2)

Development for the purposes of the Merimbula Sewage Treatment Plant Upgrade and Ocean Outfall project on land identified as being within the Merimbula Sewage Treatment Plant and Ocean Outfall Site on the State Significant Infrastructure Sites Map including:

(a)	the construction and use of sewage processing systems, and
(b)	the construction and use of a deep water ocean outfall transfer pipe running from the sewage treatment plant mainly underground to a discharge point, being a submerged diffuser located on the seabed up to 6 kilometres from the sewage treatment plant, and
(c)	ancillary development including the erection and use of construction compounds, the installation and use of pumping equipment and the decommissioning of existing exfiltration ponds.