Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Port Kembla Gas Terminal) Order 2018 (NSW)

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New South Wales

Environmental Planning and Assessment

Amendment (Port Kembla Gas Terminal)

Order 2018

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

I, the Minister for Planning, in pursuance of sections 5.12 (4) and 5.13 of the Environmental

Planning and Assessment Act 1979, make the following Order.

Dated, this 19th day of June 2018.

ANTHONY ROBERTS, MP

Minister for Planning

Explanatory note

The object of this Order is to declare certain development for the purposes of the Port Kembla Gas Terminal to be State significant infrastructure and critical State significant infrastructure. The relevant development is the construction and operation of the Port Kembla Gas Terminal, being a facility that enables the importation of liquefied natural gas through a carrier vessel to a floating storage and regasification unit at Port Kembla and a pipeline from the floating storage and regasification unit to the existing east coast gas transportation network.

This Order is made under sections 5.12 (4) and 5.13 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act
1979.
Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Port

Kembla Gas Terminal) Order 2018

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1 Name of Order
This Order is the Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Port Kembla
Gas Terminal) Order 2018.

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 5 Critical State significant infrastructure
Insert after clause 9:
10 Port Kembla Gas Terminal

(1)

Development for the purposes of the Port Kembla Gas Terminal, being a facility that enables the importation of liquefied natural gas through a carrier vessel to a floating storage and regasification unit (the FSRU) at Port Kembla and a pipeline from the FSRU to the existing east coast gas transportation network.
(2) The development involves the following:

(a)

demolition, excavation and dredging works for the purposes of removing an existing loading and unloading wharf,
(b) the disposal of excavated and dredged materials,

(c)

the construction of a new berth that will accommodate offloading liquefied natural gas from liquefied natural gas carrier vessels, storing liquefied natural gas in the FSRU and the regasification and delivery of natural gas to shore,

(d)

the construction and operation of a gas pipeline for the transmission of natural gas from the FSRU to the east coast gas transportation network and an associated metering station,

(e)

the operation of the mooring, wharf, liquefied natural gas handling facilities and the FSRU moored in Port Kembla.

(3) Development that is ancillary to any other development in this clause, including the carrying out of works to upgrade or construct access roads, fencing and safety and communications infrastructure.
(4) The development is to be carried out on land in the suburbs of Cringila, Port Kembla and Spring Hill and includes land within the port of Port Kembla (whether terrestrial or underwater).
(5) In this clause, development does not include surveys, sampling (soil, air and water), test drilling and other geotechnical investigations for the purposes of dredging, wharf design and other design and assessment processes associated with the Port Kembla Gas Terminal.

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(a)	demolition, excavation and dredging works for the purposes of removing an existing loading and unloading wharf,
(b)	the disposal of excavated and dredged materials,
(c)	the construction of a new berth that will accommodate offloading liquefied natural gas from liquefied natural gas carrier vessels, storing liquefied natural gas in the FSRU and the regasification and delivery of natural gas to shore,
(d)	the construction and operation of a gas pipeline for the transmission of natural gas from the FSRU to the east coast gas transportation network and an associated metering station,
(e)	the operation of the mooring, wharf, liquefied natural gas handling facilities and the FSRU moored in Port Kembla.
(3)	Development that is ancillary to any other development in this clause, including the carrying out of works to upgrade or construct access roads, fencing and safety and communications infrastructure.
(4)	The development is to be carried out on land in the suburbs of Cringila, Port Kembla and Spring Hill and includes land within the port of Port Kembla (whether terrestrial or underwater).
(5)	In this clause, *development* does not include surveys, sampling (soil, air and water), test drilling and other geotechnical investigations for the purposes of dredging, wharf design and other design and assessment processes associated with the Port Kembla Gas Terminal.