Environmental Protection Amendment Regulations 2005 (WA)

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ENVIRONMENT

EV301*

Environmental Protection Act 1986

Environmental Protection Amendment

Regulations 2005

Made by the Lieutenant-Governor and Administrator in Executive

Council.

" 53, 54A, 70, 80 or 85B, ";

1.            Citation

These regulations are the Environmental Protection Amendment
Regulations 2005.

2.            The regulations amended

The amendments in these regulations are to the Environmental
Protection Regulations 1987*.

[* Reprint 5 as at 11 March 2005.]

3.             Regulation 5D amended

(1) Regulation 5D(1a)(b) is amended as follows:

(a) by deleting "53, 70 or 80," and inserting instead —

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(b) by deleting "waste consisting of tailings, bitterns, water

to allow mining of ore or flyash" and inserting

instead -

Part 2 waste ".

(2) After regulation 51)(5) the following subregulation is
inserted -

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(6) In this regulation and Schedule 4 -

"Part 2 waste" means waste consisting of—

(a) tailings; (b) bitterns;

(c) water to allow mining of ore;

(d) flyash;or

(e) waste water from a desalination plant.

4.            Schedule 1 amended

Schedule 1 is amended by inserting the following items in the appropriate numerical positions -

54A	Water desalination plant: premises at	10 gigalitres
which salt is extracted from water	or more per
if—	year

(a)	waste water is discharged into marine waters; and
(b)	density greater than the average the discharged waste water has a water at the discharge site.

85B Water desalination plant: premises at 0.50 gigalitres

which salt is extracted from water if	or more per
waste water is discharged onto land or	year
into waters (other than marine waters).

5.           Schedule 4 amended

(1) Schedule 4 Part 1 is amended by inserting the following item
after the item for Category 54 -

"

Category 54A Not more than 20 gigalitres per year 20

More than 20 but not more than 40 gigalitres per year	50
More than 40 gigalitres per year	100

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(2) The heading to Schedule 4 Part 2 is deleted and the following

heading is inserted instead —

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Part 2 — Part 2 waste

By Command of the Lieutenant-Governor and Administrator,

G. M. PIKE, Clerk of the Executive Council.