Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Regulations

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATION 2008 - REG 13

    (1)     A person developing a strategic environmental assessment must, in completing stage B, develop alternatives for the proposal and decide the scope of the strategic environmental assessment by—

        (a)     considering alternatives to the proposal; and

Examples—alternatives

1     alternative siting within the proposed location or at another location

2     alternative uses of the site

3     alternative designs

Note     An example is part of the regulation, is not exhaustive and may extend, but does not limit, the meaning of the provision in which it appears (see Legislation Act, s 126 and s 132).

        (b)     deciding and finalising the scope of the strategic environmental assessment; and

        (c)     preparing a document about the scope of the strategic environmental assessment (a SEA scoping document ).

    (2)     The SEA scoping document must contain the following:

        (a)     the aims and objectives of the strategic environmental assessment;

        (b)     the relevant policies, plans and programs to be considered in the strategic environmental assessment;

        (c)     the methods to be used in the strategic environmental assessment, including—

              (i)     assessment requirements; and

              (ii)     indicators to be used; and

              (iii)     data requirements; and

              (iv)     the range of supporting studies to be considered, or to be commissioned;

        (d)     the key environmental issues to be addressed in the strategic environmental assessment.