New South Wales Consolidated Acts

SYDNEY WATER ACT 1994 - SECT 24

24 Approval of methodology for ecological risk assessment

(1) Before the Corporation submits a proposed methodology to the Environment Protection Authority for approval for the purposes of section 23 (2) (d), the Corporation must:

(a) place the proposed methodology on display for public comment for a period of 30 days after the date of publication of the notice referred to in paragraph (b), and

(b) by notice published in a newspaper circulating throughout New South Wales, specify the place or places at which copies of the proposed methodology may be inspected and the address to which public comments concerning the methodology may be directed.

(2) Any person may, within the period of 30 days referred to in subsection (1) (a), or such longer period as may be specified in the notice, direct comments concerning the proposed methodology to the Corporation.

(3) A methodology must be approved by the Environment Protection Authority within 30 days after the Corporation has provided the Authority with the proposed methodology that has been placed on display and copies of any public comments received on that methodology.

(4) In approving a methodology, the Environment Protection Authority is to have regard to any public comments concerning the proposed methodology that have been provided to it and made in accordance with this section.