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WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 1250E Criteria for deciding application

WATER ACT 2000 - SECT 1250E

Criteria for deciding application

1250E Criteria for deciding application

In deciding whether to grant or refuse the application, the chief executive must consider the application together with—

(a) if additional information has been given to the chief executive under section 111 as applied by section 1250D(4)—the additional information; and
(b) all properly made submissions about the application in response to the notice of the application published under section 112 as applied by section 1250D(4); and
(c) existing water entitlements and authorities to take or interfere with water; and
(d) any environmental assessments carried out in relation to the mining tenure, including—
(i) any conditions imposed on the mining tenure or on the environmental authority granted in relation to the mining tenure; and
(ii) any report prepared by the Coordinator-General under the State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971 , section 34D evaluating the EIS prepared in relation to the mining tenure; and
(e) any information about the effects of taking, or interfering with, water on natural ecosystems; and
(f) any information about the effects of taking, or interfering with, water on the physical integrity of watercourses, lakes, springs and aquifers; and
(g) strategies for the management of impacts on underground water, including the impacts of dewatering; and
(h) strategies and policies for the relevant coastal zone; and
(i) the public interest.