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ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND POLLUTION CONTROL ACT 1994 - SCHEDULE 2 - Level 2 Activities

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND POLLUTION CONTROL ACT 1994 - SCHEDULE 2

- Level 2 Activities

SCHEDULE 2 - Level 2 Activities

Sections 3 and 11

1.    Petroleum and Chemical
(a) Chemical Works: the conduct of works with a total processing capacity of 200 tonnes or more per year at which one or more of the following operations are carried out:
(i) manufacture (through chemical reaction) of any inorganic chemical, including sulphuric acid, inorganic fertilisers, sodium silicate, lime or other calcium compound;
(ii) manufacture (through chemical reaction) or processing of any organic chemical or chemical product or petrochemical, including the separation of such materials into different products by distillation or other means.
(b) Coal Processing Works: the conversion of coal into a gaseous, liquid or solid product.
(c) Oil Refineries: the conduct of works at which crude petroleum oil or shale oil is refined, at which lubricating oil is produced or at which used oil is refined or reprocessed by filtration or physical or chemical separation.
(d) Wood Preservation Works: the conduct of works for the treatment or preservation of timber by chemicals (including chemicals containing copper, chromium, arsenic or creosote).
2.    Manufacturing and Mineral Processing
(a) Cement Works: the conduct of works for the use of argillaceous and calcareous materials in the production of cement clinker or the grinding of cement clinker.
(b) Ceramic Works: the conduct of works for the production of any products such as bricks, tiles, pipes, pottery goods, refractories or glass that are manufactured or are capable of being manufactured in furnaces or kilns fired by any fuel, being works with a total capacity for the production of such products of 200 tonnes or more per year.
(c) Ferrous and Non-ferrous Metal Melting: the melting of ferrous or non-ferrous metal in a furnace or furnaces that alone or in aggregate have the capacity to melt 500 kilograms or more of metal in a working day of 8 hours.
(d) Metallurgical Works: the conduct of works at which ores are smelted or reduced to produce metal.
(e) Mineral Works: the conduct of works for processing mineral ores, sands or earths processing 1 000 tonnes or more per year of raw materials.
(f) Pulp and Paper Works: the conduct of works at which paper pulp or paper is manufactured or is capable of being manufactured.
(g) Wood Processing Works: the conduct of works (other than works at a builders supply yard, home improvement centre or firewood depot) at which timber is sawn, cut, compressed, milled, machined or kiln-dried, being works with a total production of 1 000 cubic metres or more per year.
(h) Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Factories: the works involving bleaching, dyeing or printing of yarns, threads, fabrics or other textiles and capable of consuming more than 100 kilolitres of water in a working day of 8 hours.
(i) Woodchip Mills: works involving processing of trees or parts of trees to form woodchips which have a production capacity of 1 000 tonnes or more per year, but excluding:
(i) mobile woodchippers while operating in the same forest harvest area from which the trees or parts of trees being processed were obtained; and
(ii) mobile woodchippers which are moved regularly from sawmill to sawmill to chip sawmill residues produced by those mills.
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3.    Waste Treatment and Disposal
(a) Wastewater Treatment Works: the conduct of wastewater treatment works that involve the discharge of treated or untreated sewage, septic tank effluent or industrial or commercial wastewater to land or water, being works with a design capacity to treat an average dry-weather flow of 100 kilolitres or more per day of sewage or wastewater.
(ab) Waste Tyre Storage Depots: the conduct of depots for the storage of waste tyres, being depots which are designed to store, or are likely to store, 100 tonnes or more of waste tyres.
(b) Waste Depots: the conduct of depots for the reception, storage, treatment or disposal of waste other than–
(i) temporary storage at the place at which the waste is produced while awaiting transport to another place; or
(ia) storage, treatment or disposal of clean fill type 1 or clean fill type 2; or
(ii) storage, treatment or disposal of domestic waste at residential premises; or
(iii) waste transfer stations–
and which are designed to receive, or are likely to receive, 100 tonnes or more of waste per year.
(c) Waste Transport Business: the transport, whether or not for fee or reward, of any controlled waste to Tasmania from another State or a Territory or from Tasmania to another State or a Territory.
(d) Resource recovery: the conduct of works for –
(i) the production of compost or mushroom substrate, being works with a production capacity of 100 tonnes per year or more, other than –
(A) backyard composting for domestic use; and
(B) on-farm composting for use on agricultural land having the same owner as the land on which the compost is produced; and
(C) works in respect of silage for use on agricultural land; or
(ii) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  
(iii) anaerobic digesters with a production capacity of 100 or more tonnes per year of solid or liquid fertiliser product.
4.    Food Production and Animal and Plant Product Processing
(a) Abattoirs or Slaughterhouses: the conduct of meat processing within the meaning of the Primary Produce Safety Act 2011 for producing 100 tonnes or more of meat or meat products per year.
(b) Breweries and Distilleries: the conduct of works for the production of beer by infusion, boiling or fermentation, or spirits by distillation, being works with a capacity to consume 100 kilolitres or more of water in a working day of 8 hours.
(c) Fish Processing: the conduct of works for scaling, gilling, gutting, filleting, smoking, drying or otherwise processing fish for sale, other than by freezing, chilling or packing, and in which 100 tonnes or more of product per year are produced.
(d) Milk Processing Works: the conduct of works at which milk is separated, evaporated or otherwise processed for the manufacture of milk powder, cheese, butter, ice cream or other similar dairy products, being works with a processing capacity of 3 000 litres or more of whole milk, skimmed milk, evaporated milk or cream in an 8 hour working day.
(e) Produce Processing Works: the conduct of works for the processing of vegetables, seed, grain, fruit or any other agricultural crop material by deep fat frying or roasting or boiling or drying through application of heat, being works with a processing capacity of 50 kilograms or more per hour.
(f) Rendering or Fat Extraction Works: the conduct of works at which animal, fish or grease trap wastes or other matter is processed or is capable of being processed by rendering or extraction or by some other means to produce tallow or fat or their derivatives or proteinaceous matter, being works with a total processing capacity of 50 kilograms or more per hour where a continuous cooker is used, or 50 kilograms per batch where a batch cooker is used.
(g) Wool Scourers, Tanneries or Fellmongeries: the conduct of works for the scouring of wool or the commercial preservation or treatment or drying of animal skins or hides and producing 100 tonnes or more per year of product.
(h) Finfish farming.
5.    Extractive Activities
(a) Quarries: the extraction of 5,000 cubic metres or more of rock or gravel per year if the extraction –
(i) is the subject of, or requires, a mining lease under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 ; or
(ii) is carried out at a quarry in a State forest, within the meaning of the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 .
(b) Extractive pits: the extraction of 5,000 cubic metres or more of sand or clay per year if the extraction is the subject of, or requires, a mining lease under the Mineral Resources Development Act 1995 .
(c) Mines: the extraction of any minerals producing 1 000 tonnes or more of minerals per year.
6.    Materials Handling
(a) Crushing, Grinding or Milling: processing (by crushing, grinding, milling or separating into different sizes by sieving, air elutriation or in any other manner) of –
(i) chemicals or rubber at a rate of 200 tonnes or more per year; or
(ii) rock, ores or minerals at a rate in excess of 1 000 cubic metres per year.
(b) Coal Handling and Washing: the handling or washing of coal or carbonaceous material by any means of facilities with a total handling or washing capacity of 100 tonnes or more per day.
7.    Other
(a) Fuel Burning: any process or combination of processes involving the use of fuel burning equipment or incineration and where the equipment alone or in aggregate is capable of burning combustible matter at a rate of one tonne or more per hour.
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(c) .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  
(d) Pre-mix Bitumen Plants: works –
(i) in which crushed or ground rock aggregates are mixed, with bituminous or asphaltic materials, and heated, for the purpose of producing heated road-building mixtures; and
(ii) capable of producing more than 1 000 tonnes of material per year.
(e) Conduct of Certain Activities in Waters Within the Limits of the State: the dumping of dredge spoil or the dumping or sinking of boats, aircraft, platforms or other man-made structures and the placement of artificial reefs in waters within the limits of the State.
(f) Wind Energy Facilities: facilities for generating energy through wind with a maximum generating capacity of 30 megawatts or more.